Side Event
Ecoagriculture: Conserving Biodiversity in Working Landscapes
Organizer
Ecoagriculture Partners: co-sponsored by IUCN, ICRAF, Forest Trends & the Future Harvest Foundation
Date and Time
19 February 2004 13:15 - 14:45
<br>Ecoagriculture refers to resource management systems and practices that integrate productivity goals (for crops, livestock, fish, trees and forests) with provision of ecosystem services (such as biodiversity and watershed services) at a landscape scale. <br><br> Ecoagriculture Partners is an international partnership formed in 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, whose mission is to transform rural landscapes where both agricultural production and natural biodiversity are highly valued to ecoagriculture. Co-sponsored by the World Agroforestry Centre, IUCN, Forest Trends, and Future Harvest, the partnership includes a diversity of actors from farming, conservation, research and policy communities whose work is essential to develop and scale up ecoagriculture systems. <br><br> The event will include presentations and discussion on: <br><br> • Ecoagriculture innovation worldwide - presented by community practitioners <br> • The partnership’s on-going activities, particularly the forthcoming International Ecoagriculture Conference and Practitioners’ Fair. <br> • Recommendations for action, formulated during the Community Kampung’s Agriculture and Biodiversity day. <br><br> For further information on Ecoagriculture Partners, please visit our website:<a href=http://www.ecoagriculturepartners.org>www.ecoagriculturepartners.org</a> or contact Sara J. Scherr, Ecoagriculture Partners Director, E-mail: Sscherr@forest-trends.org. <br><br> In Kuala Lumpur, please contact: Claire Rhodes, Program Associate, Ecoagriculture Partners crhodes@ecoagriculturepartners.org