Days2015Detailed Agenda

10-12 November , FAO HQ, Rome

Pre-Events: Monday 9 November

MORNING

09.00 – 10.00 9.30-10.30

Side meetings (FAO): (Canada Room)

Meeting of the FAO Land Tenure Team

(Organizer: Tea Dabrundashvili)

Side Meeting (FAO) (Queen Juliana Room)

Meeting on the “Reference Centers for Irrigation Modernization” (FAO)

(Organizer: Robina Wahaj)

09.30-10.30 (Cuba Room) Project meeting (Part 1) More Effective and Sustainable Investments in Water for Poverty Reduction GCP/INT/167/IWM - (Organizer: Patricia Mejias Moreno)

10.30-12.30 Sheikh Zayed Center

FAO Town Hall meeting: Water, land and the 2030 Development Agenda: gearing up for the challenge

12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH & Side Meetings

(Queen Juliana Room) Project meeting (Part 2) More Effective and Sustainable Investments in Water for Poverty Reduction GCP/INT/167/IWM - (Organizer: Patricia Mejias Moreno)

(Flag Hall & Iran Lobby)

Setting of the Market Place

(Set your publications, posters, multimedia)

(Iran Room) Short documentaries on land and water:

Videos of Globally Important Agriculture Systems in (China); & (Tunisia)

The World Water assessment program : The Water Rooms

AFTERNOON

14.00-17.30

(Iraq Room) FAO Internal meeting /

Technical Networks on land and water

(Gathering and Team Building )

Pre-events –Information and training

(for participants not part of FAO technical networks on land and water)

14.30-17.30 With coffee/tea break (15.30-16.00)

With group discussion on "The FAO Water Platform : towards a common vision" (Olcay Unver, Marlos de Souza) "SDGs and Indicators" (Molina Javier, Sally Bunning)

(Pakistan Room) T1-Facilitating multistakeholder processes for Land and Water projects in the context of capacity development. Trainers: Frédérique Matras, Cecilia De Rosa, FAO/OPPC Most land & Water projects need to involve multiple stakeholders. Come to learn how to do it and optimize your chance of success.

(Canada Room) T2-Effective communication in land and water projects Trainer: Marzia Pafumi and Simone Sala, FAO/OPPC Communication plays a key role for the successful implementation of development programmes. You will identify, identify communication functions that are strategic for your work, and learn about initiatives where communication helped improving land and water management.

(Queen Juliana Room) T3-Designing learning & documentation processes Trainer: Cleona Wallace, FAO/OPPC Learning and Documentation should be thought about from the early design phase of your project. Learn how to use it to add flexibility in your project and scale up.

Day 1: Tuesday 10 November

Theme: Governance

MORNING DAY 1

08.30 – 9.00

REGISTRATION and pre-booking of sessions and open space events

09.00 – 09.30 Red room (A121int) Eng/Fr Webcast

(1) Land and water days opening: "Reaching effective and lasting impacts for land and water actions"

Chair: Moujahed Achouri

Speakers:

Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director General, FAO

Ides de Willebois, Director West and Central Africa, IFAD

Zlatan Milisic, Deputy Director, Policy and Programme Division, WFP

09.30 – 10.00 Red room (A121int) Eng/Fr Webcast

(2) Plenary Session I: “Setting the scene: Land and Water in the global governance context”

Chair: Moujahed Achouri

Speakers:

Michael Clark, Senior Coordinator (Policy and Governance)

Martin Frick, Director, Climate, Energy & Tenure Division

Sven Walter, Head of the Global Mechanism of UNCCD Liaison Office in FAO

10.00 – 10.30 (Library Lobby)

COFFEE/TEA BREAK – Ground Floor, Building A, Library Lobby

10.30 – 12.00 Red Room (A121int) Eng/Fr Webcast

(3) Plenary Session II: “Linking land and water governance across scales and disciplines“ The session will discuss governance issues associated with land and water management from local to national level and beyond. It will review existing instruments for improving governance of tenure and explore linkages between land and water governance.

Facilitator: Domitille Vallée Rapporteur: Jean-Marc Faurès Speakers:

Klaus Urban, Policy and Governance Unit, FAO

Madhav Belbase, DG, Department of Irrigation, Nepal

Steven Jonkheere, IFAD

Paul Munro Faure, FAO/NRC

Rebecca Metzner, FAO/FIP

12.00 – 14.00 12.00 – 13.00

LUNCH & Open space (OS) events in parallel *2 Book this time slot for your Open space event (booking board available in the Flag Hall)

Iraq /A &B 2d floor Cuba Canada Pakistan / A217 Iran Room

*2 *2 *2 *2 D1-DOCUMENTARY 1 (water) “Store a drop” (Madhya Pradesh, india)

ByMarco Leopardi ( Italia, 2012) 13.00 – 14.00 13.30-14.00

(Iraq) OS-11 -Learn- WFP's approach to assets building in degraded, shock-prone and food insecure contexts: country examples Organisers: Volli Carucci, Johanna Gardensten, Rafaella Policastro

*2 (Canada) OS-1.2-Near East: Land degradation, desertification and drought management for resilient ecosystems” (Daniel Dale) tbc

