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Event
7 June 2012

Global Donor Platform Dialogue

Food security and climate change

You are kindly invited to a Platform Dialogue with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development in Stockholm on June 7. The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD or the Platform) is a network of all the major bilateral and multilateral donors and international financing institutions that share a common vision of the role that ARD (Agriculture and Rural Development) plays in reducing poverty. They are committed to achieving increased and more effective aid for agriculture and rural development. www.donorplatform.org. Sida is member of the GDPRD board and this Dialogue is a co-arrangement between the GDPRD, Sida and SIANI.

This is an unique opportunity to get to know the Platform. On June 7th the  Platform Dialogue Forum will first introduce the Platform’s work and then focus thematically on Food Security and Climate Change.  Melinda Fones-Sundell and Matthew Fielding will be moderating the session.  Please note, you must RSVP before the 1st June!

Welcome!

Times

From 7 June 2012 at 11:00 to 7 June 2012 at 14:30

Venue

Sida HQ, Valhallavägen 199

Resources

Agenda

SPEAKERS

  • Marion Guillou  CCAFS Commissioner, President of the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Agronomique (INRA) – via videolink
  • Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt  Lund University / SIANI
  • Elwyn Grainger-Jones  Executive Coordinator, Global Environment and Climate Change, IFAD – via videolink
  • David Howlett  Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture, DFID – via videolink

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

  • Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change: the Critical Role of Global Donors Marion Guillou – via videolink