Being the CEO of a leading vegetable breeding company, I would like to draw the attention to the importance of access to genetic resources, not only for a climate resilient agriculture but also for food security as a whole. This item is touched up…

We welcome the initiative to tackle the important problems of agriculture, food security and climate change together as they are largely interdependent; also we welcome the development of an integrated road map for action.   Acknowledging t…

Following on from the It’s Down 2 Earth conference, the Farming First coalition welcomes the commitment to increasing agricultural productivity and on prioritising agriculture as a means for economic growth and poverty reduction. We, as a coalitio…

Christian Aid, together with ICCO, HIVOS and IFOAM, held a side meeting to present examples of best practice in agricultural adaptation, and then forwarded a set of recommendations to the Conference organisers. These recommendations were derived f…

Looking back on the conference let me first congratulate the Netherlands Government for successfully putting the issue of Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change on the global agenda and this is highly appreciated. In particular the Netherla…

The AFC conference resulted in a Roadmap for our future Climate Smart Agriculture. Agriculture is the way out of the problem of global food security. If the problem of land degradation is left without treatment, agricultural productivity can fail…

"The Conference aimed to develop a roadmap with concrete actions linking agricultural-related investments, policies and measures with the transition to climate smart growth". This was a most valuable objective and the fact that this conf…

The most important message from the conference is that Agriculture is not the problem, but the solution to achieve Food Security, Alleviate Poverty and Mitigate Climate Change. There is a wide variety of technologies to increase rural productivity…

During the It’s Down2Earth Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands (31October-5November 2010), two side-events on livestock were organized, by FAO and by Agri-Profocus respectively. These events yielded different – and in some way contradictory –…

Congratulations are due to the organizers of the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change on their initiative for the first global conference to bring together the agendas of agriculture, food security and climate change….