Food security and mitigation: options for capturing synergies

Opportunities and challenges for adaptation
The joint discussion paper ‘Agricultural development under a changing climate’ indentifies and summarizes potential climate change impacts on agriculture, examines the causes of vulnerability, provides information on where investments are needed, and describes the relevance of current efforts to achieve more sustainable agriculture to that of managing climate risks for adaptation. 

Agriculture day
A group of more than 350 policymakers, farmers and scientists meeting in Copenhagen urged on negotiators at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to recognise agriculture’s vital role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. More about objectives and outcomes can be found on the website of the event.

Adaptation conference
The reports and presentations of the '3rd Conference on adaptation to climate change in developing countries' are now availabe on the HIER website.

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New future for children in dry regions

An increasing part of the poverty in South-Africa is the result of dryness through climate change, especially in rural areas. This dryness makes harvests fail. The Goedgedacht Program, one of the projects of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, cares for the children of poor farmer workers and helps farmers to break through the cycle of poverty. 

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Farmers fighting desertification

Sustainable land use has a lot to offer. Not only does it help farmers with their problems of desertification and soil erosion, it also makes a difference as climate change is concerned: decrease in GHG’s, increase of soil fertility, carbon storage and water retention capacity.

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Sustainable soil management appropriate tool to adapt to climate change

Climate change causes heavy rains and droughts. Farmers in many parts of the world need to adapt to changing weather conditions: higher resilience to droughts and heavy rains is required. Soil fertility improvement can be achieved through sustainable soil management. One of the key parameters for sustainable soil management is organic matter. The organic matter content in the soil is of high importance to improve the buffering capacity of soils for water and nutrients.

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• International Workshop Advances in Flood Forecasting and the Implications for Risk Management
  25-05-2010 t/m 26-05-2010, Alkmaar, the Netherlands
  Click here for more info. 
  
   
• 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change
  28-05-2010 t/m 30-05-2010, Bonn, Germany
  More info on www.iclei.org
  
   
• Climate Adaptation Futures Conference
  29-06-2010 t/m 01-07-2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
  More information can be found here.
  
   
• The International Conference ‘Deltas in Times of Climate Change’
  September 29 – October 1, 2010, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  See www.climatedeltaconference.org for more info.

Partners of the Millennium Agreement  "Controlling Climate Risks"

The Netherlands Red Cross, Simavi, Cordaid, BothEnds, AMREF Flying Doctors, Avalon Foundation, Wetlands International, WWF the Netherlands, University for Peace, CARE The Netherlands, ICCO, Save the Children, SNV, Oxfam Novib, ITC, WUR, KNMI, ETC, IVM VU Amsterdam, TSD UT Twente, Eureko, Cardano, FMO, NWP, Commision MER, CPWC, Climate Partners, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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