Events

Platform dialogue on food security and climate change

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development invites you to a dialogue on Food Security and Climate Change featuring members of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. The dialogue will be streamed live at donorplatform.org/livestream at 13:30 Central European Summer Time. You can also join live via twitter @donorplatform.

SPEAKERS

  • Marion Guillou  CCAFS Commissioner, President of the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) – via videolink
  • Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt  Lund University / SIANI
  • Elwyn Grainger-Jones  Executive Coordinator, Global Environment and Climate Change, IFAD – via videolink
  • David Howlett  Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture, DFID – via videolink

 
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
 
 
Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: the Critical Role of Global Donors Marion Guillou – via videolink

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development invites you to a dialogue on Food Security and Climate Change featuring members of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. The dialogue will be streamed live at donorplatform.org/livestream at 13:30 Central European Summer Time. You can also join live via twitter @donorplatform.

SPEAKERS

  • Marion Guillou  CCAFS Commissioner, President of the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) – via videolink
  • Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt  Lund University / SIANI
  • Elwyn Grainger-Jones  Executive Coordinator, Global Environment and Climate Change, IFAD – via videolink
  • David Howlett  Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture, DFID – via videolink

 
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
 
Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: the Critical Role of Global Donors Marion Guillou – via videolink

The significance of international donor institutions for attaining food security will be discussed with particular reference to the CCAFS Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change report Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change.
 

Provisional Programme for Food security and climate change livestream

13:30-15:30

Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: the Critical Role of Global Donors, Marion Guillou, CCAFS Commissioner

Response from SIANI, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Lund University / SIANI

Climate change initiatives at IFAD, Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Executive Coordinator, Global Environment and Climate Change, IFAD

Climate change initiatives at DFID, David Howlett, Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture, DFID

Discussion