This side event will provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) offers. The panelists will deliberate on the role of ecosystems as ‘natural’ adaptation infrastructure and assess the effectiveness of investing into EbA for enhancing the resilience of communities & ecosystems.
Read More »COP 22 IFAD INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
COP 22 IFAD INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Three quarters of the poorest people in the world live in the rural areas of developing countries. Most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change, a growing global population, and volatile food and energy prices have the potential to push ...
Read More »COP 22 The Role Of Farmers In The Implementation Of The Paris Agreement Part 2
Farmers’ role in building Climate Smart Agriculture through Scientific Agriculture, Soil Health, Water Harvesting, Micro Irrigation. It showcases approaches & capacity support to strengthen citizens’ role in implementing INDC’s at national level & promotes best practices-Haiti to tackle climate change. They are very embedded in the sustainability challenge that the ...
Read More »Interview with Prof Mohammed Boulif of National School of Agriculture, Morocco
In an exclusive interview with Mother Channel, at COP 22 conference, Professor Mohammed Boulif, Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Protection, National School of Agriculture, Meknes, Morocco, speaks on his focus of bringing students to understand farmers’ practices to control plant diseases in order to be able to change ...
Read More »COP 22 The Role Of Farmers In The Implementation Of The Paris Agreement Part 1
Farmers’ role in building Climate Smart Agriculture through Scientific Agriculture,Soil Health,Water Harvesting,Micro Irrigation.It showcases approaches & capacity support to strengthen citizens’ role in implementing INDCs at national level & promotes best practices-Haiti to tackle climate change.
Read More »Future of Agriculture in Morocco with Prof. James Burleigh
In an exclusive interview with Mother Channel, at COP 22 conference, Professor James R. Burleigh, USA soil scientist from Sante Fe, Mexico, speaks on his current training program at ENA – Ecole Nationale D’Agriculture de Meknès, Morocco, with Prof. Mohammed Boulif (Prof. of Agriculture, Morocco) covering mainly agricultural research methodologies, ...
Read More »COP 22 Methane Emissions in Livestock ~ Managing Impacts
A Q&A Discussion Panel of experts from Uruguay, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica and Brazil, address the issues of mitigation impacts in livestock production systems and share how they are managing their measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems in terms of livestock emissions and to identify practical innovations for the collection ...
Read More »COP 20 Presenter on Organic virus free crop seeds
COP 20 LIMA Presenter on: Importance of organic virus free crop seeds, companion planting trees, fruit trees and food crops which create a more bio-diverse ecosystem and resilient farming base. Recommendations on best practices of seed sources and collection. Combining conservation with restoration efforts
Read More »COP 20 FSC & Landscape.org interviews on FSC certification & Peru crop faming at higher elevations
COP 20 LIMA Interview with FSC spokesperson on: Protection of forest bio-diversity, soil, waterways are checked controlled by certified organisations. Non compliance will result in the loss of FSC certification. Interview with spokesperson from Landscapes.org on impacts of growing potato crops at higher than normal elevations in Peru, due to ...
Read More »COP 20 Smallholder Farming Systems for Future Resilient Agriculture
In an interview at COP 20, Lima, with a speaker from Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA), who spoke on the issue of smallholder farmers having the simultaneous roles of ‘Risk’ and ‘Information’ managers in today’s farming environments with the added complexities and challenges of climate change as well. In terms ...
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