Presentation by Jeremy Bird, DG, International Water Management Institute, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Presentation by Robert Zougmore, CCAFS Regional Program Leader, West Africa, at the at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Presentation by Jeremy Bird, DG, International Water Management Institute, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Presentation by Robert Zougmore, CCAFS Regional Program Leader, West Africa, at the at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Agriculture has made an enormous environmental footprint and is making agricultural development risky. Green agriculture uses well developed modern farming and sustainability concepts to improve natural agricultural techniques. It also draws on green technology to enhance farming. This paper provides a brief introduction on green agriculture. Matthew N. O. Sadiku | Adedamola A. Omotoso | Sarhan M. Musa ""Green Agriculture"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29792.pdf
Paper Url : https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/other/29792/green-agriculture/matthew-n-o-sadiku
Renewable Energy and Agriculture: A Partnership for Sustainable DevelopmentIJMERJOURNAL
ABSTARCT: Agriculture is the sole provider of human food. Most farms machines are driven by fossil fuels, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and in turn, accelerate climate change. Such environmental damage can be mitigated by the promotion of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, biomass, small hydro, and biofuels. These renewable resources have a huge potential for agriculture industry. The concept of sustainable agriculture lies on a delicate balance of maximizing crop productivity and maintaining economic stability, while minimizing the utilization of finite natural resources and detrimental environmental impacts. Sustainable agriculture also depends on replenishing the soil while minimizing the use of non-renewable resources, such as natural gas, which is used in converting atmospheric nitrogen into synthetic fertilizer and mineral ores, e.g phosphate or fossil fuel used in diesel generator for water pumping for irrigation.Hence, there is a need for promoting use of renewable energy systems for sustainable agriculture e.g solar photovoltaic water pumps and electricity, greenhouse technologies, solar dryers for post harvest processing and solar hot water heaters. In remote agricultural lands, the underground submersible solar photovoltaic water pump is economically viable and also an environmentally friendly option as compared with a diesel generator set. This article details the role of renewable energy in farming by connecting all aspects of environment, societal change and ecology
Sustainable Agriculture And Environmental Protection Usda Weri Nri UnChristina Parmionova
The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), known by the name of its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland, was convened by the United Nations in 1983. The commission was created to address growing concern "about the accelerating deterioration of the human environment and natural resources and the consequences of that deterioration for economic and social development." In establishing the commission, the UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable development.
Wake up before it´s too late! Agriculture at the crossroads: Assuring food se...SIANI
Presented by Ulrich Hoffmann during the seminar How to Feed Nine Billion within the Planet’s Boundaries - Agroecology for Food Security & Nutrition organised by the SIANI Expert group on Agriculture Transformation on March 10, 2015. Read more here: http://www.siani.se/expert-groups/agriculture-transformation-low-income-countries-under-environmental-change
Climate change and sustainable intensification ILRI
Presented by Fentahun Mengistu (EIAR) at a Consultative Meeting on Strengthening CGIAR - EARS partnerships for effective agricultural transformation in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 4–5 December 2014
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Nepal Agricultural Economics Society (NAES) are jointly organizing Annual Conference of Nepal Agricultural Economics Society on February 13-14, 2015 at Conference Hall, Trade Tower, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal. During the annual conference of NAES, a special session on “Convergences of Policies and Programs relating to Sustainable and Climate Resilient Agriculture” is being organized. The aim of this special session is to showcase the studies and experiences in South Asian countries on climate resilient agriculture and how they can learn from each other to formulate progressive and sustainable policies to promote climate smart agriculture in a regional perspective.
Linking Practice to Policy Change for Food Security and Sustainable Natural R...Dr. Joshua Zake
This briefing paper presents Environmental Alert’s (EA's) perspectives, lessons and experiences in advancing policy and practice change for food security and sustainable natural resources management in this briefing paper. Particularly,
it highlights case studies of EA’s engagements on policy and practice change for sustainable land, land use and soil management; sustainable forestry, food security and urban agriculture. It was presented and discussed with stakeholders and EA partners during the Environmental Alert 20 year's celebration main event in 2008. in Kampala.
