FAO to Host Meeting on Climate-Smart Knowledge

By Staff Writer

ROME— civil society and non-governmental organizations will on November 29 gather at FAO headquarters – Rome, Italy to discuss how the climate-smart model can feed into their rural development work and share experiences on working with farmers to adapt to climate change.

A series of sessions will look at how making agriculture more “climate-smart” can simultaneously reduce farmers’ vulnerability to climate change and reduce the sector’s contribution to global warming. A new FAO report on how agriculture can become less dependent on fossil fuels will be presented during the event.

At a news conference held at it’s Rome headquarters on November 30, FAO will present the results of a new study of the world’s forest resources conducted using satellite imagery, which provides new information on the extent and rate of global forest losses.

FAO will release of new report on forest wildlife in a changing climate and provide a briefing on the results of its new remote sensing survey of world forests at the EU Pavilion, International Convention Centre – Durban. They will share details on a new initiative to support the transition to climate-smart agriculture, supported by the European Union.

FAO along with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) will provide information on how agriculture must undergo a radical transformation to meet the challenges of sustainable food security and poverty reduction with climate change. It will share approaches that increase both productivity and the resilience of livelihoods and ecosystems, plus how Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) lessons can inform progress.

According to FAO, Climate-Smart Agriculture is a transformative approach to food security, adaptation and mitigation.