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Key messages from Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day, 3 December 2012. http://www.agricultureday.org
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Wrap up and key messages
Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day
3 December 2012, Doha, Qatar
PLAN AHEAD! “The UN has never faced such a comprehensive set of problems. These are crises that can’t be solved quickly.”
Qatar -‐ Drylands Theme “One third of the world’s populaPon lives in drylands.”
-‐ Food security a central issue
HolisPc soluPons
“Need a cross cuRng approach.”
-‐ Landscape approach to natural resources -‐ Water -‐ Social, Economic and Environmental dimensions
More than talking
“I’m not here just to talk. It is about being good stewards and transforming livelihoods.”
-‐ AcPon needs to arise from within sector
“Take it to the farmer” The reality is at the farm. The soluPons lie on-‐farm as well as in the policy sphere.
Scaleable SoluPons -‐ Land tenure -‐ Extension and educaPon -‐ Climate smart or Ecosystem agriculture -‐ Use of exisPng technologies and tech transfer -‐ Post harvest losses and food waste
Partnership
“Public -‐ Private – People” -‐ Need to inclusive and creaPve
Invest in Research Key areas: -‐ Extreme weather -‐ Water losses -‐ Emerging diseases, insect pest, and impacts on pollinators -‐ MUST INCLUDE FARMERS and VULNERABLE
PrioriPes for AcPon -‐ Finance, including smart public subsidies -‐ IncenPves -‐ Data gathering at local level -‐ Risk management -‐ EducaPon
On-‐Line -‐ How to link farming to UNFCCC -‐ Need for impact figures 13 million hectares of forest lost annually -‐ most tweeted -‐ Stressed landscapes exacerbate vulnerability
Trade-‐offs
“There are not as many trade offs as people think.”
-‐ It is not miPgaPon versus adaptaPon. -‐ Achieving adaptaPon can help address miPgaPon.
Frameworks Important
“I strongly believe we need a internaPonal protocol.”
FrustraPon
“Will we get to COP 100 with no food, no agriculture, no water?”
-‐sPcking points like trade, miPgaPon, adaptaPon
Plaborms outside UNFCCC -‐ UN Commicee on World Food Security -‐ Land Tenure Guidelines -‐ Sustainability iniPaPves
Walking the Talk “I want agriculture in!”
For sector: combined consideraPon of agriculture, forestry and land use, and their impacts on society
For countries: accountability domesPcally and in negoPaPons
Tough Issues Experience of REDD+ suggests talking about the issues and understanding the facts helps countries negoPate.
-‐ Drop the rhetoric
Food security, Agriculture, Landscapes, and
Livelihoods Macer.
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