(Pakistan) OS-1.3- Learn-How to use farmer and pastoral field schools for better local ownership Organisers: Sally Bunning& Oliver Mundy

(flag Hall) *2

(Iran Lobby) *2

Iran Room *2

*2 (Iran Lobby) OS-1.4-Join the Tea Ceremony (China) organized by the Team of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (FAO)

Iran Room OS-1.5- Short documentaries on land and water

1: (5-6’each)

The Farmers’ soil practices video contest & Dimitra video

AFTERNOON DAY 1 14.00 – 15.30

Share and Learn @ The Market Place (with coffee/tea)

(You can go from one to another session. A detailed program will be available with list of resources)

Flag Hall (B018) (facilitated by Frédérique Matras)

(4a) Presentation & discussion of tools, methods, guidelines on (Part 1): - Disaster risk / climate change / resilience - Irrigation and drainage - Land and water in urban & region food systems - Soil health and fertility

Iran Lobby (facilitated by Sophie Treinen and Domitille Vallée)

(4b) Presentation & discussion of tools, methods, guidelines on (part 2): - Coping with water scarcity - Managing land resources sustainably - Land and water governance and cooperation - Financing land and water management - Supporting adaptation and awareness

Iran Room (Facilitated by John Latham)

(4c) Presentation & discussion of tools, methods, guidelines on (part 3): - Information and decision support for land and water management

1Short documentaries on land and water will include :

The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest –First Round of Video: 1) Una amiga de la naturaleza (Nicaragua) ; 2) Les micro-fermes urbaines (La Réunion) ; 3) Rehabilitación de suelos degradados mediante curvas de nivel y reforestación con especies nativas (Chile); 4) Local micro-organisms (Indonesia). Dimitra program: Dimitra video on access to water and land

15.30 – 17.30

Red room or Canada Room (A367) (tbc) Iran Room (B116) Eng/Fr

Pakistan Room (A127) Iraq Room (A/B building, 2nd

floor)

Thematic parallel sessions

(5) Application of the Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security (VGGT) Coordinator: Tea Dabrundashvili Facilitator: Domitille Vallée Rapporteur: Iwona Piechowiak

Tenure rights to land and other natural resources (including fisheries, forests, water, etc.) are fundamental to food and shelter; they are elements of social, cultural and religious practices; and they underpin economic growth. And so, in addition to food security, the VGGT are also intended to contribute to improvements in poverty eradication, sustainable livelihoods, social stability, housing security, rural development, environmental protection, and sustainable social and economic development. The session aims at increasing the ability of FAO/IFAD/WFP officers to understand and administer tenure rights in accordance with the principles and practices contained in the VGGT.

Speakers:

;

Andrew Hilton;

Vladimir Evtimov;

Odame Larbi;

Andrew Nadeau ;

Morten Hartvigsen;

Aurelie Bres & Francesca Carpano

(6) Linking land and water governance Coordinators: Audrey Nepveu de Villemarceau, Harold Liversage, Rikke Grand Olivera, Marie-Lara Hubert Chartier, Mawira Chitima Facilitator : Audrey Nepveu de Villemarceau Rapporteur : Marie-Lara Hubert Chartier

Secure access to both land and water is central to reduce poverty and hunger. The growing competition for land and water can only be addressed comprehensively if the links between secure access to and use of both resources are recognized, and the related governance issues are understood. Success depends on local solutions to the challenges of poverty and the environment.

Speakers:

Brahim Taha Dahab, PROHYPA

Geraldine Choquel, Coordinator GRDR, Migration-Citoyenneté-Développement

Ray Gama, Environment and M&E Manager, LUSIP

Jan Cherlet, Land and Water Governance specialist, International Land Coalition

(7) Groundwater governance – A global framework for action Coordinators: Mohamed Bazza and Lucie Pluschke Facilitator: Frédéric Dévé Rapporteur: Marta Rica Izquierdo This session will discuss a Global Framework for Action to improve groundwater governance and the way its implementation is being piloted in two countries. The framework has been developed over the past four years within the framework of a GEF-financed project led by FAO and implemented jointly with UNESCO (IHP), the International Association of Hydrogeologist (IAH), the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and in collaboration with other key actors of the sector. The elaboration involved consultations with and inputs from over 700 persons from over 100 countries worldwide. Speakers

Mohamed Bazza

Lucie Pluschke

Imed El Missaoui

Marta Rica Izquierdo

(8) Land and water assessments for identifying vulnerabilities and sustaining rural livelihoods Coordinators: John Latham, Livia Peiser Facilitator: Lisen Runsten Rapporteur: Jippe Hoogeveen

Powerful land and water assessment tools and data exist and are continuously being developed to assist decision makers in identifying vulnerabilities to shocks and stress and monitoring changes of conditions over time in a cost-effective ways. Yet questions remain with regard to their ability to influence the decision-making process and with their adoption in different contexts of data and resources availability. Communicating uncertainty (in climate predictions, markets, human behaviours…) becomes increasingly relevant and requires innovative approaches. This session will provide an opportunity to learn about some key initiatives in this area and to share lessons learnt around key questions.