Introduction
UNEP’s report, Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about greening the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/1.0_Introduction.pdf
China’s global land investments SIANI expert group 1 st meeting SIANI
The first SIANI expert group meeting on China’s global land-investments was held at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Stockholm, on 18 October 2011. This report provides a brief summary of the content of discussion and a brief re-cap of the purpose of the expert group. It is primarily intended to “re-fresh” the memory of those that participated, and to give an indication to those that could not participate of what topics were discussed.
Agriculture has made an enormous environmental footprint and is making agricultural development risky. Green agriculture uses well developed modern farming and sustainability concepts to improve natural agricultural techniques. It also draws on green technology to enhance farming. This paper provides a brief introduction on green agriculture. Matthew N. O. Sadiku | Adedamola A. Omotoso | Sarhan M. Musa ""Green Agriculture"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29792.pdf
Paper Url : https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/other/29792/green-agriculture/matthew-n-o-sadiku
Renewable Energy and Agriculture: A Partnership for Sustainable DevelopmentIJMERJOURNAL
ABSTARCT: Agriculture is the sole provider of human food. Most farms machines are driven by fossil fuels, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and in turn, accelerate climate change. Such environmental damage can be mitigated by the promotion of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, biomass, small hydro, and biofuels. These renewable resources have a huge potential for agriculture industry. The concept of sustainable agriculture lies on a delicate balance of maximizing crop productivity and maintaining economic stability, while minimizing the utilization of finite natural resources and detrimental environmental impacts. Sustainable agriculture also depends on replenishing the soil while minimizing the use of non-renewable resources, such as natural gas, which is used in converting atmospheric nitrogen into synthetic fertilizer and mineral ores, e.g phosphate or fossil fuel used in diesel generator for water pumping for irrigation.Hence, there is a need for promoting use of renewable energy systems for sustainable agriculture e.g solar photovoltaic water pumps and electricity, greenhouse technologies, solar dryers for post harvest processing and solar hot water heaters. In remote agricultural lands, the underground submersible solar photovoltaic water pump is economically viable and also an environmentally friendly option as compared with a diesel generator set. This article details the role of renewable energy in farming by connecting all aspects of environment, societal change and ecology
Sustainable Agriculture And Environmental Protection Usda Weri Nri UnChristina Parmionova
The Brundtland Commission, formally the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), known by the name of its Chair Gro Harlem Brundtland, was convened by the United Nations in 1983. The commission was created to address growing concern "about the accelerating deterioration of the human environment and natural resources and the consequences of that deterioration for economic and social development." In establishing the commission, the UN General Assembly recognized that environmental problems were global in nature and determined that it was in the common interest of all nations to establish policies for sustainable development.
Wake up before it´s too late! Agriculture at the crossroads: Assuring food se...SIANI
Presented by Ulrich Hoffmann during the seminar How to Feed Nine Billion within the Planet’s Boundaries - Agroecology for Food Security & Nutrition organised by the SIANI Expert group on Agriculture Transformation on March 10, 2015. Read more here: http://www.siani.se/expert-groups/agriculture-transformation-low-income-countries-under-environmental-change
Climate change and sustainable intensification ILRI
Presented by Fentahun Mengistu (EIAR) at a Consultative Meeting on Strengthening CGIAR - EARS partnerships for effective agricultural transformation in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 4–5 December 2014
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Nepal Agricultural Economics Society (NAES) are jointly organizing Annual Conference of Nepal Agricultural Economics Society on February 13-14, 2015 at Conference Hall, Trade Tower, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal. During the annual conference of NAES, a special session on “Convergences of Policies and Programs relating to Sustainable and Climate Resilient Agriculture” is being organized. The aim of this special session is to showcase the studies and experiences in South Asian countries on climate resilient agriculture and how they can learn from each other to formulate progressive and sustainable policies to promote climate smart agriculture in a regional perspective.
