Commonwealth Foundation / Commonwealth Secretariat / GECAFS
briefing on
CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY
Commonwealth Foundation
Marlborough House
Pall Mall, London
Agenda
| 5:00 pm | Welcome |
| Dr. Mark Collins, Director, Commonwealth Foundation | |
| 5:05 pm | Food Security Implications of Climate Change in Commonwealth Developing Countries |
| Dr. Timothy O Williams, Adviser and Head of Enterprise and Agriculture Section, Commonwealth Secretariat | |
| 5:20 pm | Climate Change and Food Security: Background, Concepts and Regional Approaches |
| Professor Diana Liverman, GECAFS Chair; Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford | |
| 5:30pm | Southern Africa |
| John Ingram, GECAFS Executive Officer; Natural Environment Research Council | |
| 5:45 pm | The Indo-Gangetic Plain of South Asia |
| Dr. Pramod Joshi, Director, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP), India | |
| 6:00 pm | The Caribbean |
| Adrian Trotman, Acting Chief of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), Barbados | |
| 6:15 pm | Climate Change, Food Security and Development |
| Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientist, DEFRA | |
| 6:30 pm | Panel discussion |