Dealing with Climate Change: The Need to Include Agriculture and Land Use

May 28, 2009, in Washington DC , IFPRI panel discussion: "Dealing with Climate Change: The Need to Include Agriculture and Land Use"

To meet mitigation and adaptation goals, international climate negotiations must include agriculture. In the lead up to Copenhagen, negotiators meet in Bonn between 1st and 12 June 2009.

IFPRI' s 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment approached leading experts around the world to share their perspectives on the key negotiating outcomes that must be pursued now to effectively put agriculture on the climate change agenda. Panelists discussed the challenges and opportunities for integrating agriculture into the climate change negotiations.

Opening remarks by Joachim von Braun, Director General of IFPRI.


Presentation by Gerald C. Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI.


Presentation by William Hohenstein, Director, Global Change Program Office, USDA.


Presentation by Ross Garnaut, Chair of the IFPRI Board of Trustees & Professor of Economics, the Australian National University.


Comments by Joachim von Braun, Director General of IFPRI


Part 1 of the question and answer session at the IFPRI panel discussion


Part 2 of the question and answer session at the IFPRI panel discussion


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Agriculture and Climate Change: An Agenda for Negotiation in Copenhagen
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