FFF at Stockholm+50, 1 June 2022
In May 2021, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to bring the global environmental community together in Stockholm, Sweden for a major international environmental meeting on June 2 and 3 2022, the week of World Environment Day.
“Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity” (Stockholm+50) will take place five decades after the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. The event will provide leaders with an opportunity to draw on 50 years of multilateral environmental action to achieve the bold and urgent action needed to secure a better future on a healthy planet.
On the 1st of June, three separate but thematically linked dialogues will be organized at Sida in Stockholm, right before the official launch of the global environmental meeting Stockholm+50. The day will be filled with experiences from the ground on the agency of farmer and forest associations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, youth and women in the climate, biodiversity and food security crises. During this one day event at Sida, the FFF will be co-hosting with We Effect/Vi Agroforestry and Sida, a dialogue on channelling finance to smallholder forest and farm producers’ organizations for full spectrum climate action.
The FFF will be co-hosting, alongside We Effect/Vi Agroforestry and Sida, a dialogue on channelling finance to smallholder forest and farm producers’ organizations for full spectrum climate action at Stockholm+50. The event will take place on 1 June 2022, right before the official launch of the global environmental meeting.
From the ground up: channeling finance to smallholder forest and farm producers organizations for full spectrum climate action
1 June 2022, 13:15 – 14:45 (GMT+2)
The main objective of this hybrid event is to increase the visibility of forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) in delivering ‘full spectrum climate action’. It will explain what that means, and show how FFPOs can mobilise 1.5 billion smallholder producers to aggregate products from multiple smallholdings that mix biodiverse agriculture, agroforestry and natural forests, a vast collective pool of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. Pursuing market opportunities for diverse product baskets, they frequently also invest in wider goals that are central to sustainability, resilience and equity. Strengthening FFPOs in long term partnership, and channelling more climate finance through them, is a game changer for climate action that the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) invites you to join.
Speakers:
- Pauline Buffle, Senior Programme Officer, International Union for Conservation of Nature - Forest and Farm Facility
- Samuel Rono (Kenya), Programme Officer - Environment, Climate Change and Resilience, WeEffect/AgriCord
- Sophie Grouwels, Forestry Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Forest and Farm Facility
- Elizabeth Nsimadala, President, Easter African Farmers Federation (EAFF)
- Anna Tiblin, Secretary General, We Effect/Vi Agroforestry
- Lennart Ackzell, International Coordinator, Swedish Federation of Family Forest Owners, International Family Forestry Alliance
- Tiina Huvio, Chair Steering Committee, Forest and Farm Facility
- Elisabeth Simelton, Senior Policy Specialist, Agriculture, Sida
- Geoffrey Wanyama, CEO, FFSPAK, (video message)
Moderation: Anna Bolin, Programme Manager, Specialist biodiversity and natural resources, Sida
Organisers: We Effect/Vi Agroforestry and Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) – partnership between Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), International institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and AgriCord
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