Eventos

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During the COP19 climate conference in Warsaw, Poland, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will be engaging in a number of activities:

On 10 November, CCAFS East Africa program will organise a workshop for African negotiators related to agriculture and food security.

CCAFS Head of Research, Sonja Vermeulen, will participate in an open and online debate on the topic 'Does small-scale climate adaptation pay?'. Get information on how you can participate here.

On 13-14 November, CCAFS Long-Term Adaptation team will take the lead and coordinate a 2-day workshop, entitled "National Adaptation Plans and Agriculture: A Learning Workshop".

15 November is marked for the official COP19 side event "Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans: Experiences and Lessons Learned", which will build on the 2-day NAP workshop and include the release of a report analysing the topic at hand - the National Adaptation Plan process. The side event is scheduled for: 20:15-21:45 p.m. in Room Cracow at the UNFCCC climate conference facilities.

The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) will be held in the midst of the climate negotiations, on 16-17 November. CCAFS is jointly organising the Forum together with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). During the two-day event, CCAFS will be leading several Discussions- and Technical and Networking sessions.

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The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will be organising and participating in a number of Technical and Networking Sessions and Discussion Forums throughout the Forum. A few of the sessions will be live-streamed [more information to come on this]:

- On Saturday 14:00-16:00 CET, CCAFS will be leading the Technical and Networking Session Managing landscapes for food, fuel, fiber and forests: innovative approaches in a time of food insecurity and climate change together with IFRI University of Michigan and The Forests Dialogue.

- The Technical and Networking session “The good, the bad and the ugly: Climate change's potential impact on farmers in Africa” will be organised by IFPRI at 16:30-18:30 CET and present the CCAFS-supported Climate Change in African Agriculture book series.

- On Sunday 11:00 -12:30 CET, four parallel Sub-Plenaries will be held. CCAFS will be active in the plenary entitled Synergies between Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Change in Forest and Agricultural Landscapes. The Sub-Plenary will be co-organised with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA).

- CCAFS theme on Long-term Adaptation, based at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) will be co-organising a Discussion Forum on the theme of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs): Opportunities for cross-sector synergies in the nexus between water, food security, forests and energy? The Forum will be taking place on Sunday 15:00-17:30 CET.

- On Sunday, another Discussion Forum entitled Rolling up our sleeves on agricultural mitigation for landscape benefits, will be co-organised by CCAFS and Farming First among others. The session will be held 15:00-17:30 CET.