Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture. Title: Building Resilient Food and Agriculture Systems: Advancing actions from UN Climate Action Summit Speaker: David Howlett

1. 10 October 2019
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Building Resilient
Food and Agriculture
Systems:
Advancing actions from
UN Climate Action
Summit
Side Event

2. Today’s Objectives
1. Share outcomes from the UN Climate
Action Summit focusing on food and
agriculture systems.
2. Identify opportunities for you to be part
of ambitious actions to build resilient
food and agriculture systems.

3. • Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience range of initiatives, reports & events
related to food and agriculture including:
 Partnership for a Just Rural Transition to resilient food, land-use and eco-systems
 Redesigning, Repurposing and Reinvesting Public Support to Agrifood Sectors
 Global Commission on Adaptation action track on Agriculture and Food
Security for small-scale food producers
 Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use, Food
and Land Use Coalition (FOLU)
 Building a Resilient Future Day - Stepping up Actions to Build Resilient Food
Systems
• Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Manifesto
Now highlights and reflections from three speakers…….
Headlines from UN Climate
Action Summit (UNCAS)

4. Moderator:
• David Howlett, Head of Policy, Global Resilience Partnership
Speakers:
• Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Director of Agriculture, World Bank
• Giles Henley, CSA adviser, UK Dept. for International Development
• Rebecca Carter, Deputy Director, Climate Resilience Practice, World Resources
Institute
Reflections:
• Ana Maria Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Head of Global Policy Research, CCAFS
• Sithembile Mwamakamba, Senior Programme Manager, FANRPAN
• Linxiu Zhang, Director, UNEP Int. Ecosystem Management Partnership
Questions and Discussion
Agenda

5. Supported by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the MAVA
Foundation, Norway’s International Climate and Forest
Initiative (NICFI) and DFID
Report released at UNCAS - Growing Better: Ten
Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use
1: Promoting healthy diets
2: Scaling productive and regenerative agriculture
3: Protecting and restoring nature
4: Security a healthy and productive ocean
5: Diversifying protein supply
6: Reducing food loss and waste
7: Building local loops and linkages
8: Harnessing the digital revolution
9: Delivering stronger rural livelihoods
10: Improving gender equality & accelerating demographic transition
Country programmes in Australia, China, Columbia,
Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nordics and UK