Linking Practice to Policy Change for Food Security and Sustainable Natural R...Dr. Joshua Zake
This briefing paper presents Environmental Alert’s (EA's) perspectives, lessons and experiences in advancing policy and practice change for food security and sustainable natural resources management in this briefing paper. Particularly,
it highlights case studies of EA’s engagements on policy and practice change for sustainable land, land use and soil management; sustainable forestry, food security and urban agriculture. It was presented and discussed with stakeholders and EA partners during the Environmental Alert 20 year's celebration main event in 2008. in Kampala.
Introduction
UNEP’s report, Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about greening the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy
http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/1.0_Introduction.pdf
China’s global land investments SIANI expert group 1 st meeting SIANI
The first SIANI expert group meeting on China’s global land-investments was held at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Stockholm, on 18 October 2011. This report provides a brief summary of the content of discussion and a brief re-cap of the purpose of the expert group. It is primarily intended to “re-fresh” the memory of those that participated, and to give an indication to those that could not participate of what topics were discussed.
On the 11th September 2012, SIANI, FAO Norden, Sida and Svenska kyrkan held a seminar called "Cash Transfers, resilience and agriculture development". The role of cash transfers in the context of social protection in stimulating local production and increasing resilience’s of rural communities was discussed as well as a great many other related issues.The seminar was held in Stockholm and also broadcast over the internet.
Global Forest and Community Tenure Challenges by Jenny SpringerSIANI
Presented as part of the Seminar on Securing Forest and Community Land Rights - Challenges, Trends and Ways Forward. The seminar focused on forests and other off-farm areas that constitute vital resources for the food security and livelihoods of the rural poor in many developing countries. These lands are often used in integrated ways by local communities under communal customary arrangements while often formally owned by the state. Unclear land rights make these resources and associated livelihoods particularly vulnerable in the current context of increased demand for land; this needs to be better recognized and articulated in discussions on land rights and responsible land investments.
Implementing a Sustainable “ Food and Fuel ” System in Jatropha Plantation Ma...SIANI
Presented as part of the seminar: South at the Steering Wheel - Improving sustainability in land investment for bioenergy in sub-Saharan Africa
29th May 2012, 08:00 - 17:30
Naturvårdsverket (Swedish EPA), Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker: Professor Thomson Sinkala, Thomro farms (Zambia) and Univ. of Zambia
In his development of Jatropha based bioenergy, Professor Thomson Sinkala mentions the following issues as best solved in a system, where the different parts contribute to a commercial and sustainable whole in an integrated fashion rather than posing as individual risks for the investor:
Pest and Weed management
Pollination Improvement
Plant Fertilizer
Field fencing
Livestock and poultry feed (for the dry season)
In a similar way to Per Strömberg, at the same seminar, Thomson Sinkala argues that managing each challenge in a creative and adaptive way could mean profit both environmentally as well as commercially.
Being a young farmer what does it entail? by Denis Kabiito, Programmes office...SIANI
Presented as part of the "World Food Day 2014: A Spotlight on the Value of Youth in Family Farming" Event.
Swedish FAO committee invites you to celebrate World Food Day with a seminar focusing on youth and family farming. The seminar aims to raise the profile of family farming and to highlight its social, economic, environmental and cultural values specifically with regard to youth.
http://www.siani.se/event/WFD2014
Towards a Coherent Swedish Response to International Agricultural Development...SIANI
On Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 SIANI had the pleasure of coordinating the opening seminar to a four day writeshop on “Why Women Matter in Agriculture: Overcoming Gender Barriers to Agricultural Development”. The event, open to the public, and attended by over 50 participants, was designed as a kick-off for the writeshop deliberations which followed with a smaller group of invited experts.
The event took place at Sida Headquarters in Stockholm. It brought together speakers from Eastern and Southern Africa to discuss the role of women and the importance of gender in the contemporary agricultural development discourse.
Management of Ecosystem Services in Amazonian Smallholder Land Use SystemsSIANI
This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.
Diversity, Sustainability and Resilience in Natural Resource Management in Af...SIANI
This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.
