Our capacity to feed 9.5 billion people in 2050 and achieve the right to food for all in the context of climate change will depend on our ability to adapt and transform our food system to be fairer, more resilient and more sustainable. As family farmers are the first and most affected by both hunger's challenges and the consequences of climate change, innovations in and support to family farming are crucial to transform agriculture.

To set the scene in the run up to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference the side event will explain the threats and opportunities that climate change poses to agriculture and food security, and demonstrate the key role of agriculture, in terms of adaptation and mitigation. The particular nexus between food security, soils and climate change will be presented and concrete solutions that already exist in this field will be laid out, such as the "4 pour 1000" initiative that aims to increase soil carbon sequestration in order to improve soil quality and fertility while absorbing and reducing the rate of carbon in the air.

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll are attending the event.