Agenda and Presentations
 

Agenda and Presentations

Organic Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment

Wednesday 22 April 2009  
Iran Room, FAO, Rome

Welcome

12:00 hours

Søren Skafte, Deputy Permanent Representative of Denmark to FAO

12:05 hours

Christina Grandi, IFOAM Liaison Officer to FAO

12:10 hours

Alexander Müller, Assistant Director-General, Natural Resources

PRESENTATIONS

12:15 hours

Niels Halberg, Director, ICROFS, Denmark: Organic agriculture and the multi-dimensional challenges of future food and farming systems

12:30 hours

Urs Niggli, IFOAM World Board and Director of the Swiss Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL):
The role of organic agriculture in adaptation of farming to climate change and its mitigation potential

12:45 hours

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Director-General, Ethiopian Environmental  Protection Authority: Organic Agriculture – African perspectives

13:00 hours

Vitoon Panyakul, Director, Green Net, Thailand: Organic Agriculture – Southeast Asian perspectives

REPORT

 

Summary Report 

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

 

List of Participants