The Swedish Initiative on Food Waste & Losses by Ulrika Francke, Swedish Boar...SIANI
Presented as part of the Side Event at CFS 41: "Collaboration-Led Waste Reduction: From Producer to Consumer".
In Sweden, Government policy supporting collaborations intended to reduce food waste and production losses has been a great success. In part, due to the specific policy for Global Development (PGD) which supports the creation of platforms for knowledge exchange and multi-sectoral collaboration. This side event will present a number of examples of this policy-led collaboration from the Swedish context relating to the reduction of food waste and production losses throughout the whole food chain, on a global scale.
http://www.siani.se/event/foodwaste_cfs41
Triple Green-Agricultural Management Interventions for a New Green RevolutionSIANI
This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.
Legal landscapes in biodiversity and social safeguards: presentationSIANI
Seminar on Landscapes in a Carbon Focused World 26 October 2012
SIANI, Focali & Naturskyddsföreningen organized a one-day seminar in Gothenburg.
Summary: Safeguards have gained momentum in the international environmental arena especially in action for REDD+ under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This presentation will address the way safeguards can be related to different biodiversity financing mechanisms, and learn from the REDD+ discussions under the UNFCCC. While scaling up biodiversity finance is key for achieving the three goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the development of new biodiversity financing mechanisms has also generated concerns over the potential problems, which span from generating financial speculation to affecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities. The presentation will examine legal landscapes that can be useful for developing and implementing safeguards related to biodiversity financing mechanisms in an equitable way.
Claudia Ituarte-Lima is Legal Advisor at the Resilience and Development Programme (Swedbio), at Stockholm Resilience Centre. She is an international public lawyer with theoretical and applied experience in both multilateral and community environmental issues. She holds a PhD from University College London, an MPhil from University of Cambridge, and diplomas from Bourgogne University in France, among other. Her distinctions include the Human Rights Award by American University, Washington College of Law. Her current interests are climate change and biodiversity laws and policies in relation to poverty alleviation, livelihoods and development. She holds visiting status at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and the Stockholm Environmental Institute.
Animal genetic resources for improved productivity under harsh environmental ...SIANI
Indigenous livestock breeds are well adapted to tropical and harsh environments, but usually rather unproductive. Therefore, crossbreeding with exotic breeds has been practiced, and often found to be successful in the first generation, but with disastrous results later on. Therefore, there is a great need for developing breeding strategies for specific populations of indigenous livestock, both in order to conserve genes necessary for survival under harsh environments, and for genetic improvement of productivity. The objective of this project is to explore the opportunities for genetic improvement of primarily two livestock populations considered of specific importance for food security in Eastern Africa, due to their resilience as regards adverse climatic stress or ability to withstand specific disease challenges in the tropics. In the first case, focus will be on the Red Maasai sheep and its crosses in Kenya and Tanzania. This breed has shown a high degree of resistance to gastrointestinal parasites and ability to withstand drought. However, there is no breeding strategy in place and this project will adopt a value chain approach with the farmers and retailers to establish appropriate breeding objectives and selection practices. We will furthermore study production systems, animal usage, survival, production, et cetera, using various interview methods and also further develop an already created production recording system. In the second study we have focused on comparing four Ethiopian cattle breeds with respect to trypanotolerance and productivity and found that one breed, the Sheko, is clearly superior. We will carry out a workshop with researchers, extension officers and farmers on how to amplify the genes for trypanotolerance into the cattle populations kept in tsetse infested areas.
Eco enterprises opportunity for greening economy in key sectorsJared Omondi Buoga
A presentation on opportunities for greening the economy in Key Sectors. Presented during the 5th National Youth Conference on Climate change at Mully Children's Home.
No sustainable development without hunger eradication
On the path to Rio+20, FAO calls for a future with both healthier people and healthier ecosystems
There is a renewed interest in the role of agriculture at the climate change negotiations, as evidenced by a number of interesting side-events during COP 16 in Cancun. The reason is simple: Agriculture and related activities account for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, most of which can be mitigated, an opportunity that policy makers simply cannot afford to miss. What’s more, some of the techniques that sequester carbon have the added advantage of building the water-retention capacity and nutrient content of soils, hence contributing to a triple-win situation where mitigation, adaptation and yield increases are all addressed.
