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"Agriculture: Nourishing people without biting the climate"
last update: Mar 04, 2009 02:19 PM
As a result of a multi-stakeholder dialogue the final version of a study was presented in the beginning of this year by a unique expert group, composed of government officials, UN agencies, business and civil society, which can be interpreted as a paradigm shift in global agriculture and environment policies.
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Mar 17, 2009 from 05:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
| Where | European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium |
| Contact Name | MEP Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf |
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Panel discussion with:
Hans Herren (Millenium Institute, Washington)
Barbara Unmüssig (Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin)
This "International Assessment of Agriculture, Science, Technology and Development" (IAASTD www.agassessment.org) shows that large scale agricultural structures, as they were promoted by agronomists in the last decades, will not be able to cope with the pressing key challenges. This study outlines that without small-scale farming we will not succeed to cope successfully with issues as food security, biodiversity and climate change.
Parallel to this IAASTD, the development NGO Misereor and the Heinrich Boll Foundation worked on the "Ecofair Trade Dialogue" report (www.ecofair-trade.org) coming to similar conclusions, but based stronger on the trade aspect.
To give Brussels-based stakeholders the possibility to discuss these two documents, we have invited two of the lead persons, in order to define what might be the consequences for EU Policies as Common Agricultural Policy, Environment, Trade, and Development.
