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Every three years since 1997, the World Water Forum mobilises creativity, innovation, competence and know-how in favour of water. It gathers all stakeholders around today’s local, regional and global issues that cannot be undertaken without all stakeholders into a common framework of goals and concrete targets to reach. The goal of the 6^th World Water Forum is to tackle the challenges our world is facing and to bring water high on all political agendas. There will be no sustainable development while the water issues remain unsolved.

Planet Under Pressure: New knowledge towards solutions is a major international science conference focusing on solutions to the global sustainability challenge. The conference is co-organied by the Earth Systems Science Partnership (ESSP) a core partner in the CGIAR Climate Program.

This session will explore transformational options for feeding a growing world population and developing agriculture to fight poverty while remaining within the guardrails of two planetary boundaries: water and greenhouse gas emissions. Presentations cover the global to village scale, and include models and case studies.

In relation to the Planet under Pressure conference in London, UK, Bioversity International will organise a live webcast and chat on ‘Agricultural Biodiversity and our Planet’. The expert panel consists of Emile Frison, Bruce Cogill, Fabrice DeClerck and Stephan Weise. They will respond to questions and comments about how agricultural biodiversity can contribute to the global sustainability challenge and improve nutrition and livelihoods in smallholder farming communities.

How do we manage agricultural landscapes to achieve poverty reduction, increased food production, and also support biodiversity, natural resources and their associated ecosystem services? This session, which will be held during the Planet under Pressure Conference in London, UK, is designed to understand the tradeoffs between different ecosystem services, and to translate this knowledge into action toward more sustainable and resilient pathways through both public and private actors.

Subsistence farmers are among the most vulnerable to current climate variability due to their overall lack of income, access to markets, lack of information and technology and thus their ability to cope with weather extremes. Agroforestry, or the intentional use of trees in the cropping system, has been proposed by many development practitioners as a potential strategy to help farmers reduce their vulnerability to climate change.

If you are concerned with the coupled challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to the impacts of climate change, and you have an interest in food supply chains, then this session will offer significant food for thought. Practitioners from the private sector will join researchers to share their insights. Following four keynote presentations, there will be an opportunity to question a panel of experts on how industry and research can respond to the twinned challenges of adaptation and mitigation, with particular reference to the implications for developing countries. This side-event will be held during the Planet Under Pressure (PuP) Conference, in London, UK.