Events
 

Visibility of EX-ACT worldwide

2012

 

September

EX-ACT training in France for GERES staff

June

Side-event co-organised by FAO, ADEME and IRD during Rio+20, presenting the study "Review of GHG calculators in agriculture and forestry sector, a guideline for appropriate choice and use of landscape based tools" (21 June)

March

EX-ACT training in Madagascar for researchers (Cirad), ministries of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry - environment, the University of Antananarivo, NGOs and other organisations (26-30 March)

Presentation of the tool during the conference of the Swedish National Board of Forestry (6 March)

Training session on EX-ACT co-organized with the  São Paulo State Secretary of the Environment and the World Bank (5-8 March) 

February

Participation to the Southern African Regional CAADP Forum organized by the SACAU (Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions) (20-21 february)

One-day introduction to the EX-ACT tool for North Korean experts (16 February)

Regional Ex-Act training in Bangladesh, in partnership with the Rural Development Academy of Bogra, targeting experts from Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Myanmar and the Asian Development Bank (6-8 February)

January

Regional Ex-Act training in South Africa, co-organized with CEEPA (University of Pretoria). Participants came from South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia (23-25 January)

Regional Ex-Act training in Mauritius, in partnership with the University of Mauritius, targeting experts from Seychelles, Madagascar and Mauritius (18-20 January)

2011

 

December

Workshop co-organized with SIANI (Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative) targeting the private sector (7-8 December)

November

Ex-Act training to master students of AgroParisTech Montpellier (29 November)

One day Ex-Act training in Chile for different Latin America countries (24 November)

Brief presentation of EX-ACT to policy makers during the High Level Policy Learning Program (HL PLP) (15 November)

October

Presentation of the tool to the workshop "Smallholder mitigation: whole farm and landscape accounting" in Rome, FAO HQ (27-28 October)

Ex-Act training in Uruguay, for experts from the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (14-16 October)

Mission in Kenya and Tanzania, within the framework of the MICCA program (Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture), with 2 EX-ACT trainings and a field study

A 2-day EX-ACT training at FAO-HQ (3-4 October)

August

Presentation of Ex-Act during the 4th Sino-French seminar on ecosystem carbon budget and regulation  in China (22-26 August)

July

Ex-Act training to master and PhD students of the University of Sao Paulo (18-19 July)


June

Field work in India on two World Bank projects (19-25 June)

Ex-Act training and application in Russia (1-3 June)

Presentation of Ex-Act to students at the Higher Institute of Agriculture of Lille, France 

Lad day 4. Participation to the one-day event organized by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and its partners (agenda).

May

Ex-Act training in Niger, within the framework of the Niger Community Action Project for Climate Resilience (9-15 May)

March

Ex-Act training for the team leaders of the Integrated Modern Agriculture Development Project in China (24-31 March)

Presentation during the Agriculture and Rural Development Days (ARD), Washington, United states (22-24 March)

"Carbon Management in Agriculture" Workshop, Izmir, Turkey (1-4 March)

February

EX-ACT training targeting the SIANI network in the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm, Sweden (21-23 February)

EX-ACT training in the African Development Bank (AfDB), Tunis, Tunisia (9-12 February)

January

Presentation to the Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise d'Energie (ADEME). Angers, France (4 January)

2010

 

December

Presentation of EX-ACT during the Agriculture and rural development day 2010 held in parallel to COP16. Cancun, Mexico (4 December) 

November

Presentation to the Trade Standards Practitionners Network (TSPN) International conference " Standards for a Sustainable Agriculture and the Mitigation of Climate Change". Bern, Switzerland (17-18 November)

EX-ACT training during the International seminar " Agriculture and Climate change, innovations, policies and institutions", Santiago, Chile (12 November)

October

Presentation to the African Development forum (ADF VII), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (10-15 October)

Presentation to the EastAgri annual meeting 2010, Istanbul, Turkey (13-14 October)

September

Presentation to the African Development Bank during the FAO-AfDB Eight thematic meeting, Tunis, Tunisia (23-24 september)

July

Classroom session during the InWent training "Statistics for Climate Change Policies in Sub-Sahara Africa", Bonn, Germany (20 July)

June

EX-ACT training during FAO Climate Change Days, Roma, Italy (24 June)

March

OECD Workshop on Agri-environmental indicators, Leysin, Switzerland (23-26 March)

January

Cerri et al. (2010). Scientia agricola. GHG mitigation options in Brazil for LULUCF were quantified with two complementary approaches: a) following the IPCC 1996 guidelines; and b) based on EX-ACT.

2009

 

October

Bangkok: UNFCCC technical workshop on advancing the integration of approaches to adaptation planning

Presentation to Leicester University

September

Pennsylvania

July

Brussels GDP

May

Cairo UNFCC technical workshop

EX-ACT design

2010


March

Training material (power points, website, articles)

February

Peer review of EX-ACT

February

Finalized beta version

January

Preparation of technical guidelines

 

2009

September-March

Continuous pre-testing of different versions using case studies

September

First internal review workshop in FAO

June - October

Use of EX-ACT in pilot desk and field case studies: 'Brazil, China, Eritrea, Madagascar, United republic of Tanzania'

June-December

Presentations to IFAD, GDP, UNFCC

July

First version of EX-ACT

April - June

Tool design

February

Agreement between three FAO divisions (TCI-TCA-ESA)

2008

October

Terms of reference. To prepare a concept note: towards a Project-Programme-Policy Climate Change Carbon-fixing Impact Appraisal method