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FAO-OECD Expert Meeting on Greening the Economy with Agriculture

28.09.2011

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is collaborating with partners to analyze existing information and develop possible scenarios for Greening the Economy with Agriculture (GEA), including an evaluation of sustainability progress and gaps in the food supply chain to project food supply and demand towards 2050. In order to address these scenarios a joint FAO and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) meeting was held at its headquarters in Paris, France from 5 to 7 September 2011. The participation of select experts, in particular from developing countries, was facilitated by FAO. The meeting’s agenda items included low footprint and productive food and agriculture systems; decent rural livelihoods, green jobs and land tenure; resilience to shocks of low-carbon food systems; quality and health of green food; and policy coherence for GEA. The Mountain Partnership Secretariat also contributed to the meeting by providing FAO experts with a text on mountain systems that was included in the working documents for the preparation of "Food availability and natural resource use in a green economy context" GEA paper. This framework was presented by Ms Nadia Scialabba, Senior Environment and Sustainable Development Officer with FAO during the meeting in Paris.