This document outlines an action plan for transitioning the global food system to 100% agroecology. It summarizes key findings from the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) report that business as usual is not sustainable and a fundamental shift is needed. The plan calls for interventions at multiple levels including policies, institutions, and research to support agroecological practices that are sustainable, equitable and address multifunctionality through a systemic approach. Modeling shows that modest global investments of 0.1-0.16% of GDP annually could help transition food production to nourish the world population through 2050 in an environmentally and socially sustainable way.
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 on success stories and challenges ahead to make global agriculture more climate smart. Brownbag presentation in the WorldBank on 15th May by Andy Jarvis from the CCAFS program of the CGIAR.
Presentation from Pablo Tittonell, Wageningen University, on the history, concepts behind and challenges for Agroecology. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Presentation from Ravi Prabhu, Director of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), outlining the role of Agroforestry in strengthening food security. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
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 on success stories and challenges ahead to make global agriculture more climate smart. Brownbag presentation in the WorldBank on 15th May by Andy Jarvis from the CCAFS program of the CGIAR.
Presentation from Pablo Tittonell, Wageningen University, on the history, concepts behind and challenges for Agroecology. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Presentation from Ravi Prabhu, Director of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), outlining the role of Agroforestry in strengthening food security. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
How to achieve climate-smart agriculture and the potential triple-win that can be achieved from these practices such as adaptation, mitigation and increasing livelihoods.
Enhancing the roles of ecosystem services in agriculture: agroecological prin...FAO
Presentation from Etienne Hainzelin from CIRAD, describing the principles of agroecological systems and the role of research within these. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/afns/en/
Presentation from Fernando Funes-Monzote, Latin American Scientific Society for Agroecology (SOCLA) describing options for integrated production of energy and food in agroecological systems. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Keynote speech by Mark Shepard on november 24, 2015 in Wageningen University, The Netherlands and on the Van Akker naar Bos (from Field to Forest) conference on november 28 2015
Agroecology: Applying Ecological Principles to Agriculturecwrobel
The presentation begins with a history of agriculture and then outlines conventional practices and the associated emergent challenges. The value of applying ecological principles to conventional agriculture is discussed with supporting evidence from various studies. The application of ecological principles is explored in the context of agricultural sustainability.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
How to achieve climate-smart agriculture and the potential triple-win that can be achieved from these practices such as adaptation, mitigation and increasing livelihoods.
Enhancing the roles of ecosystem services in agriculture: agroecological prin...FAO
Presentation from Etienne Hainzelin from CIRAD, describing the principles of agroecological systems and the role of research within these. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/afns/en/
Presentation from Fernando Funes-Monzote, Latin American Scientific Society for Agroecology (SOCLA) describing options for integrated production of energy and food in agroecological systems. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Keynote speech by Mark Shepard on november 24, 2015 in Wageningen University, The Netherlands and on the Van Akker naar Bos (from Field to Forest) conference on november 28 2015
Agroecology: Applying Ecological Principles to Agriculturecwrobel
The presentation begins with a history of agriculture and then outlines conventional practices and the associated emergent challenges. The value of applying ecological principles to conventional agriculture is discussed with supporting evidence from various studies. The application of ecological principles is explored in the context of agricultural sustainability.
Author: Sara J. Scherr, Ecoagriculture Partners. Part of the keynote address at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry in Nairobi, Kenya. 24 August 2009.
Kevin Litwiller - Director of Business Develoment for Lystek International presents the changing trends and landscape of wasterwater biosolids and residuals management. The key points made include:
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Farmer's Agribusiness Training Course: Module 2 - Sustainable Agriculture. Le...Saide OER Africa
This Farmers' Agribusiness training course has been developed to help both farmers and farmer organisations. Its intention is to provide access to additional skills and knowledge that will allow farmers to move from a 'farm' to a 'firm'. Module 2 looks at sustainable agriculture. This lesson deals with vital agricultural inputs and resources, balancing of output and input requirements and helps the learner to understand improvement measures for agricultural resources available to them.
Farmer's Agribusiness Training Course: Module 2 - Sustainable Agriculture. Le...PiLNAfrica
This Farmers' Agribusiness training course has been developed to help both farmers and farmer organisations. Its intention is to provide access to additional skills and knowledge that will allow farmers to move from a 'farm' to a 'firm'. Module 2 looks at sustainable agriculture. This lesson deals with vital agricultural inputs and resources, balancing of output and input requirements and helps the learner to understand improvement measures for agricultural resources available to them.
