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Due to popularity of this conference, all delegate places at this event have now been taken and we have had to close registration. We are sorry for any disappointment this may cause.
Plenary presentations are being broadcast live throughout the week. Don't worry if you miss a presentation as they will all be archived and available at your convenience on the GECAFS website.
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 Free Public Lecture
Global Change and Rural Communities: is sustainable development still possible?
Dr Prabhu Pingali, Head of Agriculture, Policy and Statistics, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Thursday 3 April, 6-6.45pm, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
The conference programme will comprise plenary lectures supplemented by parallel sessions of contributed papers exploring the following main themes of the conference:
- Concepts and methods for research on food systems, vulnerability and adaptation, scenarios and decision support
- Regional research from the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Southern Africa, The Caribbean, Europe and elsewhere
- The development agenda and policy processes regarding Global Environmental Change (GEC) and food security
- Emerging issues and frameworks for analysis and policy development of adaptation options for food systems to GEC
Conference Sessions
- Case studies of food system vulnerability to global environmental change in the context of multiple stresses
- Environmental change and the meanings of food
- Improving climate forecasting for food security research
- Panel Discussion on Responses of food system activists to climate change
- Developing adaptation options and building adaptive capacity for food systems
- Poster Discussion on Water and food security in the future
- Trade and market reform for food system adaptation
- Managing embodied greenhouse gas emissions in food
- Managing cross-scale interactions of food systems and GEC
- Governance of food systems
- Regional scenarios of food systems and environmental change
- Biofuels and food security
- Resilience of food systems
- Tradeoffs between ecosystem services, food security and economic growth
- Workshop on Promoting dialogues for linking knowledge and action on food systems and GEC
- European food systems in a changing world
- Panel Discussion on Food industry strategies for GEC adaptation and mitigation
- Institutional and policy challenges for agroecosystem management in relation to food security
- Workshop on Analysis of the international environmental assessments and food security
- Decision support for food security
- Managing conflicts related to food security and environmental change
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