Speakers

Craig Hutton, University of Southampton

Hussein Gadain, SWALIM, FAOSO

Prof. Riccardo Valentini, Univ of Tuscia, CLIMAFrICA-FP7

Livia Peiser, FAO/NRL

Puspa Raj Khanal, FAORAP

Guenther Fischer, IIASA

17.30 – 20.00 Welcoming Cocktail, FAO Cafeteria, B-building, 8th

floor

Day 2: Wednesday 11 November

Theme: Integrated land and water management approaches

MORNING DAY 2

08.30 –9.00 (9) Highlights from previous day and introduction to parallel sessions

09.00 – 10.00 Sheikh Zayed Eng/Fr Webcast

(10) Plenary session III: “Down to earth: finding our way through a mosaic of integrative approaches” Coordinators: Jean-Marc Faurès, Rebecka Ramstedt Facilitator: Benjamin Kiersch Rapporteur: Ines Beernaerts

Managing agriculture, forestry and fisheries at a landscape scale is key to sustainability and to the livelihood of rural populations. Many teams at FAO, WFP and IFAD have developed approaches that seek to provide tools and concepts for managing landscapes in a more sustainable manner. They usually imply multi-scale, multi-sector and multi-stakeholder processes. The aim of this session is to quickly review some of the approaches developed by these teams, discuss their strengths and complementarities, and debate how they contribute. FAO’s common vision for Sustainable Food & Agriculture (SFA) is the overall framework for its Strategic Objective 2, which aims at making agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and more sustainable. The SFA framework, based on five key principles is offered as starting point to support the discussion.

Speaker & panelists:

A common vision for sustainable food & agriculture (Jean-Marc Faurès, FAO)

SLM at catchment level (Sally Bunning, FAO-NRL)

Watershed management (Thomas Hofer, FAO-FOM)

Community-based participatory watershed development (Volli Carucci, WFP)

Forests and landscape restoration (Doug McGuire, FAO-FOM)

Ecosystem approach to fisheries and aquaculture ( Jose Aguilar Manjarrez, FAO-FIRA)

Territorial development (Paolo Groppo, FAO-NRL)

Agroecology (Caterina Batello FAO-AGPM)

Source to sea (David Lymer, FAO-FIRF)

Ecosystem Services and biodiversity portal (Tomas Hofer, FAO-FOM)

10.00 – 10.30 (Library Lobby)

COFFEE/TEA BREAK – Ground Floor, Building A, Library Lobby

10.30 – 12.30

Iraq Room (A/B building, 2

nd floor)

Iran Room (B116)

Sheik Zayed Center (Atrium)

Thematic parallel sessions

(11) Nexus ideas: what can be done to address the trade-offs and synergies between water, energy and food? Coordinators: Patricia Mejias Moreno and Lucie Pluschke Facilitator: Domitille Vallée Rapporteurs: Thierry Facon & Lucie Pluschke

The concept of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus has been around for a number of years – mostly in academic and policy debates. This session will look at different technical, managerial and policy approaches that address the trade-offs and synergies between water, energy and food systems. It seeks to inspire new ideas on how to work on such cross-cutting issues in terms of policy as well as practical field work.

Speakers@ Roundtables:

Octavio Montufar Avilez (FIRCO): “Solar irrigation in Mexico”

Toufic Elasmar (FAO-AGPM): “Solar tractor”

Austin Stankus (FAO-FIRA): “Hydroponics”

Arturo Gianvenuti (FAO-FOM): “Safe access to fuel and energy”

Stefania Bracco: “EU biofuels sustainability criteria & land acquisitions in Africa”

Manas Puri (FAO-NRC): “Value chains, energy and water”

(12) Land use planning for sustainable agriculture and city region food systems Coordinator: Feras Ziadat Facilitator: Guido Santini Rapporteur: Lisen Runsten

This session aims to discuss what are today pressing drivers for land use is planning in both urban and rural contexts. Interventions will focus on the biophysical, economic, social, and environmental and governance aspects that need to be taken into account in land use planning for sustainable agriculture and city region food systems. The discussion will draw on specific approaches, practices, case studies and field projects to identify challenges faced by current land use planning patterns and possible ways to overcome them. The overall objective is to stimulate a dialogue on land use planning issues related to the role of various sectors influencing and being influenced by the planning process.

Speakers followed by Round Table discussion:

Feras Ziadat and Lisen Runsten

Yota Nicolarea and Guido Santini

Wilfried Baudoin

Paolo Groppo

(13) Sustainable agriculture for ecosystem services: what’s in it for farmers and how to support the transition? Coordinator: Bernardete Neves Facilitator: Benjamin Kiersch Rapporteur: Lucy Garrett & Bernardete Neves

Incentives for Ecosystem Services (IES) are packages of measures to support farmers in the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices that will benefit the environment, and protect long-term food security. Farmers face barriers that limit their ability to invest the time and capital required to adopt sustainable practices that provide more ecosystem services. Incentives from public policy and private investment can be used to support farmers overcome these barriers to deliver more ecosystem services (ES) and protect them through better management of crops, livestock, forests and fisheries. An IES package can create an umbrella initiative to support farmers’ transition to more sustainable agricultural production.

