The Second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change co-organized by Viet Nam and the Netherlands, in close collaboration with other partners, including FAO and the World Bank will look at strategies and practices that can take this comprehensive approach. The conference will be held on 3-7 September in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The conference will allow global leaders, practitioners, private sector, scientists, and civil society to share experiences and demonstrate how early action on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) can act as a driver of green growth. It will also be an opportunity to take stock of implementation of CSA since the First Global Conference in November 2010.
The conference will seek to:
• Find effective strategies and practices to scale-up the implementation of Climate-Smart Agriculture as a driver of green growth including approaches for aligning market incentives to catalyze CSA adoption;
• mainstream CSA within broader development goals, including delivery mechanisms for increasing smallholder productivity;
• address drivers and regulatory constraints to CSA development, with a particular focus on priorities for improving the enabling environment and for increasing private investment at all levels and scales through the value chain and
• promote a landscape approach, including enhancing linkages between agriculture and forestry.
The outcome of the Second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change, in Hanoi will contribute and link to a variety of international processes, in particular to the Rio +20 follow-up process and partnerships, the work of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), as well as the ongoing climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC.
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