In response to this, SIANI and Sida arranged a one-day workshop on the theme From Source to Sink: How to make Agriculture part of the Solution to Climate Change while contributing to Poverty Alleviation? The main purpose of the workshop was to link the multiple potentials of agriculture to other development goals such as over-all poverty alleviation and food security, with particular reference to the needs of smallholder farmers who make up 70% of the world’s poorest people.
Johan Swinnen and Channing Arndt
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change & Food Systems
Global Launch Event
MAY 12, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EDT
Findings of the sixth Global Environment OutlookKisrak Albahr
each slide in this presentation will have a learning objective presented. The purpose is to identify the main message that the presenter should be trying to convey with the slide and also to stress that we are trying to transfer knowledge, not simply raise awareness. In the transfer of knowledge there should retention of that knowledge so that eventually there may be action taken with that new knowledge. Awareness raising, on the other hand, may not lead to action being taken because the knowledge is not retained as readily.
For this slide, the presenter should be trying to convey appreciation their appreciation for the opportunity provided and also that the presentation provides a very high-level overview of the findings from the larger 700 page report, therefore some of the details may be lost.
Another key learning objective of the presentation is that, although GEO-6 presents quite a lot of negative information about the state of the environment, the overall thrust of the publication is optimistic and solutions-oriented, much like the cover of the publication, which tries to portray the sustainable world that we might all be living in by 2050.
Proposed speaking points
Thank you colleagues and I’d like to thank European Council for their generous invitation to review together the findings of the Global Environment Outlook.
I’d like to remind everyone that this is an overview of the main findings from the 700-page report and therefore we won’t really go into the finer details of the findings. Perhaps these can be covered in the question and answer session that will follow.
I’d like to first ask everyone to reflect on the cover of GEO-6. We have tried to provide a vision of what a sustainable world might look like in 2050 using this cover. Our hope is that readers might focus more on the positive and solutions-oriented messages in the report rather than the negative messages about the current state of our environment. We hope that you can each ‘imagine this world’ by looking at our cover, since this is the first step in achieving this world.
Johan Swinnen and Channing Arndt
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
Africa Discussion of IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report Climate Change & Food Systems
IFPRI Africa Regional Office
Author: Sara J. Scherr, Ecoagriculture Partners. Part of the keynote address at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry in Nairobi, Kenya. 24 August 2009.
Pollination knowledge exchange for food, nutrition and livelihood security in...SIANI
Pollination knowledge exchange for food, nutrition and livelihood security in South and Southeast Asia. Lotta Fabricius Kristiansen, National Competence Centre for Advisory Services, SLU Råd/nu.
Inclusive market development for urban and rural prosperitySIANI
Inclusive market development for urban and rural prosperity. Elisabet Montgomery, Senior Policy Specialist for Employment and Market Development at Swedish Agency for Development Cooperation, Sida
Fair and just food systems enabling local midstream businesses? What does it ...SIANI
Fair and just food systems enabling local midstream businesses? What does it take? Romina Cavatassi, Lead Economist with the Research and Impact Assessment division of IFAD
Agroecology as an approach to design sustainable Food SystemsSIANI
Agroecology as an approach to design sustainable Food Systems. Marcos Lana, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Crop Production Ecology (SLU) and General Secretary of Agroecology Europe (AEEU)
UN Food Systems Summit: Swedish National Dialogue Presentations (Morning Sess...SIANI
On the 25th of January 2021, the Swedish Food Systems Summit National Dialogue took place. This dialogue brought together representatives from various public sector agencies, food sector industries and research institutions, and was organised through a joint effort by the Swedish Government Offices, the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and SIANI. Here, different private and public actors presented on the topic of food systems and their work therein.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
2. SEI bridges science
and policy
• Independent, international research institute
• Established by the Swedish Government 1989
• Headquarters in Stockholm
• Supports decision making in the field of
sustainable development
7. www.siani.se melinda.sundell@sei.se
1. An independent, multi-stakeholder platform for
government, civil society, private sector, research
and education sectors
2. A network aiming to connect Swedish actors to
international policy processes related to agriculture
as driver of change in economic growth and
poverty alleviation, food security, climate change
and sustainable development.
agriculture matters
What is SIANI?
