GACSA Annual Forum 2023
GACSA Annual Forum 2023 – Expanding Global Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture
GACSA Annual Forum 2023 Report | Agenda
04-05 May 2023 – Hybrid: Rome, Italy and Zoom
The 2023 Annual Forum concept note is framed around GACSA's crosscutting themes of youth, women and finance, emphasizing in all sessions the central role of farmers. In addition, the Annual Forum will focus on showcasing the new activity proposals, giving the opportunity to all GACSA members to be more involved with the Alliance, as these proposals focus on accelerating GACSA’s multi-stakeholder actions, create new tools and share knowledge to lead positive change.
Session 1: Keynote Opening | Highlighting the role of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and the importance on global level
Moderator: GACSA Co-chairs
• Martien van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank | Mainstreaming Climate Smart Agriculture: Financing transformation to support healthy people, a healthy planet and healthy economies
• Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit and President of Sustainably Growing Africa’s Food Systems (AGRA)
• Michael Keller, Chair of the Agri-Food Networks (IAFN)
• Divine Ntiokam, Founder and Managing Director of the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN)
Session 2: Innovation and Technology | GACSA members from the 6 constituencies presenting their CSA Innovation practices and technology used
Moderator: GACSA Co-chairs
• Dr. Kirit Shelat, Executive Chairman National Council for Climate Change Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD) | Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies and Innovation
• Cristina Chirico, Head of International Office Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori (CIA) | CIA keynotes
• Walid Nasr, CEO of ZR3i | Digital Agriculture Platform as a service
• Gladys Morales, Senior Innovation Adviser IFAD | IFAD Climate Smart Agriculture Innovations
• Harry Hunter, CEO NextGen Tek Consulting | Facilitating tech adoption by farmers globally by Using Open-Source Decentralized Platforms
Session 3: Youth is the Future | Welcoming all youth GACSA Members to speak up and presenting starts ups, new CSA practices, e-learnings, training, impact of youth in general
Moderator: Kazuki Kitaoka
• Kazuki Kitaoka, Global Coordinator World Food Forum (WFF/FAO) | Youth is future
• Roberta Ianna, Senior Advisor Italian Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security Youth 4 Climate | Youth4Climate Initiative
• Emanuela Vignola, Senior Advisor Italian Ministry for the Environment and Energy Security and co-leader of Youth 4 Climate
• Divine Ntiokam, Founder of Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (GCSAYN) | GCSAYN VA e-learning platform
• Jesca Muzamhindo, Zimbabwe CSA Coordinator
Session 4: Action Group Session | Highlighting the crosscutting themes of GACSA’s Strategic Plan and to show the importance of farmers as central role on country level as well as provide knowledge sharing regarding Climate Smart Agriculture and recent activities and solutions of the Action Group
Moderator: Allison Chatrchyan and Ernest Shea, Knowledge Action Group
• Allison Chatrchyan, Senior Research Associate at Cornell University and co-chair of the Knowledge Action Group
• Ernest Shea, President of Solutions from the Land and co-chair of the Knowledge Action Group | GACSA Action Groups
• Maria Rosa Mosquera, Professor Crop production and Project Engineering Universidad Santiago de Compostela and co-chair of the Enabling Environment Group
Session 5: Capacity Building (GACSA E-learning and GACSA app)
• Presentation of the proposals from the Project Manager Famke Van der Meer | Capacity building
• Stefano Marras, Director of Global Partnership- UN Affair Bayer | Working together for Climate Smart Agriculture
• Maria Giulia de Castro, Advocacy Policy and Partnership World Farmers Organization (WFO)
• Domenico Vito, Global Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network Country Coordinator for Italy | Analysis of Agros-Smart survey data for the assessment of small farmers' needs for Climate Smart Agriculture implementation
• Alexandre Shinebourne and Julius Davier, from Landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb von Davier Seggerde | The Tunen project
Compass Funding Platform
• Presentation from the Project Manager Valentina Vitale | Compass Funding Platform
• Oshani Perera, Co-founder of Shamba Centre for Food & Climate | Capital for climate-smart farmers
• Margaret Munene, CEO Palmhouse Dairies & Founder Trustee Palmhouse Foundation
Launch of the Shark Tank Approach
• Presentation from the Project Manager Valentina Vitale | GACSA Shark Tank Approach
• John Cordaro, Former Special Representative for Food Security for Mars | Young farmers and entreprenuers: navigating the shark tank
• Charles Spillane, Director Ryan Institute National University of Ireland Galway from Galway (NUIG) | The GACSA Shark Tank approach to support the Climate Smart Agriculture innovators
• Josphat Mokaya, Agri Tanzania Hackaton winner from last edition
Session 6: Regional Alliances Session | Showcasing Climate Smart Agriculture related activities and sharing CSA practices from various regions. Four billboards will be in the room and a pitch of 2 minutes by using the platform Mentimeter
Moderator: Fred Yoder, co-chair of Solutions from the Land and Focal Point of the North America Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (NACSAA) | NACSAA
Session 7: GACSA Governance
Issues to be discussed. Items from the Strategic Committee: the new Strategic Composition, co-hosting arrangements and financial matters.