Consultative meeting - Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture
The Governments of Viet Nam, South-Africa and The Netherlands are co-organizing a Consultative meeting for an Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture, 18-20 June in Hanoi, Viet Nam
The Consultative meeting is supported by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CGIAR/CCAFS, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Italy. This consultation for the Asian region is part of the formal preparatory work for launching the Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit in September 2014.
In November 2010 agriculture, food security and climate change were addressed as part of the same agenda for the first time, during the 1st Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, hosted in The Hague, the Netherlands, and co-organized by the Governments of Ethiopia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway and Viet Nam, together with FAO and the World Bank.
At the Conference FAO presented the concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA):
Climate-smart agriculture promotes production systems that sustainably increase productivity, resilience (adaptation), reduces/removes GHGs (mitigation), and enhances achievement of national food security and development goals.
100 to 120 representatives from governments, private sector, scientific institutes, farmers organizations and unions, foundations, civil society and international organizations, are expected to take part in this consultative meeting, which will feed into the global process, through The Hague arriving in New York in September 2014.
In specific the meeting will:
Inform participants on what is CSA, the vision and added value of the Alliance;
Build understanding for requirements, specific needs and contributions from the Asian region;
Offer a venue for dialogue between regions and different stakeholders;
Evaluate if priority areas under the action groups are in line with the regions priorities;
Identify potential areas of regional and cross regional collaboration and CSA initiatives;
List the interest of stakeholders to be part of the CSA Alliance.
Provisional program for the meeting:
Day 1 - Wednesday 18 June 2014
Field Trip
Day 2 - Thursday 19 June 2014
8.30-9.00am Registration
9.00-10.00am Opening Plenary
Opening Speeches by
Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam
Hans Hoogeveen, Vice Minister for Agriculture, The Netherlands
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
10.00 - 10.15am Introduction to the Work Program, objective of the meeting by the Co-Chairs
10.15 – 10.45am Keynote Speeches
Introduction of Climate Smart Agriculture (FAO)
Background Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (Interim-Secretariat)
10.45-11.00am Coffee break
11.00-12.30pm Global context – sharing best practices, open dialogue
Country experiences
Farmers experience
Civil society experience
Private sector experience
12.30-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-4.00pm Asian context and Africa and Latin American experience
4.00- 4.30pm Coffee break
4.30-5.00pm Introduction to the working groups
Presentation on Enabling Environment
Presentation on CSA Knowledge
Day 3 - Friday 20 June 2014
9.00-11.30am Parallel working group sessions for Enabling Environment and CSA Knowledge
12.30-2.00am Lunch
2.00- 2.30pm Plenary Session
- Feedback working group sessions for Enabling Environment and CSA Knowledge
2.30-3.30pm Reflection on working groups and concrete outputs to feed into Global Conference The Hague and UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit
3.30-4.00pm Coffee break
4.00-4.45pm Next steps
- Anthea Webb, UN Secretary-General’s Office
4.45-5.00pm Official Closing of the Consultative meeting of the Alliance for CSA