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 On Tuesday, participants convened in a plenary session in the morning and in working group sessions throughout the day. In the morning plenary, the co-chairs of Working Groups 1 and 2 reported on Monday’s working groups’ outcomes.
Michael Jenkins, Forest Trends, reported that during the investment fair on Monday US$1.5 million was committed by the Rockefeller Foundation for three new projects addressing climate change and agriculture in Africa.
Participants then heard four keynote addresses. Dennis Garrity, World Agroforestry Centre, showcased an example of climate-smart agriculture providing solutions to food scarcity by intensifying agriculture systems and increasing drought resilience. Martin Kropff, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands, described challenges for agriculture solutions to climate change, including: developing land specific production systems; reducing methane emissions from rice; fixing carbon with grassland; and building low-emission animal production systems. Ralph Ashton, Terrestrial Carbon Group, noted the need to optimize land use to meet multiple demands on land, such as food and biofuels production, and introduced the Land 2050 Initiative, which he said is being developed to deliver solutions. Ben Tax, Rijk Zwaan, the Netherlands, emphasized the role of the plant breeding industry for global food security and noted the risk posed by the patenting of genetic material to the capacity of the industry to continue to innovate in a competitive way.
The morning working group sessions addressed policy measures for agriculture innovation, and successes and challenges in adaptation and mitigation, with presentations from Malawi, Chile, Nepal and Niger. In the afternoon working group sessions, after hearing presentations from Albania, Republic of Korea, India, Morocco, New Zealand and Zambia, participants discussed tools and methodologies to support climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.
Various side events were organized throughout the day, and the investment fair focused on managing carbon emissions through supply chains. |
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The dais during the morning plenary session. L-R: Hans Hoogeveen, Director General, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation; Chair Henk Bleker, Minister for Agriculture and Foreign Trade, the Netherlands; Dennis Garrity, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre; Ralph Ashton, Chair, Terrestrial Carbon Group; and Ben Tax, CEO, Rijk Zwaan, the Netherlands. |
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IISD RS resources
IISD RS summary report of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2009, 12 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark (HTML - PDF)
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