Side Event
Agricultural Biodiversity for Food Sovereignty
Organizer
PRACTICALACTION/ITDG ON BEHALF OF CBD ALLIANCE AND IPC
Date and Time
19 February 2008 13:15 - 14:45
Civil Society Organisations and Farmers Movements will present key issues and examples concerning the relation of agriculture with biodiversity in the context of the multiple biological, technological, legal and commercial pressures on food production, including climate change and agrofuels. It will demonstrate the significant contribution that agriculture can make to developing biodiversity and that agricultural biodiversity and its vital ecosystem functions can make to realising resilient food sovereignty. For background see the paper produced by the CSO meeting in Berlin in 2007 http://www.cbdalliance.org/agricultural-biodiversity/