The global food crisis | How can an Agriculture Breakthrough deliver for Africa?

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WhereBonn Room | World Convention Center Bonn
AICCRA at the UNFCCC SB56

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Monday 6 June

15:00 – 16:30 CEST

Room Bonn, World Convention Center Bonn

Speakers

  • Chair: Dhanush Dinesh, Founder, Clim-Eat
  • Keynote speaker: Gerard Howe, Head of Adaptation, Nature & Resilience Department, FCDO Energy, Climate and Environment Directorate
  • Ishmael Sunga, CEO, The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)
  • Andy Challinor, Professor of Climate Impacts, University of Leeds
  • Jackline Nekesa Makokha, Kenya National Focal Point on Gender and Climate Change to the UNFCCC, Kenya Ministry of Public Service, Gender, Senior Citizens Affairs and Special Programs 
  • Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Global Communications and Knowledge Manager, Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA)

Organising partners 

  • Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
  • Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA)
  • Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)
  • University of Leeds
  • Clim-Eat
  • UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Background

Co-hosted by the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA), Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU), University of Leeds, and Clim-eat, and in collaboration with UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), this side event will introduce the Agriculture Breakthrough, announced at the COP26 World Leaders Summit as a key mechanism to accelerate the innovation and deployment of technologies in agriculture.

The Breakthrough Agenda for agriculture has one ambition: making evidence-based climate-smart agriculture the most attractive and widely adopted path for farmers worldwide by 2030. 

This event will use as case study, the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) a $60 million World Bank regional project to help African countries strengthen the resilience of their agricultural sectors to the threat posed by climate change-, to discuss relevant pathways for massive adoption of climate-smart agriculture worldwide by 2030.

It will bring together action-oriented stakeholders that focus on transforming agricultural innovation for people, nature and climate and outline challenges and opportunities to accelerate action and inspire key stakeholders to implement concrete actions to trigger the transformation needed to build resilient and sustainable food, land and water systems.

Expected outcomes

  • Introduce the Agriculture Breakthrough with an initial set of countries endorsing, and setting out the process for the Global Checkpoint Mechanism.
  • Mobilize the Global Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture, a.k.a ClimateShot as a key mechanism to implement the ambitions of the breakthrough.
  • Generate momentum to advance action on sustainable agriculture innovation from COP26 and in the lead up to COP27.

About the UNFCCC

With 197 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.

The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of all agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)

SBSTA assists the governing bodies through the provision of timely information and advice on scientific and technological matters as they relate to the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.

The 56th session of the subsidiary bodies will take place from 6 to 16 June 2022, at the World Convention Center Bonn, Germany.
Pre-sessional meetings will take place 31 May to 5 June 2022.

A UNFCCC opening press conference for this year’s Bonn Climate Conference is scheduled to take place at 13:15 on 6 June, after the opening plenary has concluded. The social media hashtag for the meeting is #BonnClimateConference.

Source: UNFCCC