Irstaskolan har arbetat med Energifallets högstadiespecial under våren 2016. Här delar de med sig av hur de arbetade med Energifallet i klassrummet. Bildspelet visar en återbruksuppgift som åk 9 fick i ämnena slöjd, bild, teknik och hem- och konsumentkunskap.
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Hur gör vi då? - ekonomin, klimatet och framtiden är titeln på Naturskyddsföreningens stora årliga konferens den 23/11 2012. Den här presentationen var en del av en heldag med förhoppningen att komma ett steg närmare lösningen på frågan om hur vi tar oss ur både klimatkris och ekonomisk kris. Se livesändningen på http://naturskyddsforeningen.se/live
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1. 100% agroecology will nourish the
world!
Action plan for changing
course in agriculture
Swedish Society for Hans R. Herren
Nature Conservation (SSNC)
April 25, 2012 President www.millennium-institute.org
Stockholm President www.biovision.ch
Co-Chair IAASTD www.agassessment.org
Coordinator UNEP GER Agriculture Chapter
2. Who said that we need to change course?:
The IAASTD Reports…and then others, in different ways
(www.agassessment.org)
Multi-stakeholder: 400 authors, 52 countries
Multi-disciplinary
Multi-locational: Global / sub-Global Reports
3. IAASTD: Key findings
1. We feed only 6 out of 7 billion people with the present food
system (but have enough for 14 bn)….in addition, we count 1.5
billion obese and 300 million diabetes 2 cases
2. The industrial food system uses some 10 Kcal to produce one,
energy problem
3. The industrial and conventional food system (incl. the
traditional systems are a major part of the CC problem
4. Soil degradation, water shortages & biodiversity loss underlie
food security, natural resource problem
5. Jobs, Industrial agriculture emptied the rural areas and
multidisciplinary research labs, social problems
6. Unfair trade works against the small-scale famers and the
poor, economic and social problems
Business as usual is not an option
4. What’s the plan forward?
Different intervention levels (all with multistakeholder
approaches) for planning (it’s a system), implementation and
monitoring the new paradigm (multifunctional agriculture)
1. Policies (informed via
assessments, i.e., IAASTD, implementation via
policies,.i.e., AU-EOA Initiative; land reforms, etc..)
2. Institutions (reformed to support agroecological
agriculture, i.e., reassign perverse subsidies)
1. R&D (in support of the new paradigm, with emphasis on
women, resilience
Actors: Producers, Suppliers /
Buyers, Processors, Consumers, Policy Makers
5. Food security…..is
“a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical,
social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious
food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for
an active and healthy life” (FAO)
……is built on:
• food availability: sufficient quantities of nutritious food are
available on a consistent basis
• food access: nutritious food is affordable for all people
• food stability: Not bumper yields, but stable yields as expected
from resilient system are needed
• food use: knowledge of basic nutrition, access to adequate
water and sanitation, safe processing and handling
…….and implies multifunctionality
6. IAASTD: Showing the right road
1. “a fundamental shift in AKST and the connected
• agri-food system policies; • institutions; • capacity
development; and • investments”
2. Paradigm change: Transition to sustainable /agro-ecological /
organic agri-culture
3. An agriculture that addresses the multifunctionality and
resilience needs of the small-scale and family farmers (social &
economic: equity issue, farmer status, land ownership, empowerment, women),
quality job creation (Edu at all levels);
4. Need to use a systemic and holistic approach (basic ecological
principles); treat cause not symptoms; is part of the solution to
hunger, poverty, health, natural resources conservation, CC
5. Good governance and new Institutions
7. Ecological agriculture as the main solution:
Multifunctionality paradigm for sustainable agriculture and food
system
equitable livable
sustainable
viable
9. Changing behavior: consumption defines production
Encouraging a
wider genetic
base in
agriculture…trees
, fruits, grains,
vegetables, lost
crops, animals
for nutrition and
health, cultural
diversity,
incomes, pest
control, resilience
to climate change
Barilla, 2011
10. Green way ahead: is knowledge intensive
• Improve and expand extension services (ITC)
• Introduce capacity building (ITC)
• Agriculture is very localized = local solutions
• AU Ecological/Organic Ag initiative (Head of State)
12. Transformation…..the never ending debate…and
the image problem…..
• Can organic/agroecological based agriculture feed the
planet?
(and who can afford it?)
(wrong question, as one should ask:
• Does the present industrial / conventional (green
revolution) model which is being promoted?
