Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE)
Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT)
Asociacion para la Naturaleza y el Desarrollo Sostenible (ANDES)
Biodiversity Conservation in Asia Programme (BUCAP)
Community Biodiversity Development and Conservation (CBDC)

Farming provides multiple services to society from production of food, non-food products, delivery of ecosystem services and land stewardship to enhance and protect biodiversity. It plays a key role for rural development and employment contributing to its economic growth, thereby reducing poverty and hunger.



Biodiversity and climate change has become the center of negotiations in various environmental negotiating bodies. Different sectors face distinct challenges but farmers and farming communities in the developing countries are among the most vulnerable groups. SEARICE

SEARICE together with its partners believe that community-based farming conservation practices is an adaptive mechanism in reducing the vulnerability of farmers to the adverse impacts of climate change while conserving and enhancing in- situ agro-biodiversity. To them, green economy pertains to these practices that are participatory, community based, indigenous, culturally and socially appropriate, sustainable and most importantly rights driven.

The side event is primarily aimed at presenting concrete models of sustainable economies that have benefited local communities in the countries of Zimbabwe, Bhutan, Peru, Vietnam. It also hopes to distill lessons useful to the discussion of the Green Economy in the Rio+20 process. Specifically, the event will focus on the following:

1. Inter-community agreement for community sharing: The Potato Park Case (speaker to be confirmed)
2. BUCAP Bhutan's experience on the blue economy - National Biodiversity Center (speaker to be confirmed)
3. CBDC - Vietnam's experiences on Sustainable Agricultural Production - Mr. Huynh Quang Tin
4. CTDT - Zimbabwe's experiences on Sustainable Agriculture Production - Mr. Patrick Kasasa