Speakers:

Bernardete Neves, FAO

Maria Teresa Palacio Lozano, Wald- und Klimaschutz/ REDD+/GIZ - Colombia

Fredrick Kihara The Nature Conservancy, Kenya

Benjamin Kiersch, FAO RLC

12.30 – 14.30

LUNCH & Open space (OS) events in parallel *2 : Book this time slot for your event (booking board available in the Flag Hall)

Queen Juliana Sheikh Sayed Cuba Room Canada Room Pakistan Room

Iran Room

12.30 – 13.30

*2 *2 *2 *2

D2-DOCUMENTARY Soils Film Festival

“Timbaktu”

(Rintu Thomas and Sushmita Ghosh, India, 2012)

13.30 – 14.30

OS-2.1 Sahel Dialogue: Synergies and common products (Patricia Mejias Moreno)

OS-2.2 Near East/ water: The regional Water Scarcity Initiative in the Near East and North Africa (Fawzi Karajeh and Faycel Chenini)

OS-2.3 Group work/ Land use planning session (Follow up of Session (Feras Ziadat)

OS-2.4 Latin America: FAO RLC guidelines with IES and the Principles for Sustainable Food and Agriculture (SFA) (B. Neves, B. Kiersch)

Central Asia Dialogue (Ines Beernaerts)

(Flag Hall) *2

(Iran Lobby) *2

*2

14.00-14.30 *2 (Iran Lobby) OS-2.5 Join the Tea Ceremony (China) with a Presentation of GIAHS (by Endo, Yoshihide)

(Iran Room)

OS-2.6 Short documentaries on Land and Water: (5’each) The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest

2 & Dimitra

AFTERNOON DAY 2 14.30 – 16.00

Iraq Room 1 (A/B building, 2nd

f)

(14) Project Think shop 1 (*):

Iraq Room 2 (A/B building, 2nd

floor)

(15) Project Think shop 2 (*):

Iran Room (B 116)

(16) Project Think shop 3: A toolbox for

Sheik Sayed Center (Atrium) ENG/FR

2Short documentaries on Land and Water will include :

The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest –Second Round of Video: 5) Eficientes aliados del agricultor (Cuba); 6) Agroforestia dinamica y carbono activado (Bolivia); 7)Vetiver strong grass for better soils (Kenya); 8)Practice for soil improvement in Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka). Dimitra program: Dimitra video on Access to Water and Land

Parallel Thematic sessions (*): The Think Shop 1 &2 limited in number of participants as only up to 6 people can join a project think shop table. Pre-Booking proposed at registration. First come/first served.

Designing projects for lasting impacts (Limited space: upon prior registration) Facilitator: D.Vallée Rapporteur: Project initiators

This is a brainstorming with project initiators on “ingredients to ensure lasting impacts” for project in design. The work will involve small teams around individual projects and resources persons bring their expert views on cross-cutting issues (i.e sustainability, M&E, gender mainstreaming, capacity development, feasibility, Investments etc).

List of projects and projects to be discussed:

Source to sea- in Mexico/Guatemala(Amani Alfarra)

Water Quality -Peru (Sara MarjaniZadeh, Benjamin Kiersch)

Restoring Degraded Lands (Ronald Vargas)

From Ridge to Reef: (Halwart Mathias, Austin Stankus)

Blue growth for resilient fisheries (Lahsen Ababouch)

Climate smart agriculture in Africa (Benjamin Graub tbc)

Documenting project experiences Facilitator: Sophie Treinen Rapporter: Frédérique Matras People often think of documenting their experience at the end of a project instead of incorporating the experience capitalization as from the inception. As a result lessons are not systematically learned, errors are not corrected, promising good practice not identified, no financial and human resources are available for documenting, scaling up among others. This think shop will present different ways of documenting according to the audience and ways of adapting to changes and be prepared for a scaling up phase. This will be an interactive sessions involving projects managers with interesting experience to share. Some of the projects experiences to be share:

Bengladesh (Arefeen S. SYED)

Turkey (Aysegul Akin)

Burundi (Salvator Ndabirorere)

Kenya (Charles SONGOK)

Somalia (Hussein Gadain)

Swaziland (ray Gama)

Afganistan (Puspa Raj Kanal, tbc)

Colombia (Maria Teresa Lozano)

successful Land and water projects Coordinator: D.Vallée & Livia Peiser Facilitator: Lisen Runsten Rapporteur: Rebecka Ramstedt & Giulia

Riedo

The objective of the Think shop is to have a closer look at what can help improve projects at initial and implementation stages. It will be organized as a round of short presentations followed by questions and answers in smaller groups. Specific tools will be presented and their application in different situations will be discussed. Tools will include: livelihood mapping, , stakeholder analysis, gender analysis, participatory M&E, Farmer or livestock field schools use, etc. FAO’s recently approved Environmental and social impact assessment will also be presented.

The following Tools will be introduced and discussed (bus stop setting):

SHARP (Suzanne Phillips.)