8. www.siani.se
melinda.sundell@sei.se
agriculture matters
How does it work?
Financed by Sida
Hosted by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Guided by an Advisory Group independent of both Sida
and SEI (13 members; 3 academia, 2 private sector, 4 government and 4 NGO/Civil Society)
Coordinated by a Secretariat (2.5 tjänster + interns)
Responsive to member input and initiative
10. www.siani.se
melinda.sundell@sei.se
agriculture matters
What does SIANI do?
Organises and facilitates seminars and workshops
Facilitates expert groups and issue based clusters
Synthesizes the understanding of specific issues in the
form of policy briefs and concept notes
Implements strategic initiatives at request of
government institutions
Facilitates dialogues, including member to member
contact on the website database
12. Global forces underlying food insecurity
• Poverty amidst abundance
(effective demand for food)
• Increased pressure on natural
resources (planetary boundaries)
• Climate Change (extreme weather
events and global warming)
• Population pressure (more & older)
13. Events in Sustainable Development
300 BC: Aristotle
Recognizes a tragedy of
commons-type problem
and the need to
conserve resources
1700s: a reaction against
mercantilism fuels activity
within sustainable
development discourse
1800s:
concerns
surrounding
population
growth begin to
mount
1972: UN Stockholm
Conference on the
Human Environment
1987: Publication of the
Brundtland Report by the
World Commission on
Environment & Development
1992: UN
Conference on
Environment &
Development and
Agenda 21
2000: Adoption
of Millennium
Development
Goals
2001: Kyoto
Protocol
negotiations
and signing
2002: Earth
Summit in
Johannesburg
15. 1. Integrate Food Security and Sustainable
Agriculture into Global and National Policies
• Requires trend reversal (1700-2011)
• Energy issues dominate global environmental
conferences and policies
• REDD—where is agriculture?
Emissions from forests are largely caused by agriculture
So REDD+ is largely to be achieved in the agriculture sector
Which means that climate-smart agriculture should be included in
REDD+ strategies and finance
16. 2. Significantly raise the level of global investment
in sustainable agriculture and food systems in the
next decade
17. Why Invest in Agriculture?
• Food Security
• Poverty Alleviation
• Employment Creation
• Carbon Sequestration
• Develop infrastructure &
ease urban congestion
These are discussed in detail
in the IFAD Rural Poverty Report
2011
Total average contribution to poverty
reduction from growth of agricultural, remittance
and non-farm incomes in selected countries
18. Investment in the agricultural sector:
government spending and donor aid declining
Share of total government spending on agriculture
Year Africa Asia Latin America Total (Weighted
Average)
1980 6.4% 14.8% 8% 11.3%
1990 5.2% 12.2% 2% 7.9%
2002 4.5% 8.6% 2.5% 6.7%
Source: DFID/ World Bank 2007
Donor Aid to developing countries: Share of agriculture
1980 20%
1990 15%
2006 4%
Source: IFPRI, April 2009
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19. Aid to agriculture is still relatively low
but may be reversing
Trends in aid to agriculture
Commitments 1973-2008, five-year moving averages and annual figures,
constant 2007 prices
Source: OECD-DAC (2010)
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20. 3. Sustainably intensify agricultural production while
reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other negative
environmental impacts of agriculture
• Include smallholders in the new food markets, which requires,
among other instruments, greater access to land and skills for the
new agriculture.
• Improve productivity in subsistence agriculture and provide social
assistance, together with payments for environmental services to
create incentives for conservation.
• Follow a territorial approach to promote the rural nonfarm economy
and enhance skills to give access to the jobs and investment
opportunities offered by growth of the rural nonfarm economy.
(recommendations found in IFAD Rural Poverty Report, 2011)
21. Will Conventional Agriculture be
Sustainable and be able to feed the
planet?
