About the event

The AICCRA team will participate in four sessions at the Food Systems Pavilion for AGRICULTURE day at COP27.

Climate Adaptation Services - Demo Stage

12:00-12:45 PM

In this demo stage, three speakers will give their best Dragon’s Den pitches, showcasing their digital solutions to help climate change adaptation. These innovations could pave the way to a climate resilient future.

Dr Inga Jacobs-Mata, AICCRA's country representative, will participate in this session.

Scaling Climate Resilient Agriculture and National Action Plans

13:00-13:45 PM

Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are an important mechanism through which climate resilient agriculture can be scaled by aligning policies, capacities and investments. This session will examine how leading countries are using NDCs and National Adaptation Plans to scale climate smart agriculture practices, and identify common challenges that need to be resolved to ensure that proven climate smart agriculture approaches are scaled ensuring food and livelihood security in the face of increasingly severe climate shocks and stresses.

AICCRA's Dr. Caroline Mwongera (CSA Technologies Thematic Leader) will participate in the discussion.

The contribution of dairy to resilient food systems in East Africa

16:20-17:15 PM

How can the dairy sector contribute to a resilient food system in East Africa?

This question is faced by actors in the East African dairy sector, who intend to contribute to a combination of system outcomes: food and nutrition security, rural economic development, and climate adaptation. These outcomes have a higher priority in East Africa than issues like climate mitigation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, prominent in OECD countries.

Perspectives of actors are coloured by the context in which they operate. For example, the appreciation of dairy proteins is high in contexts of qualitative malnutrition. Different perspectives lead to different trade-offs between people, planet and profit objectives and eventually to different issues and opportunities.

NEADAP is developing a position paper on the role of dairy in food systems. The paper will be based on stakeholder discussions in six East African countries. It presents facts relevant to resilient dairy development. Its recommendations on the role of dairy in food systems are based on prominent issues raised, such as access to land, water, and capital, food security and safety, and livelihood opportunities.

In this session, a draft of the paper is introduced by Wageningen UR and discussed by a panel of experts.

Zambian farmer, Esther Zulu - who is part of AICCRA's team at COP27 will participate in the panel for this event.

Breaking Down Barriers for an Agriculture Breakthrough

18:30-19:15PM

In November 2021, during COP26 in Glasgow under the United Kingdom Presidency, world leaders launched the Breakthrough Agenda. The Breakthrough Agenda commits countries to work together to make clean technologies and sustainable solutions the most affordable, accessible, and attractive option in high-emitting sectors globally before 2030. One of the priority sectors of the Breakthrough Agenda is agriculture, focusing on “making climate-resilient, sustainable agriculture, the most attractive and widely adopted option for farmers everywhere by 2030”.

AICCRA Director, Ana Maria Loboguerrero, will speak on the panel for this event.

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP27 (Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC), will be the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference, to be held from 6 to 18 November 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.