Climate Change

CCAFS Call for proposals: Communications and social learning in climate change

[ August 3, 2011 2:00 pm to August 16, 2011 3:00 pm. ] CGIAR centre for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) – Funding Opportunity for a strategy development for climate change communications and social learning.

Climate Change, Food Security and Resilience of Food and Agricultural Systems in Developing Countries: Mitigation and Adaptation Options

[ November 25, 2010 to November 27, 2010. ]  

In November 2010, the Food Security Center of the University of Hohenheim holds the 117 Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE) with the title: Climate Change, Food Security and Resilience of Food and Agricultural Systems in Developing Countries: Mitigation and Adaptation Options.

The purpose of this seminar is to investigate the economics of climate change [...]

Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty: the Role of Indigenous Peoples

[ October 24, 2010; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] On behalf of the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty, being guided by Mr Phrang Roy, we wish to invite you to our Terra Madre Earth Workshop event titled “Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty: the Role of Indigenous Peoples” to be held on Sunday 24 October at 15h00 in Turin, Italy.

Slow Food has entered into [...]

COP 10 – the Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

[ October 18, 2010 to October 29, 2010. ] The Conference of the Parties is the governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and advances implementation of the Convention through the decisions it takes at its periodic meetings. To date the Conference of the Parties has held 9 ordinary meetings, and one extraordinary meeting (the latter, to adopt the Biosafety Protocol, was held in [...]

Strengthening What Works – Recognising and supporting the conservation achievements of indigenous peoples and local communities

[ October 21, 2010; 11:15 am to 2:45 pm. ] CBD COP 10 Side-Event -Thursday, 21 October 2010

1.15pm to 2.45pm – Room 234C Bldg 2 – 3rd Floor, Nagoya – Japan

Territories and sites conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) are a phenomenon of global significance for the earth’s biodiversity, livelihood security, cultural diversity, and meeting a host of other human development objectives. Properly [...]