Climate-Smart Agriculture: Global Science Conference
The 2013 Climate Smart Agriculture Global Science Conference promises to bring three important issues under the spotlight: farm and food systems; landscape and regional issues; and the integrative and transformative institutional and policy aspects that will bridge across scales to link science and practice to ensure food security, poverty alleviation and multiple ecosystem services.
CCAFS will be both participating in this conference and organizing a few of the sessions.
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Climate change is occurring more rapidly than anticipated and the increase in extreme weather events threatens more disruptive effects to agriculture. Existing technologies and current institutional structures seem inadequate to achieve the mitigation needed to adequately slow climate change, while also meeting needed food security, livelihood and sustainability goals.
We must identify actions that are science-based, utilize knowledge systems in new ways, and provide resilience for food systems and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes despite the future uncertainty of climate change and extreme events. It is imperative that new modes of science-policy integration transform land management and community action for food security, and for conservation of biodiversity and the resource base upon which agriculture depends.
To this end, the 2013 Climate Smart Agriculture Global Science Conference will bring three key issues to fore: farm and food systems; landscape and regional issues; and the integrative and transformative institutional and policy aspects that will bridge across scales to link science and practice to ensure food security, poverty alleviation and multiple ecosystem services.
CCAFS will be both participating in this conference and organizing a few of the sessions.