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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
   

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