MAONESHO YA KILIMO MSETO 2023

 

WAJUMBE WA BODI YA BUFADESO 2023- 2025

 

Welcome to our online launch and panel discussion

 

Are you a development practitioner, policymaker or researcher engaging in sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, rural livelihoods or perhaps food security? Would you like to learn about how agroforestry as a method could be scaled up? Welcome to the launch of a new policy brief by Agroforestry Network.

Date: Monday 12 December 2022

 

Time: 14.00-15.00 CET

 

Place: Online on Teams. Register here

 

Panel:

• Elaine Springgay, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, FAO
• Judit Csikvári, European Agroforestry Federation, EURAF
• Elisabeth Simelton, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida
• Emilie Molin, Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation
• Sara Furenhed, Swedish Board of Agriculture
• Linnéa Pasquier, main author of the policy brief, Agroforestry Sweden

Moderator: Charlotta Szczepanowski, Vi Agroforestry (Vi-skogen)

 

The policy brief in short:

Agroforestry can provide solutions for increasingly urgent challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and other global issues, as well as improve ecosystem services, local economies and rural livelihoods. The brief focuses on opportunities, barriers and actions for spreading agroforestry systems more widely. In addition, the brief provides recommended actions to support the upscaling of agroforestry.

 

The policy brief Scaling up agroforestry will be made available on agroforestrynetwork.org on December 12th.

 

Organizer: 

Agroforestry Network – a platform for international agroforestry practise, based in Sweden.

 

Contact:
For questions about the event, please contact Åsa Ljusenius asa.ljusenius@viskogen.se