Conf. Room 4

• Rural poverty
• Access to social services: water, sanitation, health care and clean energy
• Targeted support to small and women farmers
• Building human capital: education and training, in particular for girls and women

Panelists:

• H.E. Ambassador Olivier Belle, Belgium
• Dr. M. Taghi Farvar, IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
• Ms. Yacine Diagne, ENDA Tiers Monde
• Dr. Naresh Singh, Executive Director, Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor
• Mme Jeannette Gurung, Director, WOCAN and President of the Adelboden Group

Conf. Room 2
 

UN ECLAC region

Panelists:

• Ms. Ana Bianchi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina
• Mr. Sergio Zelaya, UNCCD Secretariat, Focal Point for LAC
• Ms. Marianne Schaper, Principal Officer, Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, UN ECLAC

UN ESCAP region

Panelists:

• Mr Sanjay Kumar, Deputy Inspector General, National Afforestation & Eco-development Board,
  Government of India
• Ms. Meena Bigli, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)
• Ms. Elenita C. Dano, Associate, Third World Network

Regional discussions will include:

• Presentations of the outcomes of the regional implementation meetings;
• Interactive discussions focusing, in particular, on region-specific barriers and constraints, as well as lessons learned and best practices, based on regional experiences; and
• Next steps

Conf. Room 4

• Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
• Water and agriculture
• Agricultural technology
• International agricultural trade and access to markets

Panelists:

• Ambassador Piragibe dos Santos Tarragô, Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations
• Prof. He Maochun, Agriculture Trade expert, Tsinghua University, China
• Dr. Christ Leaver, Emeritus Professor of Plant Science, Fellow of St. John's College, University of Oxford
• Senator Edgardo J. Angara, the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines
• Dr. John Pender, Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Conf. Room 2
 

UN ECE region

Panelists:

• Ms. Elisabeth Gauffin, Vice President, IFAP Development Cooperation Committee, Chair, Swedish Farmers' Federation
• Mr. Peter Creuzer, Head, Agency for Geoinformation, Land Development and Real Estate, Hanover, Germany
• Dr. Colien Hefferan, CSREES, USDA
• Mr. Jiri Hlavacek, Director of Department, Ministry of Environment, Czech Republic
• Ms. Nadine Gouzée, Task Force, Sustainable Development, Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium

Regional discussions will include:

• Presentations of the outcomes of the regional implementation meetings;
• Interactive discussions focusing, in particular, on region-specific barriers and constraints, as well as lessons learned and best practices, based on regional experiences; and
• Next steps

Conf. Room 6

International Partnership for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions

Conf. Room 6

Conf. Room 6

Conf. Room 6

Why partnerships are critical in addressing desertification and drought

Chair: Patricia Chaves, Senior Sustainable Development Officer, Division for Sustainable Development, UN DESA

Lead Discussants:

• Marc Paquin, Senior Advisor, Médiaterre, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and the Institut de lÉnergie et de l'Environnement de la Francophonie (IEPF)
• Michael Madjera, Federation of Evangelical Churches in Central Germany, Competence Platform on Energy Crop and Agroforestry Systems for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems (COMPETE)
• Elisabeth Barsk-Rundquist, Director of Strategic Programmes, The Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
• Friederike Knabe, Senior Research Associate, UNISFÉRA

Neck Area

• International Partnership for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions
• Farmers Relief Project

Conf. Room B

Sponsor: Government of Israel

Conf. Room B

Innovative Agriculture Financing in Africa

Sponsor: USAID

The Value Chain Approach for Economic Growth with Poverty Reduction

Sponsor: USAID

• The use of LADA (Land degradation assessment in drylands) for sustainable land management, reducing vulnerability and adapting to change
   
• Case studies and lessons learned from Land degradation and SLM assessment & monitoring in South Africa by Lehman Lindeque, LADA South Africa
   
• Use of Sustainable Livelihood, Ecosystem and DPSIR frameworks: Case study from LADA Senegal by Déthié Soumaré NDIAYE Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE)
   
• Linking Local Level Monitoring to Sustainable Land Management
   
• PRC-GEF Partnership on Land Degradation in Dryland Ecosystems ADB-4358 Project: Capacity Building in Combating LD by Dr. ZHANG Kebin, FAO-LADA China Task Force

Organized by: FAO

• CORE Organic and further: Transnational research to release the potential of organic farming to integrate food security and environmental preservation
   
• Food, Fairness & Ecology A vision for organic food and farming research 2025
   
• Exploiting the benefits of organic farming in the EU
   
• Ecologica - online learning in organic farming

Organized by: Slovenian EU Presidency and European Commission

• "Tree is Life" project - presentation

Organized by:  International Federation of Business and Professional Women

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