Events

Event

Title:: Platform Dialogue__ Food security and climate change
When:: 07.06.2012 12.00 h - 15.30 h
Where:: Sida Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm -
Category:: Seminar
Centre:: Stockholm

Description

SEI staff Madeleine Fogde and Matthew Fielding will be moderating this event.

When		Thursday, 7 June, 12:00–15:30 CET

Where		Sida Offices__ Valhallavägen 199, Stockholm/Sweden, Room Asante Live webcast__ donorplatform.org/livestream Join us live on Twitter__ twitter.com/#!/donorplatform

Speakers		Marion Guillou__ CCAFS Commissioner, President of the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) – via videolink Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt__ Lund University / SIANI Elwyn Grainger-Jones__ Executive Coordinator, Global Environment and Climate Change, IFAD – via videolink David Howlett__ Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture, DFID – via videolink

Keynote Presentation		Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: the Critical Role of Global Donors Marion Guillou – via videolink The significance of international donor institutions for attaining food security will be discussed with particular reference to the CCAFS Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change report “Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change”.

RSVP		This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by Monday, 4 June, 12:00 CET

// Provisional Programme

12:00–13:30 Getting to know the Global Donor Platform Sandwich lunch from 11.30

Introduction		Kerstin Jonsson Cissé, Platform focal point at Sida

About the Platform		Brian Baldwin, Platform co-chair

Platform Knowledge Exchange Tools		Pascal Corbé, Platform secretariat communications officer

		// Discusion

13:30-15:30 Food security and climate change

Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: the Critical Role of Global Donors		Marion Guillou, CCAFS Commissioner

Response from SIANI		Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Lund University / SIANI

Climate change initiatives__
__at IFAD		Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Director, Environment and Climate Division, IFAD
__at DFID		David Howlett, Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture, DFID

		// Discusion

		Coffee served