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 Participants convened in plenary and working group sessions throughout the day. In the morning plenary, Chair Bleker outlined the intended outcome of the Conference as a roadmap with concrete actions to enable the transition to climate-smart agriculture growth. Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, African Union Commission, presented the message from the African Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, held from 6-8 September in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Kanayo Nwanze, President, International Fund for African Development, urged participants to recognize that agriculture, food security and climate change are inseparable issues, and suggested that tools and approaches exist and should be leveraged to launch an evergreen revolution. Louise Fresco, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, expressed concern with the climate change focus in agriculture and urged that the roadmap address agricultural intensification, including modernization and new technologies.
Two parallel working groups focused on exploring issues, challenges and opportunities and stocktaking of innovations, with presentations of case studies from Australia, Kenya, Russian Federation and Mexico.
In the afternoon plenary, Robert Watson, University of East Anglia, UK, suggested that improving infrastructure and management of food could eliminate post-harvest loss by 30-40%. Jeremy Hobbs, Oxfam International, outlined principles for addressing the food, economic and financial, and climate crises. Participants then convened in two working groups to discuss practical and replicable models with lessons learned from successful practices in Burkina Faso, Poland, Peru, Spain and Ethiopia.
Side events took place throughout the day, and the investment fair focused on opportunities and challenges for project investments in Africa. |
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L-R: Sergey Kiselev, Head of Department of Agroeconomics, College of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia; Kim van Seeters, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation; Knut Øistad, Deputy Director-General, Department of Forestry and Resource Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Norway; and Yemi Akinbamijo, African Union Commission |
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Conference resources
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IISD RS resources
IISD RS summary report of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2009, 12 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the World Summit on Food Security, 16-18 November 2009, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of the Twelfth Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA-12), 19-23 October 2009, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of the Third Session of the Governing Body (GB 3) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 1-5 June 2009, Tunis, Tunisia
IISD RS briefing note of the High-Level Meeting on African Agriculture in the 21st Century, 9-10 February 2009, Windhoek, Namibia (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS archive of meetings on climate change, and backgrounder
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Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
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It’s Down 2 Earth - Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change
