October - Octubre
28 - 30, 2025

CATIE, Turrialba
Costa Rica

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October - Octubre
28 - 30, 2025

CATIE, Turrialba
Costa Rica

Submit your abstract

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  •  Pre-Opening


  • Day 1


  • Day 2


  • Day 3


  • Day 4


  • Where
    Main Hall of the Henry A. Wallace Building, at CATIE

  • Questions and answers from the audience (10 min)
    Where
    Main auditorium Wallace Building.

  • Questions and answers from the audience. 20 minutes.
    Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Where
    Cafeteria

  • Where
    Main Hall of the Henry A. Wallace Building, at CATIE

  • Where
    Main Hall of the Henry A. Wallace Building, at CATIE

  • Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Where
    Main auditorium Wallace Building

  • Moderator: Pablo Imbach
    Where
    Main auditorium Wallace Building

  • Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Moderator: Rolando Cerda and Alejandra Martínez
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Where
    European Community Building meeting room

  • Coffee/cocktail offered by Agroforesta
    Where
    Main hall of the Henry A. Wallace Building, at CATIE.Coffee/cocktail offered by Agroforesta

  • Where
    Club International

  • Where
    Canopy shelter

  • Moderator: Astrid Pulido
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Where
    Canopy shelters

  • Moderator: Astrid Pulido
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Moderator: Roger Madrigal
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Where
    European Community Building meeting room

  • Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Where
    Cafeteria

  • Moderator: Barbara Viguera
    Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Coffee/cocktail offered by the host
    Where
    Special session: Rainwater harvesting project - CATIE - Water harvesting as innovating systems to deal with food and water security in the dry tropics.

  • Moderator: Reinhold Muschler
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Moderator: Leida Mercado
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

  • Moderator: Alejandra Martinez
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Facilitator: Leida Mercado, CATIE
    Where
    Main auditorium of the Henry A. Wallace Building

  • Where
    Auditorium Wallace Building

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    Cafeteria


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Speaker of the Wallace Scientific Conference

Dr. Carlos Manuel Rodríguez will be the keynote speaker of the session titled Finance, investments, and agribusiness to promote adoption and scaling.

He was selected as CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility in June 2020.

Dr. Rodriguez, a Costa Rican national, was a pioneer in the development of Payment for Ecosystem Services and strategies for forest restoration, ocean conservation, and decarbonization. During his three terms as Environment and Energy Minister, Costa Rica doubled the size of its forests, made its electric sector fully renewable, and consolidated a national park system that has made the Central American country a prime ecotourism destination.

Dr. Rodriguez has also founded and served on the board of several environmental NGOs and tropical research institutes. After his second tenure as minister, he was Vice President for Global Policy at Conservation International for 12 years.

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The themes of the sessions of the IX Wallace Scientific Conference

  • Soil Health: the role of healthy soil in supporting resilient agricultural systems.
  • Plant Health: effects of production systems, reduction of pesticides, and agroforestry.
  • Animal Health: impacts of disease prevention, animal welfare, sustainable livestock systems, food safety, and innovation.
  • Ecosystem Health: safeguarding Biodiversity to Sustain Life-Supporting Services and Human Well-Being.
  • One Water for One Health: integrating Holistic Water Management for Human, Animal, and Ecosystem Well-Being.
  • Agri-Food Systems and Human Health: advancing Sustainable Nutrition, and Ensuring Food Safety.


Transversal Themes: integrating Nature based solutions, Climate change, Gender, Rural and Indigenous Perspectives, and Governance to Strengthen the One Health Approach

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About the Conference

Since its inception in 2002, the Wallace Conference has served as a premier forum for high-level discussions on science and technology strategies pertinent to tropical agriculture, natural resource management, and biodiversity conservation. The IX conference aims to build upon the insights and collaborations fostered in previous editions, particularly the 2023 conference, which focused on transforming food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in response to environmental degradation and climate change.

Building upon the rich legacy of the Wallace Scientific Conferences, the upcoming 2025 edition will center on the One Health approach, emphasizing the intricate connections between human, animal, and environmental health. This holistic perspective is crucial for addressing global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water security.

Where

CATIE headquarters
Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica

When

October 28 – 30, 2025

The official language of the Conference will be English, but simultaneous translation (Spanish/English) will be provided. 

ABOUT CATIE

CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) is an academic center for innovation and sustainable development in topics related to agriculture, management, conservation, and sustainable use of natural resources. Our area of influence, by mandate, is the Latin American and Caribbean region. However, our operations and contributions to the region and the world have a history of just over 75 years, initially as the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and since 1973, as CATIE.

In our actions we combine education, research for development, and projection to promote Inclusive Green Development, to increase human well-being and reduce rural poverty.

We are leaders in the integrated management of agriculture and natural resources to address global challenges.

PARTNERS

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world-agroforesty
KOLFACI
SOUTHWEST
Montpellier
EMB COSTA RICA + AECID + CC SAN JOSÉ-01
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OUR CAMPUS

CATIE Air Tour
International Cacao Collection
International Coffee Collection

Located in Turrialba, CATIE’s campus has more than 1000 hectares in the middle of a mountainous landscape, where coffee plantations, agricultural activity, and sugar cane fields abound. The campus has spacious and comfortable facilities for visitors and provides a very secure and peaceful environment. It is also a perfect place to go for a walk or practice sports such as soccer, tennis, swimming, or biking.

Campus
Research
The Lake
Sustainable livestock
Wildlife on Campus
Wildlife on Campus

The Botanical Garden of CATIE is made up of an invaluable collection of genetic material which is conserved for research and education purposes. Housing more than 4000 genetic samples that represent around 400 species of plants from different parts of the world. It is here that you will see different kinds of trees, flowers, and animals. Likewise, you will have the opportunity to try exotic fruits.

Botanical Garden

The International Club is located on our campus. It has two swimming pools, one specifically for children. Also, it has a restaurant and bar service to allow people to enjoy themselves with friends or colleagues. On the back of the building and swimming pool, there is a tennis court for the use of any person interested in playing some tennis surrounded by nature.

International Club

LOCATION

CATIE headquarters
Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica


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When
Sunday to Wednesday
December 23 to 26, 2022
Where
467 Davidson ave
Los Angeles CA 95716
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