Cop21 echoes for CaSA Team

Find here all the events the CaSA network team was involved during COP21 :

• November 30 th, 2015 : a "4 per thousand" day before COP21, Bondy

Prof. Tantely Razafimbelo, ensured the lead of the round table on "4P1000 and Its links with Ongoing initiatives” : Mapping of Common goals gold supplement". The CASA members’ network present at the event were :  Tantely Razafimbelo, Yacine  Badiane Ndour, Saidou Sall, Edmond Hien, Adoum Abgassi, Oumarou Balarabe, Hervé Ahouloukpe, Martial Bernoux, Herintsitohaina Razakamanarivo, Hervé Guibert.

A side-event on : « Monitoring, Reporting and Verification » was organised with the Dr. Herintsitohaina Razakamanarivo and Dr. Yacine Badiane Ndour as the leads of the event. The CASA members’ network present at the event were : Tantely Razafimbelo, Herintsitohaina Razakamanarivo, Yacine  Badiane Ndour, Saidou Sall, Edmond Hien, Adoum Abgassi, Oumarou Balarabe, Hervé Ahouloukpe, Martial Bernoux, Hervé Guibert.

• 1^st december 2015 : Side event on « Sustainable land management and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Sub-saharan Africa »,

Dr. Martial Bernoux, Division Climate, Energy and Tenure (NRC), FAO has provided the introductory part of the side event. The Prof. Tantely Razafimbelo made an oral presentation on "Agriculture and Climate Change: What coping strategies? ". The CASA members’ network present at the event were : Tantely Razafimbelo, Yacine  Badiane Ndour, Saidou Sall, Edmond Hien, Adoum Abgassi, Oumarou Balarabe, Hervé Ahouloukpe, Martial Bernoux, Herintsitohaina Razakamanarivo, Hervé Guibert.

To make better known the network, various communication support such as CaSA flyers, CaSA Card were distributed, the CaSA poster was also presented.

• Other events in which members of CASA were present during COP21:

- Date : 1^st december2015, 10h30-13h

Location : Le Bourget, COP21, French Pavillon

Event : Official launch of 4 per thousand initiative « soils for food security »

Speaker:

François HOULLIER (Director of INRA)

Round table and sharing

• Film done by the Foundation Earth and Center for Food Safety
• Franck RISJBERMAN, General Director of CGIAR
• Girish G. SOHANI, President of BAIF (Development Research Foundation)
• Isabel García TEJERINA, Minister of Agriculture, Spanish
• Dr. Ibrahim Assane MAYAKI, President of NEPAD
• Salah LAMOUCHI, farmer and President of APAD Tunisie
• Tabaré AGUERRE, Uruguay Minister

- Date : 1^st December 2015,14h-16h

Location : Le Bourget, COP21, French Pavillon

Event : “Sustainable nutrition and climate change »

Speakers:

- Guyomard (INRA): Food security and climate change

- Bernoux (IRD-FAO): Methodology for food

- Vincent COLOMB, ADEME

- Ducan Williamson WWF: Food policy adviser.

- Sebastien Treyer FAO

Date : 2^nd december 2015, 12h:20-13h:50

Location : EGC, Rio Convention Pavillion

Event : Evergreen Agriculture and Land Restoration

Speakers:

• Monique Barbut (UNCCD Executive Secretary)
• Dennis Garrity (UNCCD Drylands Ambassador)

Panel Discussion: Examining the Implications of these major programs

Moderator: Dennis Garrity, UNCCD Drylands Ambassador

• Martin Bwalya (NEPAD)
• Shantanu Mathur (IFAD)
• Chikakula Miti (COMESA)
• Ravi Prabhu (ICRAF)
• Randall Purcell (World Food Program)
• Lori Pearson (CRS)
• Chekh Mbow (ICRAF)
• Matthew Reddy (WBCSD)

- Date: 5^th December 2015, 12h15 - 13h45 

Location : Palais du Congrès, Global Landscape Forum

Event: Landscape restoration Snapshot – Potential for achieving old and new climate ambitions

Speakers:

• Emmanuel Nyonkuru, Ministry Minister of Water, Environment, Spatial Planning and Urban Development of Burundi
• Bianca Jagger, Founder CEO, IUCN Bonn Challenge Ambassador
• Ian Gray , Senior Environmental Specialist, GEF
• José Vilialdo Diaz, Head, Climate Change Department, National Forestry Institute, Guatemala (INAB Guatemala)
• Gustavo Fonseca, Director of Programs, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• Carlos A. Klink, Secretary for Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Brazil

- Date : 5^th December 2015, 16h-17h30

Location : Le Bourget, Germany Pavilion

Event : Soil matters : And is a key element from CSA

Speakers :

Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary, BMZ, Germany

Michel Mordasini, IFAD

Markus Repnkik, UNCCD

Film : fao.org/soils-2015 : “Our ally against climate change”

Round table panelists :

Hoven indrid  (Head of Directorate General on Global Issues, Germany)

Deborah Bossio, (CIAT, Kenya)

Claire Chenu (FAO special Ambassador for the 2015 YIS) 

Gousmane Moussa, Niger  Gouvernement

Shri Amalorpavanathan, NABARD, Inde