Environmental and Social safeguards (Mark Davis)

IES Tool Box (Lucy Garrett)

Ex-Act (Louis Bockel)

Livelihood Mapping (Livia Peiser)

M&E e-Learning (C.Petracchi tbc)

DIMITRA Clubs/ Participatory communication approach (Mauro Bottaro)

Good Practice Template (Giulia Riedo)

(17) Addressing the land and migration nexus: land and water actions to reduce environmental migration and promote job creation Coordinators: Monica Lomena-Gelis, GM-UNCCD and Elisenda Estruch, FAO ESP Facilitator: Stefan Schlingloff Rapporteur: Scott Ronchini (tbc) If not timely and adequately addressed, mass migration can contribute to the loss of vital workforce in rural areas, to worsening the pressure on natural resources in places of destination and intensify tensions or trigger conflicts. From a brief summary of the status of the main debates and initiatives to tackle environmental migration led by experts, two initiatives dealing with migration and agriculture and land degradation will be presented by FAO and by the GM of the UNCCD and the IOM to kick off the discussion. Speakers

Sven Walter, GM-UNCCD

Dominic Kniveton (video) University of Sussex)

Elisenda Estruch, FAO/ESD

Monica Lomeña-Gelis, GM-UNCCD

15.30-16.30 (Iran Lobby & Iraq Lobby)

COFFEE TEA SERVICE in 2 different locations (Iran lobby: 1

st Floor B & Iraq Lobby: 2

nd Floor B)

16.30 – 17.30 Sheik Zayed Center (Atrium) ENG/FR Webcast

(18) Plenary Session IV: “A quick round of funding sources for land and water projects”

Coordinator & Rapporteur: Rosalud de la Rosa

Facilitator: Olcay Unver The session will give an opportunity to resource partners and colleagues involved in resources mobilization to inform about funding opportunities and programme priorities in relation with land and water management.

Panelists:

Alexander Jones, Chief, Donor Relations and Resource Mobilization Team, FAO

Jeffrey Griffin, Global Environment Facility Programme Manager, FAO

Conrad George, Senior Expert, Green Climate Fund, FAO

Rikke Olivera, Senior Technical Specialist, IFAD

Francois Pythoud, ‎Ambassador, Permanent Representation of Switzerland to FAO, IFAD and WFP

Job Kleijn, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands

Day 3: Thursday12 November

Theme: Climate change, risks and resilience

MORNING DAY 3

08.30 – 09.00

(19) Highlights from previous day and introduction to parallel sessions

09.00 – 10.00 Sheikh Zayed Eng/Fr Webcast

(20) Plenary Session V: “Fostering adaptive natural resources management to cope with risks and climate change”

Coordinator: Domitille Vallée, Rebecka Ramstedt Facilitator: Meshack Malo Rapporteur: Astrid Agostini

This session will introduce the concept of climate smart agriculture and discuss how organizations and countries cope with the risks and uncertainties related to climate change.

Speakers:

Leslie Lipper, FAO

Ramasamy Selvaraju, FAO

Valeria Poggi, Programme Officer, FAO Bangladesh

Octavio Alfonso Montufar Aviles, FIRCO Mexico

Caroline Muchai, Programme Officer, WFP Somalia

10.00 10.30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK – Ground Floor, Building A, Library Lobby

Library Lobby

10.30 – 12.30

Parallel thematic sessions

Iraq Room(A/B building, 2nd

floor)

(21) Improving Water productivity: should we care? Coordinator/facilitator: Robina Wahaj & Jippe Hoogeveen Rapporteur: Livia Peiser

Water productivity (WP) is increasingly being flagged as an important issue in relation to global and regional food security. A consequence is that attention formerly given to irrigation efficiency is being transferred to water productivity. Increasing the WP of irrigated and rain fed agriculture is thereby seen as a critical element in increasing agricultural production without major increases in fresh water diversion to agriculture particularly in regions facing increasing water scarcity. The objective of this session is to discuss different concepts of water productivity at different scales and options to assess, monitor and improve water productivity.

Contributors@Roundtables:

Puspa Khannal;

Giovanni Munoz;

Chen Zhijun;

Benjamin Kiersch;

Thierry Facon;

Patricia Mejias;

Fawzi Karajeh;

Vincent Gitz;

Sheikh Zayed Center (Atrium)

(22) Sustainable soil management beyond the International Year of Soils 2015 Coordinator: Lucrezia Caon Facilitator: Olcay Unver Rapporteur: Alexey Sorokin

This session aims to inform and brainstorm around the achievements and impact of The International Year of Soils (IYS) and around the activities of the GSP, with particular focus on post-2015. We will discuss possibilities and challenges to better target the implementation process. This includes links to existing regional, national or cross-national soil-related activities. The session participants are specifically requested to express their ideas, needs and opinions about how to promote sustainable soil management and how this relates to known ongoing and planned activities. Additionally, cooperation opportunities between the GSP and other institutions/organizations will be explored in relation to the need of bringing forward the concept of “healthy soils for a healthy life” after the IYS.

