Member of Akilimali Women Association working on the fields. Photo: Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF
Three separate but thematically linked dialogues within the field of agriculture, land use, food systems, biodiversity, tenure and rights will be facilitated with a wide range of speakers. In-between the events networking spaces, lunch and coffee will be provided to the participants.
The day serves both as dialogue opportunities ahead of Stockholm+50 as associated events and as a forum to initiate deepened collaborations to accelerate global progress towards a more just, resilient, and sustainable future. Focus is on the situation for and messages from rights holders and their agency in bridging the implementation gaps, from words to action, for a healthy, just and liveable planet.
Short information about the three dialogues is listed below, where you can also find links to separate event pages with full agendas, bios of speakers and information about the organisers.
The global food crisis – a threat or opportunity for young smallholder farmers and agripreneurs
Time: 11:00 – 12:30, 1 june 2022
How can – and will – agripreneurial rural youth build capacities to support sustainable food systems? This event will address the capacity development needs of rural agripreneurial youth and how to enable them to take on the challenges of feeding a projected 9.7 billion people by 2050 in a sustainable manner. The event looks at the challenges today’s rural agripreneurial youth face in building capacities toward contributing to sustainable food systems, but also the opportunities these challenges can bring.
Insights on the topic will be shared by speakers from AGRA, the Eastern African Farmers’ Federation, Baridi, and SLU.
Speakers
The event is organised by Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative (SIANI), Agriculture for Food Security 2030 Programme (AgriFoSe 2030), and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
From the ground up: channeling finance to smallholder forest and farm producers organizations for full spectrum climate action
Time: 13:15 – 14:45, 1 June 2022
The objective of this event is to increase the visibility of forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) in delivering full spectrum climate action. It will explain what that means, and show how FFPOs can mobilise 1.5 billion smallholder producers to aggregate products from multiple smallholdings that mix biodiverse agriculture, agroforestry and natural forests, a vast collective pool of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. Pursuing market opportunities for diverse product baskets, they frequently also invest in wider goals that are central to sustainability, resilience and equity. Strengthening FFPOs in long term partnership, and channelling more climate finance through them, is a game changer for climate action.
Speakers
The event is organised by We Effect and Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).
Transforming our Relation with Land and Nature from an Intergenerational Perspective - Indigenous Peoples’ role for a healthy and just planet 2072
Time: 15:05 – 16:35, 1 June 2022
This event aims to highlight the role and importance of Indigenous peoples and local communities in safeguarding the world’s forests, ecosystems and biodiversity. Secure tenure and human rights are key but remains a struggle to uphold. A diverse panel will explore how support for indigenous and community land rights and agency can accelerate global transformation towards a more just, resilient, and sustainable future, and what different actors can do to make this happen.
Speakers:
The event is organised by Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), The Tenure Facility, SwedBio, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Focali – SIANI Dialogue Forum.