• Water use
• Fertilizer problems (peak oil
and runoff/eutrophication)
• Energy quotients
• Competition with non-
food crops
Currently, on a global basis, 69% of all water withdrawn for human use on an annual basis is
soaked up by agriculture (mostly in the form of irrigation); industry accounts for 23% and
domestic use (household, drinking water, sanitation) accounts for about 8%. These global
averages vary a great deal between regions. In Africa, for instance, agriculture consumes
88% of all water withdrawn for human use, while domestic use accounts for 7% and industry
for 5%. In Europe, most water is used in industry (54%), while agriculture and domestic use
take 33% and 13% respectively. (UN Figures, 2003)
22. Is Organic Agriculture a solution?
• Given market and policy constraints, certified organic
agriculture needs to be paid a premium to be competitive
• One alternative is to change these constraints so that
price systems reflect such considerations as carbon
footprint, ecosystem services, etc.
• Traditional agriculture is often ‖poverty organic‖, but not
certified and suffers from low productivity and low levels
of investment, both in financial and managerial terms
• Still, traditional agriculture produces 70% of the food
consumed
23. 4. Develop specific programmes and policies to assist
populations and sectors that are most vulnerable to climate
change and food insecurity
24. Climate Change and Food Security
• Climate induced food shortages: The next great
cause of conflict?
• To the extent that climate change causes
migration, this is always a source of conflict
• Climate change can undermine livelihoods and
exacerbate food insecurity by increasing risk
25. Who’s causing the conflict?
• If GHG emissions are
seen to be major
drivers of climate
change, then,
somewhat simplified,
the industrialized
world is creating
conflicts in the
developing world (this is
the perspective of the African
Union)
26. 5. Reshape food access and consumption patterns to
ensure basic nutritional needs are met and to foster
healthy and sustainable eating patterns worldwide
• Calories are
available
• Some/most calories
are from
carbohydrates
• People are (or are
not) being nourished
• They do NOT tell us
who is accessing
food, how and why?
• How expensive is
food in relation to
total income?
• How much food is
being wasted?
27. Already existing calorie deficits are compounded
by water stress and climate-related falls in
productivity
28. The effect of consumer demand and food
preferences
• Food preferences are learned
and can prove difficult to
unlearn, even in the face of
information
• Optimizing nutrition is not
always affordable
• Eating is not scientifically
fueling the human body, it is an
emotional activity above all
• Boycotts only function with
items that can easily be
foregone or substituted
29. Urban Agriculture?
• Urban ‖agriculture‖ will never produce food
in enough volume to be economically
significant for most crops
• Development of agricultural methods for
limited land resource is important in
poverty reduction
• In spite of its complementary role to rural
agriculture, urban agriculture can play a
vital role in sensitivizing normal people to
the complexity of biological production and
the quality possible in fresh produce
30. 6. Reduce loss and waste in food systems, targeting
infrastructure, farming practices, processing,
distribution and household habits
Perhaps the most important area for several reasons:
• No major breakthroughs in technology
required, more a question of management and
organization
• No more production resources (land & water)
required
• Individual and local action is possible and
significant
31. Food Waste and Consumers:
50 Percent of Food is Wasted Causing Water,
Food and Hunger Crisis (www.siwi.org)
To meet the challenge of feeding growing
populations and the global hungry, massive
reductions in the amount of food wasted
after production are needed.
The Stockholm International Water Institute
(SIWI), the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
and the International Water Management
Institute (IWMI) released on Thursday,
August 21, a policy brief ―Saving Water:
From Field to Fork – Curbing Losses and
Wastage in the Food Chain,‖ that calls on
governments to reduce by half, by 2025, the
amount of food that is wasted after it is
grown and outlines attainable steps for this
be achieved.
32.
33. Room for Improvement!
Food production &
Consumption unit are
the two areas with
most room for
improvement!
35. 7. Create comprehensive, shared, integrated information
systems that encompass human and ecologicial
dimensions
• More work for SEI. FAO and similar institutions