3rd Global Science Conference “Climate Smart Agriculture 2015”
The conference aimed to strengthen a scientific community on climate-smart agriculture (CSA), contribute to the development of a global research agenda, update knowledge on CSA, and provide recommendations for policymakers.
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Presentations and posters from CCAFS collaborators
The Montpellier Statement - Climate-Smart Agriculture: Towards Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems. Mobilizing science for transitions
The Montpellier global science conference on CSA:
- Will address key research issues, gather CSA facts and figures from developing and developed countries and support a collaborative effort with broad social participation. Special attention will be given to vulnerable countries and populations. It will therefore contribute to the strengthening of a CSA scientific community and will provide a further opportunity for developing a global research agenda.
- Will aim to reduce the science-policy gap. The conference takes place a few months before the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, Paris, France, December 2015). The COP21 will be a milestone in the international climate negotiations, with the goal that all countries are committed by a universal binding climate agreement. It is hoped that the COP21 will witness a “paradigm shift” where the climate challenge is not any more a necessary "burden sharing" of emissions, but also an opportunity for job creation and wealth, inventing new patterns of production and consumption. Therefore the Montpellier CSA conference will be a unique opportunity for the research community to update knowledge on CSA and to provide recommendations for policymakers.
- Will pave the road for future cooperation initiatives to be taken in terms of joint and collaborative scientific efforts.
"The third Global Science Conference on Climate -Smart Agriculture (CSA)" is part of a process initiated in October 2010 in The Hague by the Government of the Netherlands, culminating in the recent launch of the Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture in New York, September 2014.
Key events featuring CCAFS research:
| Date | Time | Title | Presenter | Organization |
| 03/16 | 14:00-15:00 | Maggie Opondo | University of Nairobi | |
| 03/16 | 14:00-15:00 | Climate-smart agriculture in South Asia: Opportunities and constraints in scaling out | Pramod Aggarwal | CCAFS |
| 03/16 | 16:30-18:00 | Potential for taking climate smart agricultural practices to scale: Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa | Kindie Tesfaye | CIMMYT |
| 03/16 | 16:30-18:00 | Changing rainfall pattern in Northeast Thailand and implications for cropping systems adaptation | Guillaume Lacombe | IWMI |
| 03/16 | 16:30-18:00 | Development of climate resilient villages | Sikka Ak | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
| 03/16 | 16:30-18:00 | Integrated rice-shrimp as a smart strategy to cope with climate change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam | Tu Trinh Quang | RIA |
| 03/16 | 16:30-18:00 | Practices and enabling conditions for climate-smart agriculture: current status in seven countries in Latin America | Bouroncle Claudia | CATIE |
| 03/17 | 09:00-11:00 | Food security and food systems | Sonja Vermeulen | CCAFS |
| 03/17 | 14:00-15:00 | Will Sustainable intensification get us to 2 degrees? | Lini Wollenberg | University of Vermont, CCAFS |
| 03/17 | 14:00-15:00 | Facing climatic variability and extremes | Robert Zougmoré | ICRISAT |
| 03/17 | 14:00-15:00 | Developing and evaluating climate-smart practices and services | Bruce Campbell | CCAFS |
| 03/17 | 16:30-18:00 | Climate readiness in smallholder agricultural systems: Lessons learned fro REDD+ | Monika Zurek | Climate Focus |
| 03/17 | 16:30-18:00 | Assessing low emissions agricultural pathways under alternative climate policy regimes | Ulrich Kleinwechter | IIASA |
| 03/17 | 16:30-18:00 | Climate-smart coffee systems in East Africa | Laurence Jassogne | IITA |
| 03/17 | 16:30-18:00 | Prioritizing Climate-Smart Agricultural Interventions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales | Paresh Shirsath | IWMI |
| 03/17 | 16:30-18:00 | Utilization of ex situ collections and climate analogues for enhancing adaptive capacity to climate change | Sunil Archak | ICAR |
| 03/18 | 08:30-09:30 | A business approach to poverty reduction: weather index based insurance and climate smart agriculture | Helen Greatrex | IRI |
| 03/18 | 11:00-12:30 | DSS for monitoring agro-meteorological and crop conditions in India using remote sensing for agro-advisory services | Vinay Sehgal | Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
| 03/18 | 11:00-12:30 | Can citizen science accelerate climate adaptation by poor farming households? | Jacob van Etten | Bioversity International |
| 03/18 | 11:00-12:30 | Smallholders’ coffee and cocoa agroforestry systems, examples of climate-smart agriculture | Philippe Vaast | CIRAD, ICRAF |
| 03/18 | 11:00-12:30 | Managing trade-offs in climate-smart landscapes: A global analysis at multiple levels | Bruno Locatelli | CIRAD-CIFOR |
| 03/18 | 11:00-12:30 | Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice | Peter A Minang | ICRAF |
Mitigation in Focus
The CSA conference also features significant progress, innovations and opportunities in low emissions agriculture. See this table of mitigation-related presentations, several that result directly from CCAFS research.
The Montpellier Statement - Climate-Smart Agriculture: Towards Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems. Mobilizing science for transitions
Déclaration de Montpellier - L’agriculture climato-intelligente: pour des territoires et des systèmes alimentaires durables. Mobiliser la science pour accompagner les transitions
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