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CAS 2021 Virtual Dialogue Session 2: Digitalisation to improve planning and monitoring of adaptation actions

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Part 2 of the Climate resilient food systems for Africa: From evidence to action virtual dialogue series that aims to identify principles and approaches for integrating digital tools for planning and monitoring adaptation actions in food systems.

 

Program

 

Virtual dialogue 2: Digitalisation to improve planning and monitoring of adaptation actions

15  JAN | 14:00 – 15:30 PM CET

Highlights and summary from the first dialogue 

Dawit Solomon, East Africa Regional Program Leader, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) 

14:00

Welcome by Chair

Patrick Verkooijen, CEO, Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)

14:05

Keynote presentation: Can digitalisation transform African food systems?

Sander Janssen, Director, Earth Informatics Team, Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

14:15

Panel reacting to keynote from different perspectives:

  • Martin Frick, Deputy to the Special Envoy, UN Food Systems Summit
  • Sebastian Oggema, Project Manager, Climate Resilient Agribusiness for Tomorrow (CRAFT), Kenya
  • Dan Haglund, Senior Private Sector Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), United Kingdom
  • Beatrice Gakuba, Executive Director, African Women Agribusiness Network (AWAN) Africa
14:30

Reflection from the next generation

Rebecca Sarku, PhD Researcher, Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

14:50
Live Q&A and interactive session with audience 14:55 
Closing comments from all speakers 15:15

Closing and a way forward

Ida Rademaker, Policy Officer, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

15:20

 

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