Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change: Final Summary

[Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change: Final Summary ]

The Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change is intended as a follow-up to the SharedVision Statement agreed at the Seventeenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-17) in May2009 and to further develop the agriculture, food security and climate change agenda. On Policies and strategies for climate-smart agriculture, the Roadmap identifies: coordination, synergy and integration between sectoral development plans, coherence of global processes, enablingpolicies; and the role of the private sector. On Tools and technologies for climate-smart agriculture, the Roadmap identifies: * sustainable agricultural intensification;landscape based approaches and agroforestry; * agriculture and forests;water conservation and harvesting; * pest and disease control; * soil and nutrient management;crops; * livestock and fisheries; * genetic resources; * harvesting, processing and supply chains; * input and waste management; * risk management; * research, education and extension services; * engaging the public, media and facilitating multistakeholder dialogue; * knowledge sharing, improved access to information and technology transfer; * and scaling up of replicable models.

Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation in close cooperation with Ethiopia, Viet Nam, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, the World Bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Language: Inglés

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