Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Platform Dialogue Food security and climate change


7 June. Stockholm/Sweden. Sida Offices. This first Platform dialogue kindled great interest among the ARD community. In addition to the 45 attendees present in Stockholm, over 300 participants tuned into the event via live webstream — immediately reaching the maximum capacity that had been set for the event.

Marion Guillou (CCAFS Commissioner) presented the Commission’s Report Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change, to which Agnes Andersson Djurnefeldt (Lund University) responded with findings from her research. Elywn Grainger-Jones (IFAD) and David Howlett (DFID) presented the climate change initiatives from the perspectives of a multilateral and bilateral institution respectively.

Speakers commented and built on each other’s work, eliciting many and diverse questions from both the onsite and virtual audience. The recording of the presentations and discussion is available below, as well as powerpoint slides and a short summary report of the discussion.

//  Getting to know the Platform


Introduction
Kerstin Jonsson Cissé, Platform focal point at Sida
About the Platform
Brian Baldwin, Platform co-chair
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Platform Knowledge Exchange Tools
Pascal Corbé, Platform secretariat communications
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Discussion
Melinda Sundell, SEI network

//  Food security and climate change


Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: the Critical Role of Global Donors
Marion Guillou, CCAFS Commissioner
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Response from SIANI
Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Lund University / SIANI
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Climate change initiatives at IFAD
Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Director, Environment and Climate Division
Climate change initiatives at DFID
David Howlett, Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture
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