GFIA will highlight the sustainable agriculture initiatives being planned and deployed around the world.

Innovation in agriculture gives us a real chance of feeding nine billion people using less resource and with no environmental damage. It has the potential to offer solutions to combat global warming, provide technologies that can improve nutrition and social prosperity in developing countries, be an unlimited source of clean energy, and help us look after our more precious resource: water.

In February 2014, Abu Dhabi welcomed the world and hosted the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture. Held in strategic partnership with the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, GFIA 2014 presented the world’s largest showcase of sustainable agriculture solutions and hosted over 3,200 of the world’s brightest minds to show the world how game-changing technologies can change the way the world grows food forever.

Since the launch, GFIA has received major attention for its commitment to challenge the way food is produced. Now with the backing of 32 globally significant partners committed to using GFIA as a catalyst for change, GFIA 2015 will be the most influential event in the world for all those wishing to contribute to the sustainable agriculture movement.

With the key theme of 'driving innovation for an agricultural revolution,' GFIA will highlight the sustainable agriculture initiatives being planned and deployed around the world, facilitate knowledge transfer and demonstrate available investment opportunities.

The conference highlights in 2015 include:

Global Climate-Smart Agriculture Summit
Post Harvest Waste Initiative: From Prevention to Valorisation
ICT for Sustainable Agriculture
Edible Cities: Building Resilience with Urban Agriculture
Forum on Non-Conventional Water Use in Arid Countries
100+ innovation presentations
50+ roundtable debates

Here are the key events featuring CCAFS research:

Global Climate-Smart Agriculture Summit

Date	Time	Title	Presenter	Organization
9 March	10:00-11:15	Keynote	Frank Rijsberman	CGIAR Consortium
9 March	16:55-18:00	Making Climate-smart Agriculture Work in Africa	Bruce Campbell	CCAFS
10 March	15:10-16:15	Landscape Restoration and Agroforestry	Dennis Garrity	ICRAF

Food Losses & Waste From Prevention to Valorisation

10 March

14:30-16:00

Panel discussion: Technologies and practices to reduce food losses and waste and valorize food losses and waste in the context of developing countries

Mark W. Rosegrant

IFPRI

Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture events

9 March	10:00-11:15	Global CSA Opening Ceremony
9 March	12:20-13:30	GACSA plenary session
9 March	15:00-16:45	Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture: Special Ministerial Session
9 March	15:15-16:15	Financing Climate-smart Agriculture
9 March	16:55-18:00	Africa CSA session
10 March	09:00-18:00	Global Climate Smart Agriculture Summit: post harvest losses and waste / urban agriculture / agroforestry & land restoration
10 March	10:30-12:00	Climate-Smart Agriculture: Technology for Impact	Alain Vidal James Kinyangi	IFPRI, CCAFS
11 March	09:00-17:00	GACSA Strategic Committee Meeting