Highlights and images for 27 May 2019

Kenya

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Highlights for Monday, 27 May 2019

View of the GSW 2019 plenary with Co-Facilitator Alexander Müller, Managing Director, Töpfer, Müller, Gaßner - Think Tank for Sustainability (TMG Research) delivering his opening address

Global Soil Week 2019 (GSW 2019) opened on Monday morning, 27 May, with the two-day technical segment of the conference. During the opening plenary, Co-Facilitators Alice Kaudia, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Eco-Entrepreneurs Ltd., and Alexander Alexander Müller, Töpfer, Müller, Gaßner — Think Tank for Sustainability (TMG Research), welcomed representatives from government, science, NGOs, and international organizations, as well as farmers, and introduced the conference theme, ‘Creating an Enabling Environment for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Agriculture in Africa.’



Explaining the rationale for the conference, Müller observed that four years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world is still not on track to achieve these ambitious global targets. He noted that discussions at GSW 2019 would seek to explore the “missing middle” that is critical for delivering the Global Goals, including access to finance and legislative and governance frameworks that ensure secure access to land, productive resources and decision making processes, especially for women and other marginalized actors at the local level.Participants then convened in five working groups for the rest of the day to discuss experiences from more than 20 local projects in Africa and Asia. The discussions took an in-depth look at some of the factors that support or hinder the creation of an enabling environment for sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture



Some of the broad themes addressed in the presentations included:



•    Good practices to empower women’s participation in sustainable land management and decision-making;

•    Innovative approaches to secure smallholder farmers' access to land, finance and other agricultural inputs;

•    Business models to strengthen financial and market inclusion for smallholder farmers and pastoralists;

•    Opportunities to strengthen participatory governance systems for sustainable soil management and ecosystem restoration;

•    Mechanisms for bridging macro- and micro-level land governance structures; and

•    How to ensure sustainability of promising local initiatives.

BMZ - GIZ - GSW 2019 - TMG

IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ Meeting Coverage, provided daily web coverage from GSW 2019. In addition, IISD Reporting Services has published a summary report from the meeting, which is available in HTML and PDF.

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Peter Murunga, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Serah Kiragu-Wissler, TMG Research
Co-Facilitator Alice Kaudia, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Eco-Entrepreneurs Ltd.
Co-Facilitator Alexander Müller, Managing Director, TMG Research
Participants watching a video presentation by TMG and GRAF
Jes Weigelt, TMG Research
Saydou Koudougou, GRAF
Co-Facilitators Alexander Müller, Managing Director, TMG Research, and Alice Kaudia, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Eco-Entrepreneurs Ltd. going over the agenda for the day
Analysis of Cases - Parallel Implementers' Workshops


David Kersting, Co-Moderator, GIZ (right)
L-R: David Kersting, Co-Moderator, GIZ, with Zacharie Segda, Minister of Agriculture, Burkina Faso
Paul Okongo, Kenyan Farmer
Rhoda Birech, Limbua Foundation
Violet Shivutse, Shibuye Community Health Workers
Co-moderator Sonja Scheele, TMG Research
Co-moderator Alexander Erlewein, GIZ
Workshop session from the Cocoa room
Jony Girma, Apis Agribusiness
Ann-Kathrin Neureuther, Rare
Carolyne Musee, Vi Agroforestry
Amos Wekesa, Vi Agroforestry
Walter Engelberg, GIZ
Leigh Ann Winowiecki, ICRAF
L-R: Samie Blasingame, TMG Research, with Zwide Jere, Total Land Care, Malawi
L-R: Marai El Fassi, TMG Research, with Joseph Letunyoi, Laikipia Permaculture Centre

Participants

Non-state coalitions
NGOs