Events Archive

UNFCCC Meeting for the Ad Hoc Working Groups
Bangkok, UNFCCC
30 August 2012 - 05 September 2012
United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Bangkok, Thailand

The Bureau has given the secretariat the green light to make provisional arrangements for an additional sessional period in 2012 for work by:
• the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA),
• the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP);
• and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).

These sessions will be held from Thursday 30 August through Wednesday 5 September at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), in Bangkok, Thailand.

2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change
Conference, hunger4action, Vietnam
03 September 2012 - 07 September 2012
Melia Hotel
Hanoi, Vietnam

Global leaders, practitioners, scientists, civil society and the private sector will demonstrate early action on climate-smart agriculture as a driver for green growth during a global conference will be held from in September 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change includes a High Level Meeting and will be co-organized by Vietnam and The Netherlands, in close collaboration with other partners, including the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Scenarios for Policy: Transforming Farming, Landscapes and Food Systems for the 21st Century
Conference, hunger4action, Vietnam
04 September 2012
15:30 - 17:00
Melia Hotel
Hanoi, Vietnam

Side event at the Hunger for Action Conference: 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change. This session, coordinated by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will consider future policy options for the major transformative changes that need to happen in farming, landscapes and food systems to make climate-smart agriculture a sustainable reality for livelihoods and environment.

West Africa workshop to promote knowledge sharing on climate change and food security

knowledge sharing, senegal, workshop
04 September 2012 - 05 September 2012
Pullman Hotel
Dakar, Senegal

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and le Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) have come together to organize a workshop that will promote knowledge sharing as an important tool for decision making for better climate change, agriculture and food security policies in West Africa.

Side Event: Integrating food security and sustainable agriculture into climate change policies
arusha, side event, tanzania
10 September 2012 - 14 September 2012
12:30 - 14:00
Old Manyara, Arusha International Conference Center
Arusha, Tanzania

This side event, held during the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) event, will focus on sharing research findings from the current CCAFS partnership engagement, for integrating agriculture and food security into climate change policies.

Live Video Science Seminar: Index-based insurance for agriculture
video science seminar
19 September 2012
16:00 - 17:00
Virtual

The time for the science seminar will be: 16:00 - 17:00 CET (Copenhagen, Rome, Paris). [Click here to convert time zone]

On 19 September, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is organizing an online Science Seminar, where Dr. Michael Carter, from University of California Davis, will be live streamed during a presentation on the limitations and promise of risk transfer innovations in developing countries. Dr. Carter will present case studies from East Africa, including index-based livestock insurance in Kenya, and interlinking credit and insurance in Ethiopia. He will also discuss the future research agenda for index insurance. After the presentation the audience will be given an opportunity to ask questions.

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Brussels Development Briefing: Climate change, agriculture and food security
Europe, policy
27 September 2012
08:30 -
European Commission, Borschette Building
Brussels, Belgium

The next Brussels Development Briefing  will  focus on ‘Climate change, agriculture and food security: proven approaches and new investments’ on 27 September at 8:30 AM CET.

Climate change – both natural and anthropogenic – will lead to significant global and local changes in the near future. Agriculture is contributing significantly to GHG emmissions, but will also be among the sectors most severely impacted by changes in climate patterns. Climate change will affect all four dimensions of food security: food availability, food accessibility, food utilization and food systems stability.

Workshop: Assisting farmers and institutions to better adapt to climate change and variability in West Africa
evaluation, monitoring, workshop
27 September 2012 - 29 September 2012
ECOFIL/IER
Bamako, Mali

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and The International Union of Conservation of Nature, Central and West Africa programme (IUCN-PACO) are organizing series of workshops on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) to strengthen the adaptive capacity of farmers and institutions to climate change in 4 out of 5 pilot countries.