Speakers:

Lucrezia Caon

Aysegul Akin

Ronald Vargas

Rainer Baritz

Hakki Emrah Erdoğan

Iran Room (B116)

(23) Building resilience for food and nutrition security through land and water management Coordinator: Volli Carucci Facilitator: tbc Rapporteurs: Raffaella Policastro, Johanna Gårdesten

The session will describe the nexus between land degradation-food and nutrition insecurity-poverty; why land and water (L&W) management is foundational for building resilience for food security and nutrition in increasingly depleted ecosystems characterised by the concomitance of hunger and exposure to shocks; and how this affects livelihoods facing multiple pressures. The session will identify some of the key challenges in pursuing this agenda and why is crucial to include L&W management in major strategies and programmes related to resilience for food security and nutrition and agricultural development. The session will also explore a number of opportunities that L&W management offers, to bind different complementary efforts able to provide sustainable solutions in the face of an increasing risky environment.

Speakers:

Salih Orabi (Sudan, WFP)

Sidiki Traore Boubacar (Niger, WFP)

Arefeen S. Syed (Bangladesh, WFP)

Syprose Achieng OGOLA (Sudan, FAO)

12.30 – 14.00

LUNCH & Open space (OS) events in parallel *2 Book this time slot for your event (booking board available in the Flag Hall)

12.30 – 13.30 13.30 – 14.00

Queen Juliana Cuba Pakistan Canada Iran Room

OS 3.1 :Sustainable Investments in Water for Poverty Reduction (Patricia Mejias Moreno)

*2 *2 *2 D 3- DOCUMENTARY - Soils Film Festival:

*2 *2 OS-3.2 Methodology: Family farms typology at different scales to contribute to better project design (Marie Aude Even)

*2 Iran Room

OS-3.3 Short documentaries on Land and Water: (5’each) -The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest

3

AFTERNOON DAY 3

14.00 – 15.00 Iraq Room (A/B building, 2

nd floor)

(24) World Café 1: “Learning from mistakes: an open dialogue on trials and errors” Coordinator: Nicoletta Forlano, Facilitators: Sophie Treinen, Frédérique Matras, Domitille Vallée

We have all made mistakes and will certainly continue to make them. But failures and errors often teach us valuable lessons that can be of great worth for future commitments. The aim of this event is to share and learn from mishaps related to work on land and water issues, to hopefully prevent others from making the same mistakes.

15.00 – 16.00 Iraq Room (A/B building, 2

nd floor)

(25) World Café 2: “Regional synergies to ensure lasting impacts in land and water programs and projects. Collective review of opportunities for cooperation” Facilitators : Domitille, Sophie Treinen, Frédérique Matras

This session aims to gather the collective wisdom of the participants on opportunities for cooperation that may have come out of discussions during the Land and Water Days. Participants will be invited to different ‘regional tables’ and contribute their ideas for regional cross-regional cooperation. Regions will prepare this World café during the previous days (check the Open space agendas).

16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE TEA BREAK 16.30 – 17.30 Sheikh Zayed Center (Atrium)

(26) Plenary Closing session: “Joining forces for lasting impacts”

Facilitator: Mohamed Manssouri (FAO)

This session will be an opportunity to reflect on the three days, from the perspective of governance, integrated approaches, resilience, risks and climate change, and to propose avenues for concrete collaboration among the three agencies on land and water management.

Speakers:

Laurent Thomas, Assistant Director General, TCD, FAO

Olcay Unver, NRL, FAO,

Rikke Olivera, IFAD,

Volli Carucci, WFP

3Short documentaries on Land and Water will include :

The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest –Third Round of Videos: 9) Use of lime to address soil acidity (Kenya); 10) Cubiertas vegetales contra la erosion (Spain); 11) Vetiver strong grass for better soils (Kenya); 12) Ampayaj, un technique agro-ecologique de paillage des culture d’igname (Guadeloupe); 13) The practice of Agriculture of Conservation in the handling of soil in the midst of farmers (Mozambique).

Post-Events: Friday 13 November

MORNING

09.00 – 13.00

(Queen Juliana Room)

Project meeting More Effective and Sustainable Investments in Water for Poverty Reduction GCP/INT/167/IWM -

(Organizer: Patricia Mejias Moreno)

(Cuba)

Side Meeting (FAO)

Meeting on Central Asia projects and programs ” (FAO)

(Organizer: Ines Beernaerts)

(Pakistan)

Side Meeting (FAO) Meeting of the FAO Land Tenure Team

(Organizer: Tea Dabrundashvili)

Market Place Closed

Please remove all you publication, posters, tools

12.30 – 13.30

(Iran Room) D 4- DOCUMENTARY - Soils Film Festival:

L’ età del cemento (Mario Petitto, Italia 2012, 30’)

13.30-14.00 Short documentaries on Land and Water: (5’each)

The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest4

AFTERNOON

14.00-15.30

(Queen Juliana Room) Project meeting (continue) More Effective and Sustainable Investments in Water for Poverty Reduction GCP/INT/167/IWM -

(Canada Room or Iran Room tbc)

Post event –(FAO) Technical Network s on Land and Water – Reflection Meeting(Organizer: Olcay Unver)

15.30-16.30

4Short documentaries on Land and Water will include :

The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest –Fourth Round of Videos: 14)Un peu de feuilles mortes pour redonner vie à la terre (Burkina Faso); 15)Plantar (Cuba); 16) Sustainable soil management (Kenya); 17) Is there enough soil to feed the world (Italy).

