| 12 December 2009 |
Agriculture and Rural Development Day will be a parallel event to the UNFCCC 15th Conference of Parties, in Copenhagen this December. The event is convened by the CGIAR challenge program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security and will take place on December 12, 2009, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
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The main objective of the event is to lay the groundwork for a workplan of strategies and actions that will see agriculture fully incorporated into the post-Copenhagen agenda. Approximately 300 participants are expected. The event will consist of an opening plenary with keynote presentations, roundtable discussions on specific themes, poster sessions and a closing plenary. The event will bring together policy makers and negotiators, rural development practitioners, producers, civil society and the agricultural and climate change scientific community. The event will identify the no-regret priorities for agriculture and food security—stressing the areas where the world needs to act regardless of exactly how climate change plays out locally.
The event will focus on the following key areas:
- The role of agriculture and farmers in adaptation and mitigation strategies;
- Future scenarios for agriculture, rural development and food security;
- Climate change as a development issue; and
- Innovations in the agricultural sector of relevance to the climate change agenda.
Roundtable topics include: Climate change impacts on agriculture; Policies and institutions; Agricultural responses for adaptation and mitigation and Unlocking the potential of the carbon market for small farmers.
Given the global significance of Agriculture and Rural Development Day, please forward this announcement to colleagues and relevant listservs. See the attached PDF file for the full announcement.
For further information, please visit www.agricultureday.org or email agricultureday@gmail.com
Written by: ASB Blog Editor
