Act!on Agriculture Monday 10 December The first day of the three-day Act!on Agriculture event took place on 10 December 2018. The day featured three sessions, beginning with a ministerial discussion, followed by two technical sessions: Farmers Working Towards Lower Emissions; and Resilient, Productive, Efficient Pacific Agriculture under the Paris Agreement.The ministerial opening brought together ministers from New Zealand, Vanuatu, the Netherlands, Uganda and Australia to discuss challenges faced by food production systems in limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Ministers shared strategies for ensuring that agriculture can contribute to achieving the aims of the Paris Agreement.The first technical session focused on how farmers have contributed to reducing emissions and building climate resilience while also improving farm productivity. Discussions included the best ways to achieve knowledge sharing and recognition of farmers’ contributions to emission reductions.During the second technical session, scientists and farmers discussed technologies, techniques and practices that help build productive, resilient agricultural systems in the Pacific while reducing emissions. Discussions covered major threats to agriculture in the Pacific and collaboration that could help address them.

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Ministerial Opening

 

Theo de Jager, President, World Farmers’ Organisation

 

Melissa Lee Price, Minister for Environment, Australia

 

Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Vanuatu

 

Marjolijn Sonnema, Vice Minister for Agriculture, the Netherlands

 

Mary Goretti Kitutu, Minister for Water and Environment, Uganda

 

Hayden Montgomery, Special Representative, Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

 

L-R: Melissa Lee Price, Minister for Environment, Australia; Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Vanuatu; Theo de Jager, President, World Farmers’ Organisation

 

Dawit Solomon, Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR)

 

Participants listened to the discussion

 

Kosi Latu, Director-General, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Participants at the event

Farmers Working Towards Lower Emissions

 

David Burger, DairyNZ

 

Ben O’Brien, Beef + Lamb New Zealand

 

Turi McFarlane, Nuffield Scholar

 

Katie Milne, President, Federated Farmers of New Zealand

 

Craige MacKenzie, Founder & Director, Agri Optics, New Zealand

 

Christopher Brankin, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu

L-R: Katie Milne, President, Federated Farmers of New Zealand; Christopher Brankin, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu; Turi McFarlane, Nuffield Scholar; Craige MacKenzie, Founder & Director, Agri Optics, New Zealand; and Ben O’Brien, Beef + Lamb New Zealand

 

Elizabeth Wedderburn, New Zealand

 

Joel Wynhorst, Global Voices

Participants take part in the discussion

Resilient, Productive, Efficient: Pacific Agriculture under the Paris Agreement

 

Margarita Astralaga, International Fund for Agricultural Development

 

Iwona Piechowiak, Pacific Community

 

Ulamila Lutu, Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT)

 

Minoru Nishi Jr, Managing Director, Nishi Trading Company, Tonga

 

Jabujka Aikne, Farmer, Republic of the Marshall Islands

 

Susana Yalikanacea, Fijian Organic Farmer

 

Gibson Susumu, Pacific Community

 

Lee Nelson, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

 

A participant makes a comment

 

Participants at the event