Background

The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) is hosting its 185th Public Meeting, A Consultative Workshop on Systemic Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, to announce upcoming BIFAD work in the areas of climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural, nutrition, and food systems and to seek public input into priorities and evidence gathering. 

The meeting will publicly introduce the BIFAD Subcommittee on Systemic Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, recently established by BIFAD and USAID to lead transdisciplinary evidence gathering to support USAID’s role in accelerating systems change and transformative climate change adaptation and mitigation approaches in agriculture, food systems and nutrition, and in targeting climate finance to benefit smallholder farmers. The objectives, questions, and proposed methodology of a planned BIFAD-commissioned climate change study, to be guided by the subcommittee, will be shared and discussed.

Speakers

• Gillian Caldwell, Chief Climate Officer, USAID; and Deputy Assistant Administrator  
• Ana María Loboguerrero, AICCRA Director and Research Director for the Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (a CGIAR center) 
• Olaf Westermann, Senior Technical Advisor in Climate Change, Catholic Relief Services 
• Sarah Boettiger, Independent Advisor, Corporate Sustainability, Strategic Philanthropy, Climate Change, Land Use Change, and Food Systems