Details: Documentaries and Short videos

DOCUMENTARY (Water) D1- Store a Drop (Marco Leopardi, Italy / India, 2012), 41’

Tuesday 10, 12.00-13:00 Iran Room

This documentary tells the stories of farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India. When the monsoon rains are insufficient the harvests can be lost and the lives of thousands of people will be affected dramatically. This is a good example on how a simple solution like how to store water can dramatically change thousands of lives.

DOCUMENTARY -SOILS’ FILM FESTIVAL - FAO 2015

D2- Timbaktu (Rintu Thomas and Sushmita Ghosh, India, 2012), 30’

Wednesday 11, 12:30-13:30 Iran Room

A virtuous example of good practices. The movie shows how organic agriculture defends soils and gives a new life to damaged soils previously treated with pesticides and fertilizers. When a small farming community in South India decided to switch from their decades-old practice of chemical agriculture to organic farming, little did they know that they were planting the seeds of a silent revolution. By showcasing the exemplary efforts of farmers of a tiny village in Andhra Pradesh, Timbaktu explores critical issues of food security and sovereignty.

Opening by author (Skype): tbc & Panel discussion with : Nadia Scialabba, Organic Agriculture, NRC, Caterina Batello, Agroecology, AGP (tbc), Harinder Makkar, AGA (tbc)

D3- Hope in a changing climate (John D. Liu, USA, 2009), 29’

Thursday 12, 12:30-13:30 Iran Room

This work approaches in a scientific way the theme of conservation of degraded soils. It is focused in particular on the situation of Chinese Yellow River. John D. Liu is an international expert on large scale restoration projects on degraded lands. First exposed to large-scale degraded ecosystems in the Loess Plateau in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River in 1995, he was fascinated by how human history has altered physical landscapes. The loss of biodiversity, hydrological regulation, weather regulation, climate regulation, soil fertility and agricultural productivity had led to massive poverty and continuous ecological crisis. "Over the years I have witnessed the steps the Chinese people have taken to restore this region's ecology and have tried to understand the implications of what I have seen and documented".

Opening by author (Skype): John D. Liu, Director Documentary & Panel discussion with Sally Bunning, NRL (tbc), Daniel Dale, NENA (tbc).

D4- L'età del cemento (The age of cement) (Mario Petitto, Italia 2012), 30’

Friday 13th, 12:30-13:30 Iran Room

The documentary cast the light on the question of soil consumption in a large area of Italian Pianura Padana. This area is losing 100.000 square meters of soil each day.

The Padan Plain is lost to new housing developments, shopping malls, and industrial zones due to re-zoning motivated by politics and profit. Mistaken for a sign of progress, the accelerated rate of land consumption in the last 10 years is drastically changing the physical landscape.

Panel discussion with Machiko Taguchi (AGP) (tbc), Feras Ziadat (NRL) (tbc)

SHORT DOCUMENTARIES

Farmers’ Soil video contest presented from the 10th (13.30-14.00) and 11 to 13/11 (14.00-14.30) The Farmers’ Soil Practices video contest is a joint initiative of various divisions within FAO (DDNR/NRL/OPC/OCC). It has been launched by the TECA team of FAO’s Research and Extension Unit (DDNR), within the framework of the International Year of Soils. TECA stands for “Technology for Agriculture” and is aimed at providing technologies and practices for small-scale farmers, extension workers and rural advisory services. The knowledge sharing platform provides the service for storing and disseminating content which is related to small-scale farming applications on all levels. It can be seen as a gateway for the exchange of development related knowledge, while targeting rural users in the field. The videos shown in this session have been produced and contributed within the context of video contest by small-scale farmers, development practitioners, media producers and research institutions. They contributed very valuable perceptions and perspectives on soil as a non-renewable natural resources and the importance of protecting it for future generations. The views and perspectives expressed in the videos do not necessarily represent FAO’s views, positions, strategies or opinions. We highly acknowledge their effort to work on a contribution to the video contest and would like to invite you to join their experiences and views. Description of the 16 videos selected:

1. Una amiga de la naturaleza (Nicaragua): This video describes basic steps for the preparation of a small garden for self-sufficiency, including the preparation of a raised plant bed, composting and the preparation of the substrate for seedlings. It shows many steps for preparing self-cooked dishes with vegetables coming from a small garden.

2. Les micro-fermes urbaines (La Réunion): The small territorial size and its topography have been eversince a major constraint for the sustainable use of soil resources for agriculture on La Réunion island. This short movie shows alternatives to the overuse of natural resources and promulgates a new generation of agriculturalists.

3. Rehabilitación de suelos degradados mediante curvas de nivel y reforestación con especies nativas (Chile): In Chile, deforestation, land degradation and erosion of fertile soil have been a major concern for the last centuries. This short “visual manual” depicts a step-by-step solution for solving all three problems in once. It is a video that raises hope for a “greener” Southamerica.