• How can we nourish 9.5 billion people; eradicate
hunger and poverty; assure rural livelihood (jobs);
eradicate inequities; assure good nutrition and
health; and do all this in a socially, environmentally
and economically sustainable manner (back to the top)
13. Can it be done?: scenarios from the UNEP GER ag
chapter 2011
Global investments across sectors (1% and 2% of GDP, Stern
report); 0.1% and 0.16% of GDP invested in agriculture for:
- Pre harvest losses (training activities and effective bio-
pesticide use)
- Ag management practices (cover transition costs from till
to no till, organic, agroecological agriculture, training, access
to small scale mechanization)
- R&D (research in soil science and agronomy, crop
improvement (orphan crops), appropriate mechanization, and
more)
- Food processing (better storage and processing in rural
areas, efficient processing, marketting)
14. The forward looking scenarios:
Approach and methodology
Water Water Water stress
efficiency demand
Agriculture
labor
Sustainable
mgmt. Agriculture
capital
Natural crop yield Effective crop yield
Forest land per ha per ha
Soil
quality
Organic Pre harvest
fertilizer losses
Fertilizer use
Chemical
fertilizer R&D
Harvested
area
Oil price
GDP Agriculture
production
Population
15. Yes…..(UNEP GER Report – 2011),
Investing 0.1% or 0.16% of total GDP ($83-$141 Billion) / year
Year 2011 2011 2050
Scenario Unit Baseline Green BAU
Ag production Bn US$/Yr 1,921 2,852 2,559
Crops Bn US$/Yr 629 996 913
Employment M People 1,075 1,703 1,656
Soil quality Dmnl 0.92 1.03 0.73
Ag water use KM3/Yr 3,389 3,207 4,878
Harvested land Bn ha 1.20 1.26 1.31
Deforestation M ha/Yr 16 7 15
Calories p/c/day for
consumption Kcal/C/D 2,081 2.524 2.476
16. In conclusion
The change that is needed will first start with each of us…
….then as a group of like minded we need to:
• take a medium and long, holistic, multifunctional and
systemic view in addressing multiple challenges
• invest more in (agro-ecological -research, -extension, -
education
• focus on the finality of agriculture and food systems: health,
equity and cultural diversity
• support changes in governance (be active in policy design to
end perverse subsidies and favor a true food pricing policy)
• Invest in enabling conditions
……and yes it can be done, so lets do it NOW
17. From Stockholm 72 to Rio 92 to
Jo‘burg 02 to Rio 12 (Rio+20)
92: Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEA)
• (UNFCCC); (CBD); (UNCCD)
02: IAASTD
11: IPBES
12: Governance, Institutions and Green Economy
(IAASTD implementation via CFS)
18. You cannot solve the problem with the same
kind of thinking that created the problem
Albert Einstein
www.millennium-institute.org &
Thank you
http://www.biovision.ch
Editor's Notes
13.00 Welcome and SSNCs new agriculture report SvanteAxelsson, Secretary General,Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) 13.20 Sweden towards Rio +20 Magnus Kindbom, State Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development 13.40 Agriculture in the Green Economy Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Directorand Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations 14.00 Africa can feed it self Sue Edwards, Director,Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) 14.20 How to produce food, protect the environment and generate income for farmers André Goncalves, Technical Coordinator, Centro Ecologico and Professor Agroecology, Instituto Federal Catarinense14.35 Coffee 15.05 The potential of a productive, fossil fuel free agriculture based on ecosystem services Johanna Björklund, Teaching Professor Agroecology, Örebro University 15.20 Case, the Philippines Chito Medina, Director, MASIPAG 15.35 Action plan for changing course in agriculture Hans Herren, Director, Millenium Institute 15.55 The way forward – discussion 17.00 End
The prevalence of diabetes has reached epidemic proportions.WHO predicts that developing countries will bear the brunt of this epidemic in the 21st century. Currently, more than 70% of people with diabetes live in low- and middle income countries.An estimated 285 million people, corresponding to 6.4% of the world's adult population, will live with diabetes in 2010. The number is expected to grow to 438 million by 2030, corresponding to 7.8% of the adult population.While the global prevalence of diabetes is 6.4%, the prevalence varies from 10.2% in the Western Pacific to 3.8% in the African region. However, the African region is expected to experience the highest increase.70% of the current cases of diabetes occur in low- and middle income countries. With an estimated 50.8 million people living with diabetes, India has the world's largest diabetes population, followed by China with 43.2 million.
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