12 Dec

online

Scaling up agroforestry – policy brief launch

Are you a development practitioner, policymaker or researcher engaging in sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, rural livelihoods or perhaps food security? Would you like to learn about how agroforestry as a method could be scaled up?

Welcome to the launch of a new policy brief by Agroforestry Network.

Place: Online on Teams. Register here

Facts

Time: 2022-12-12 14:00 - 15:00
City: online
Organiser: Agroforestry Network – a platform for international agroforestry practise, based in Sweden
Additional info:

Event page (Agroforestry Network)

For questions about the event, please contact Åsa Ljusenius asa.ljusenius@viskogen.se


Programme

Agenda:

14.00 opening remarks 

14.05 presentation of the policy brief 

14.15 panel discussion about the brief

14.45 questions from the audience 

15.00 end of event 

Panel:

  • Elaine Springgay, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, FAO
  • Judit Csikvári, European Agroforestry Federation, EURAF
  • Elisabeth Simelton, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida
  • Emilie Molin, Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation
  • Sara Furenhed, Swedish Board of Agriculture
  • Linnéa Pasquier, main author of the policy brief, Agroforestry Sweden

Moderator: Charlotta Szczepanowski, Vi Agroforestry

The policy brief in short:

Agroforestry can provide solutions for increasingly urgent challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and other global issues, as well as improve ecosystem services, local economies and rural livelihoods. The brief focuses on opportunities, barriers and actions for spreading agroforestry systems more widely. In addition, the brief provides recommended actions to support the upscaling of agroforestry. The policy brief Scaling up agroforestry will be published here on December 12th.

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