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Rio Conventions Pavilion

9-18 October 2012 | Hyderabad, India

Highlights for Thursday, 11 October 2012

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CBD COP 11
CBD COP 11The Rio Conventions Pavilion (RCP) continued on Thursday, 11 October, convening for Tree Diversity Day. The day began with a keynote speech by M.S. Swaminathan, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. During the morning, a panel also convened on tree diversity - its role in CBD programmes for agriculture and forest biodiversity and synergies with other global conventions. In the afternoon, panels convened on: benefits of diversifying and restoring landscape mosaics in the tropics by harnessing tree diversity; diversity for development - human benefits from tree diversity for food, health and nutrition; climate change and biodiversity - interfacing mitigation and adaptation; maintaining diversity from genes to landscapes through conservation and sustainable use; and a synthesis session.
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Tree Diversity at the Interface of the Three Rio Conventions
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L-R: Robert Nasi, CGIAR; Sergio Zelaya, UNCCD Secretariat; Balakrishna Pisupati, National Biodiversity Authority, India; Ivonne Higuero, UNEP; Santiago Carrizosa, UNDP; Oudara Souvannavong, FAO; and Heikki Taivanen, Finnish Environment Institute.
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Tree Diversity Day Moderator Caroline Neeley, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
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M.S. Swaminathan, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
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Robert Nasi, CGIAR
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A participant asks a question to Swaminathan.
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Santiago Carrizosa, UNDP
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CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Robert Nasi, CGIAR, Ravi Prabhu, ICRAF and Pablo Eyzaguirre, Bioversity, sign MOUs for agroforestry partnerships.

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L-R: Eike Luedeling, ICRAF; Tim Christophersen, UNEP; Hesti Lestari Tata, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia; and P.P. Bhojvaid, Forest Research Institute (FRI), India.
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Hesti Lestari Tata, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia
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Bhojvaid, FRI, India
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Peter Bridgewater, former Secretary General for the Ramsar Convention, addresses the panel.
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