Side-event: Lessons learnt from scaling-up actions on food security, adaptation and mitigation
Can we achieve food security while reducing the impact of the food system on climate change? On Thursday 29 November the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will organize the side-event “Lessons learnt from scaling-up actions on food security, adaptation and mitigation”.
Can we achieve food security while reducing the impact of the food system on climate change? On Thursday 29 November the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will organize the side-event “Lessons learnt from scaling-up actions on food security, adaptation and mitigation”.
There is an urgent need to scale up interventions in the agriculture and food security sectors that tackle adaptation and mitigation. The challenge has been bringing these activities to scale. The side event will take the opportunity to present, and critically discuss, large-scale agricultural successes from the field that have sustainably increased productivity; created resilience; reduced greenhouse gas emissions or increased carbon stocks; and enhanced achievement of national food security and development goals.
Refreshments will be served!
Programme
Introductory remarks by the chair | Patrick Verkooijen, Special Representative for Climate Change, World Bank |
Synthesis of key lessons | James Kinyangi, East Africa Regional Program Leader, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) |
Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Programme | Catherine Zanev, Policy Officer, Climate Change, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Office, World Food Programme |
Australia's Carbon Farming Initiative | Rob Sturgiss, Assistant Secretary, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Government of Australia |
India's Integrated Agrometerological Advisory Services
| Kalpana Venkatasubramanian, Consultant, CCAFS
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Q&A discussion with the panel and questions from the audience | Facilitated by the Chair |
Download the background document: The large-scale implementation of adaptation and mitigation actions in the agriculture and food sector
Download side event flyer below.