More than 500 on-site side events organized by Governments, Major Groups, Organizations from the UN system and other International Organizations
will take place in RioCentro during Prepcom III (13-15 June), the Sustainable Development Dialogue Days (16-19 June) and the Summit (20-22 June).
Please see below the preliminary programme of
on-site side events in RioCentro. For questions, please contact us at
side_events@uncsd2012.org.
13 - 22 June 2012
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Sustainable Intensification,Agroecology - Right to Food and Climate
Lead organizer:
International Alliance of Catholic Development Agencies
Room:
T-8
Among key issues under discussion at UNCSD are agriculture and climate change, sustainable intensification of food production, and appropriate technologies for sustainable agriculture. In light of the right to food, this side event will review what kind of climate-friendly intensification is needed, and what technologies and practices should be considered as appropriate.
Based on investigations and evidence, the panel will examine whether approaches promoted by stakeholders in the context of the green economy, such as no-tillage farming, low external input agriculture, and their inclusion in carbon markets, represent real solutions in view of human rights and climate criteria. The results of joint scientific research and projects will be presented, bringing new light to promising practices and policy measures to support their scale-up.
11:00 - 12:30
Sun 17 Jun
Please note that this Side event is taking place outside RioCentro in the Barra Arena.
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Scaling-Up Agro-Ecological Food Production
Lead organizer:
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA)
Room:
UN2 (Barra Arena)
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) is the most inclusive international advocacy network of churches and Christian organizations with members and constituents in the tens of millions.
Under EAA?s Food for Life Campaign, and in collaboration with UN and civil society partners, we promote just and sustainable production and consumption of food, and the right to food for all people. We advocate for food production, trade and distribution systems that are just, participatory and democratic while at the same time environmentally, economically and socially sustainable.
?Scaling-Up Agro-Ecological Food Production? will profile sustainable, smallholder-based, agro-ecological methods of food production. EAA will showcase research and case studies demonstrating the positive impacts of such methods in terms of both yield and environmental sustainability. Our aim is to stimulate discussion on the economic and environmental practicality of feeding the world through scaled-up implementation of agro-ecological food production methods.
Agricultural transition - into a viable food future
Lead organizer:
More and Better Network
Room:
T-4
There is an urgent need to transform unsustainable agriculture and food systems. Industrial agriculture and other forms of unsustainable practices have caused dramatic problems. But resilient and sustainable modes of food production exist, and small scale food producers nourish more than 70% of the global population.
How can we make the transition into agricultural production and food systems which can
- drastically reduce poverty,
- reduce climate change and cool the planet,
- restore biodiversity, soil fertility and water resources,
- improve livelihoods and provide employment for billions of people,
- produce enough, good and nutritious food for 9 billion people or more?
Examples of sustainable food systems and lessons learned from transition into such systems will be presented. Leader of farmers? organizations and international institutions will together with scientists and activists discuss how a transition into a viable food future can happen.
On Right to Water, Green Economy and Right based approaches to Sustainable Development
Lead organizer:
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Room:
T-8
The planet is facing multiple environmental crises and many of them mediated through water. The escalating water challenges result in human communities without access to water for their basic livelihood needs and ecosystems and species that suffer destruction and extinction. Globalized industrial agri-food systems are a big part of the problem. An essential component of effective, sustainable water governance is right to water ? right to water to meet the basic needs of people and to help ensure ecosystem sustenance locally. By contrast, our environmental laws permit a ?race to the bottom? system that legalizes pollution and over-diversion. Legal recognition of rights of people, waterways, and species to water for life and well-being is necessary, to help guide new governance systems that encourage respectful use of water rather than a system that is based on commodification of nature, to ensure the security of current and future generations of people and species.
