Scenarios for Policy: Transforming Farming, Landscapes and Food Systems for the 21st Century
Side event at the Hunger for Action Conference: 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change. This session, coordinated by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will consider future policy options for the major transformative changes that need to happen in farming, landscapes and food systems to make climate-smart agriculture a sustainable reality for livelihoods and environment.
Side event at the Hunger for Action Conference: 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change. This session, coordinated by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) will consider future policy options for the major transformative changes that need to happen in farming, landscapes and food systems to make climate-smart agriculture a sustainable reality for livelihoods and environment.
The side event is entitled 'Scenarios for Policy: Transforming Farming, Landscapes and Food Systems for the 21st Century' and brings together a wide variety of researchers from the CGIAR and other partner organisations such as World Food Program (WFP), and Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).
A brief outline of the session:
Title | Speaker |
Working Group A: Policies for 21st Century Farming Systems and Landscapes (1.5 hours) |
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Accelerating adaptation: today's priorities for preparedness in 2030 | Dr A. Jarvis (CIAT) |
Production systems for cereals: long-term adaptation in dryland climates and environments | Dr R. Serraj (ICARDA) |
Global land use implications of different consumption and development trajectories | Dr T. Searchinger (Princeton) |
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Working Group B: Policies for 21st Century Food Systems and Institutions (1.5 hours) |
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Future food systems: policies and programs to assure food for the poorest under climate change | Dr C. Scaramella (WFP) |
Projections of meat and milk demand: implications for the green economy | Dr M. Ibrahim (CATIE) |
Carbon trading in intensive cropping systems of the tropics: hope or hype? | Dr R. Wassmann (IRRI) |
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