July 28th, 2016

Proceedings GACSA Annual Forum

Published by GACSA,

During the GACSA Annual Forum, the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) community came together for 4 days under the theme CSA in Action. Governments, farmers, businesses, research organizations, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and academia from various corners of the globe, came to Rome from 14-17 June with a common purpose; how to accelerate action on the three pillars of CSA (productivity, adaptation and mitigation). A series of panel discussions demonstrated effective multi-stakeholder partnerships for CSA from different perspectives. All the presentations can be found here and video recordings can be found here. Furthermore, several innovation pitches were presented that highlighted innovative CSA practices. These included: 1). Urea deep placement (in Bangladesh); 2). CSA prioritization framework (in Central America); and 3). Sustainable Palm Oil (Indonesia).

Curated from fao.org