Farms

“We now have the largest youth and most restless generation in human history. Too many activities happen without input from young people.”  — Sithembile Ndema, FANRPAN Rural youth are the future of agricultural production — their engagement will determine future food production, and their actions will define how food production impacts the environment. They will […]

Why one billion farmers deserve better from COP19. What is it about agriculture that the world finds so hard?  We eat its products every day, after all.  Yet when it comes to adopting sensible policies for ensuring that people get fed, that farmers can make a living, and that agriculture does not contribute unnecessarily to […]

View session details here This presentation focuses on agricultural practices that potentially mitigate climate change, the influence of crop production on climate change and conclusions that can be drawn.

View session details here This presentation by Henry Neufeldt from ICRAF talks about climate-smart agriculture, the key areas of science innovation there, some farmer climate coping strategies, the constrains, the benefits and the key messages concerning CSA.

View session details here This presentation shows how the reduction of CO2 emissions in agriculture and the landscape approach are strongly related to each other based on a personal example of a farm in Poland.

View session details here This presentation by Marius van den Berg from the Institute for Environment and Sustainability explains briefly what climate-smart agriculture is what effects and interrelations farm management practices associated with CSA have, how CSA was adopted and which policies enabled it and what can be taken home from that.