Theme 3: Energy production, CO2 sink and Climate change
Within a multifunctional approach, farming is a provider of public goods, of energy as well as a climate change mitigator. What technologies and governance systems allow farms to play their wider role in society? What is the added value or the competitive advantage of farms compared to other service providers?
WS 3.1: Climate change: Agriculture, food security and human health
Convenors: Samsul Huda, Mel Taylor and Jo Luck
This workshop session aims to address the impact of climate variability and climate change on food and health security through improved agricultural production, understanding plant and animal biosecurity issues, and promoting sustainable farming systems approach. We will address future challenges and suggests ways to maximise opportunities. Fostering and strengthening linkages across relevant disciplines and engaging community could facilitate such cross-cutting collaborative process.
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WS 3.2: Addressing climate change in the food chain: How can science make an actual change in practice?
Convenors: Emiel Elferink and Gijs Kuneman
Climate change continues while actors like farmers, industry and consumers search for ways to reduce emissions – or decide not to, because they do not know how. The current challenge for science is to reach these actors and policy makers, handing them both facts and solutions. This challenge is the subject of this workshop. We invite contributions addressing the challenge to translate scientific knowledge into practical instruments, data-sets and methods of knowledge dissemination.
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WS 3.3: Sustainable biofuel production in developing countries: "Green" energy as the key for development?
Convenors: Harry Hoffmann and Götz Uckert
The idea to produce energy from organic materials such as energy plants, animal fats or municipal waste has become increasingly attractive. Particularly in developing countries, they can offer job opportunities, decentralized electricity production, new income generation for farmers and mitigation of greenhouse gases. However, biofuel production can also cause major disturbances in the local socio-economic and ecological systems. The workshop will cover the different aspects of biofuel production, both for local consumption and for export.
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WS 3.4: Promoting the discovery of alternative futures by reframing climate change communication
Convenors: Nadarajah Sriskandarajah and Tarla Rai Peterson
While recognizing that climate change is a complex biophysical process, this session will focus on climate change as a political issue. We will explore how framing the climate change discussion with a systemic perspective may contribute to a more sustainable set of agricultural policies that shape farming’s contributions to climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and cultural heritage as allied, rather than antagonistic, goals.
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