OECD 2024 international conference

WaPOR will be present at the 2024 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference in Paris in segment 2 of session 5:

 

“Lessons from the field: How to achieve environmentally sustainable productivity in agriculture? Specific projects, approaches, practices and results” 

OECD Conference Centre Paris in person event with livestreaming
14:00 - 15:30 (The livestream links will be available on 28 October 2024 at 9.00 GMT+1 in the conference website)

The session will include brief presentations on a number of diverse, real-life examples of projects, approaches and practices that attempt to advance in sustainable productivity growth. The presentations will focus on the methods and data used to measure outcomes and progress, considering both intended and unintended impacts on social, economic, and environmental outcomes. Through the examples, the discussion will explore the indicators that are used to assess whether, in given settings, they are contributing to sustainable agricultural productivity. The session will underline the importance of consistent measurement and reporting, while emphasising the importance of multiple indicators to capture progress towards the diverse components of sustainable agricultural productivity and the measurement of potential trade-offs and synergies. The session could include researchers and practitioners/farmers alike.

 

Moderator: Spiro Stefanou – Administrator, Economic Research Service, United States Department for Agriculture.

Segment 1: Production practices for sustainable agricultural productivity

Discussant: Maria Vrachioli – Senior Research Staff, Technical University of Munich.

• Peter Minang – Director for Africa, Director for Africa, Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF);
• David Kenny – Head of the Animal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland;
• Jürn Sanders – President, FiBL Europe, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL);

Segment 2: Technologies for sustainable agricultural productivity:

Discussant: Marc Müller – Project Coordinator, Brightspace Project, Wageningen University & Research.

• Jiro Ariyama – Water Resources Management Expert, FAO;
• Tadashi Yoshihashi – Project Leader, Biological Resources and Post-harvest Division, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS);
• Everton Capote Ferreira – Postdoctoral Scientist, The Sainsbury Laboratory, 2Blades, Sainsbury Laboratory;

These segments will be followed by a discussion with the audience.