4. Local micro-organisms (Indonesia): Biofertilization using local MO strains form a cheap alternative to the application of mineral fertilizers. This is important especially in small-scale faming environments. The movie illustrates a step-by-step description for producing local MO applications in Indonesia.

5. Eficientes aliados del agricultor (Cuba): Augmenting efficient microorganisms is the central topic of this short, but easily understandable video in Spanish. The contributing farmer shows a local applied method of how to augment efficient MOs by anaerobic lactic acid fermentation.

6. Agroforestia dinamica y carbono activado (Bolivia): How to restore degraded landscapes by reforestation? And how to combine the organic material provided by the newly established multispecies forests for the production of biochar? This short video illustrates a technique that could be applied under various climatic conditions and with a very low level of investment for improving soil fertility.

7. Vetiver strong grass for better soils (Kenya): The technique depicted in this video refers to a local species of perennial bunchgrass of the Poaceae family that helps to stabilise soils and protects it against erosion and also protects fields against pests and weeds. Here, it is shown, how to apply it within a small-scale farming environment in Kenya.

8. Practice for soil improvement in Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka):There are many techniques that can be used for improving soil structure, preventing soil erosion and boosting soil fertility. The author of this video provides a short outlook on the manifoldness of practices for a sustainable soil management.

9. Use of lime to address soil acidity (Kenya):The pH of soil is a major aspect when considering the availability of nutrients in soils. The video makers suggest liming as a promising application and show how to best apply it.

10. Cubiertas vegetales contra la erosion (Spain): In the semi-arid regions of the Mediterranean, water and wind erosion is a major problem. The video maker depicts a common practice for the protection of soils against erosion in tree crop plantations in Spain.

11. Ampayaj, un technique agro-ecologique de paillage des culture d’igname (Guadeloupe): In this video a research center provides the method of mulching and soil cover as a suitable means for protecting soils. They show how easily traditional agricultural practices could be used for improving soil conditions.

12. The practice of Agriculture of Conservation in the handling of soil in the midst of farmers (Mozambique): A perspective on Conservation Agriculture from a small-scale producer’s view.

13. Un peu de feuilles mortes pour redonner vie à la terre (Burkina Faso): A promising video on small, but effective practices for fighting desertification. This movie provides an easy to copy practice for enhancing soil fertility and increasing yields from a country that is facing water shortages and soil deteriorations on a large scale.

14. Plantar (Cuba): Planting has always been a central theme of food security. Here, we can lean back and enjoy watching, how easy and fast a tree can be planted.

15. Sustainable soil management (Kenya): This video depicts the success of an initiative in Kenya that tries to reach improved soil management within the premises of food sovereignty.

16. Is there enough soil to feed the world (Italy): In order to calculate the earth’s capacity for producing food, the trade-off between soil consumption and urbanization is elaborated in this animated video, using a mathematical approach.

DIMITRA Video on Access to Water and Land –shown on 10th (13.30-14.00) and 11th (14.00-14.30) Dimitra is an FAO gender sensitive participatory communication approach that promotes individual and collective socio-economic empowerment of rural populations, women and youth in particular, through the Dimitra Clubs. These clubs are informal women, men or mixed groups that meet regularly to discuss their development priorities and challenges, exchange their experiences with other clubs, make informed choices and take collective action to solve their problems – related to agriculture or other issues - with their own resources. In this approach, community radio can also be used as a relay to improving flows of information, communication and networking. FAO-Dimitra Clubs exist in Niger, DRC, Senegal, Mauritania, Burundi and Ghana, with over 25,000 direct beneficiaries and 150,000 indirect beneficiaries. This Video illustrates how to use this approach for land and water issues.

GIAHS –Videos- shown on the 9th November (13.00-14.00) Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) are defined as "Remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaptation of a community with its environment and its needs and aspirations for sustainable development; Various Videos will be shown to present stories in GIAHS sites in China and Tunisia.

WWAP /Water Rooms – Shown on the 9th November (13.00 – 14.00) and on the 10th (session 7- Ground water governance-

15.30-17.30 pm)

Five short animated movies produced this year as a new outreach effort based on the findings of the WWDR 2015 "Water for a Sustainable World". The initative is called "The Water Rooms" and it is a project composed by five short animated movies and five monologues written by internationally reknown authors. The project tells the story of water in all its multifaceted aspects, starting from the understanding of the hydrological cycle leading up to reflections over water conflicts and sustainable development. The project can be performed all together (for a total of 45 minutes) or used only in some of its parts - as it was done during the "Greening the Islands" Conference where 3 movies have been screened in between panels. The project was launched at Expo 2015 in the Auditorium of the Italian Pavilion on 21 September 2015, as it was part of the UN-Expo Zero Hunger Challenge initiative. Soon all the videos will be available on a portal.

Others Videos/documentaries In addition, short videos and animation will be shown in the Flag Hall on a large screen from the 9 to the 12 November. The detailed list and links will be provided in the Reports of the Days.