Publications
how to help 
featured publication 
Agriculture and Rural Development Day
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen - COP 15
Event Details
Copenhagen, DenmarkFaculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen
December 12, 2009
Dear Colleagues,
Please see this schedule (MS Excel) of Ecoagriculture Partners organized and ecoagriculture related events at COP 15 over the next two weeks.
At the Agriculture and Rural Development Day on December 12, Sara J. Scherr will be presenting at Roundtable 3 and Ecoagriculture Partners is organizing two Ideas Marketplace sessions.
Sara Scherr will be in Copenhagen December 10-13 and Seth Shames from December 9-14. Please contact Seth at sshames@ecoagriculture.org if you’d like to meet up.
Best,
Sara and Seth
Ecoagriculture Partners Events at the Agriculture and Rural Development day at the COP 15 (12 December 2009)
| Time | Program Title |
Speaker and Contact information |
Organization/Country | Program Summary |
| 1115-1300 |
Strategies and responses for adaptation of farmers and food systems | Lead Speaker: Dr. Adel El-Beltagy; Panelists: Dr. Marco Ferroni, Dr. Sara Scherr, Ms. Sarala Gopalan, Mr. Peter Kendall; Moderator: Samantha Wade |
International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) |
Even in the case of a stabilisation of GHG emissions, climate change will continue to challenge agriculture, increasing the vulnerability of ecosystems and rural populations. Farming and food systems will have to be better adapted to cope with the direct and indirect consequences of a changing climate. Farmers, both women and men, are well placed to implement sustainable agricultural practices that help adapt to climate change. This Roundtable will examine strategies and review existing responses to support farmers and food systems as they adapt to climate change. |
| 1430-1500 |
Ideas Marketplace Session 1: The state of agricultural landscapes GHG measurement |
Seth Shames, Antonio Bento, Sam Bell, and John Fay |
Cornell University and Ecoagriculture Partners | In this session: Seth Shames of Ecoagriculture Partners will provide a synthesis of news from key players in the field as they move towards filling key research and methodology gaps. Antonio Bento, Sam Bell and John Fay from the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) will discuss Community Markets for Conservation, a conservation agriculture initiative in Zambia, as an illustration of the technical challenges and emerging solutions for integrated MRV methodology. The discussion will explore unresolved technical and policy issues around agricultural landscape MRV, and ways to improve coordination to advance these methods. |
| 1515-1545 | Ideas Marketplace, Session 2 | Erick Fernandes, Stephen Muwaya, Sara Scherr |
Ecoagriculture Partners | In this session: Erick Fernandes of the World Bank will provide an overview of the benefits and challenges of the landscape approach to climate action. Stephen Muwaya will present the TerrAfrica platform for Sustainable Land Management, as an example of a coordinated investment program that can confront the challenges of agricultural landscape carbon projects and bring them to scale. Sara Scherr of Ecoagriculture Partners will facilitate a 15-minute discussion among participants about the approach and next steps to develop landscape climate action. |
