RT @hivosorg: Networking Farmers: a 2-year @agriprofocus & Hivos programme to promote #farmer #entrepreneurship in #EastAfrica https://t.c…Date: Friday September 12th, 2014
Time: 13.00-17.30h
Venue: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
The Dutch government and the EU are developing their positions and policies in the area of sustainable agriculture. Minister Ploumen and Secretary of State Dijksma plan to submit a joint Food Security policy note to parliament on World Food Day, 16 October 2014, which will include an important section on agro-ecology. Sustainability is also at the heart of the UN negotiations about a new Post-2015 development agenda.
This is the right moment to influence policy! On September 12th, the Agri-ProFocus partnership organises an Expert Meeting ‘Vision 2030: making current approaches work for sustainable agriculture. How can agro-ecology and other approaches support farmers to feed the world sustainably by 2030’. We invite experts and professionals from civil society, private sector, academia and the public sector (max. 80), whose expertise, knowledge and experiences are highly valuable in this debate.
The participants will jointly tackle a set of challenging questions:
Are approaches like “agro-ecological” and “climate-smart” agriculture or the “landscape approach” effective to feed the world sustainably by 2030? What do these concepts mean in practice? Can these approaches support farmers and their organisations in low and middle income countries towards optimising and up-scaling their contribution to food security, locally and globally?
Experts from the private sector, civil society, and knowledge institutions will share their practice and their expertise:
| PROGRAMME | ||
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Guided Tour Naturalis Museum (optional) | |
| 13.00 – 13.30 | Arrival | Registration |
| 13.30 – 14.45 | Plenary session
Facilitation by Cora van Oosten (WUR/CDI)
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- Opening. By Hedwig Bruggeman (Director Agri-ProFocus) and Cora van Oosten (Wageningen UR/CDI)
- Agro-ecology: What it is, what it has to offer, and how agro-ecological practices could be more widely adopted.By Laura Silici (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Foster sustainability in the value chain. - Diversifying knowledge systems to foster effective sustainable agriculture in practice. Skype interview with Million Belay(Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa)
- The Fertile Grounds initiative: Stakeholder collaboration for effective integrated soil management. By Christy van Beek (Wageningen UR/Alterra) |
| 14.45 – 15.00 | Break | |
| 15.00 – 15.45 | Discussion groups | Participants will share experiences from practice. This will be the basis to discuss how to foster the mainstreaming of sustainability aspects within different farming systems and value chains.
- Workshop 1: “Make markets work for greening agriculture”
- Workshop 2: “Develop knowledge, science and practice for greening agriculture”
- Workshop 3: “Support sustainable land use by and for farmers”
- Workshop 4: “An enabling policy environment”
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| 15.50 – 16.00 | Plenary | Key messages and recommendations from workshops. |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Panel discussion | Participants: Edith van Walsum (Ileia), Peter Maes (Koppert BV), Laura Silici (IIED), Johan Gatsonides (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and Marcel Beukeboom (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). |
| 17.00 – 17.15 | Conclusions | |
| 17.15 – 18.00 | Cocktail |
In case you would like to join the event, or are interested in receiving the meeting report afterwards, please contact [email protected]
The organising committee for this meeting consists of: Peter Ton (Cordaid), Wim Hiemstra (ETC), Nathalie van Haren (Both ENDS), Heleen Bos (Rijk Zwaan), Christy van Beek (WUR/Alterra), Nicole Metz and Hedwig Bruggeman (Agri-ProFocus).