Right before the French Days of #Agriculture 2023, let’s dive in the One Planet Fellowship’s #Science Week!
💚 Follow me for 2 days amongst the inspirational programme’s Laureates!
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#OnePlanetFellowship #JNAgri #research #climate
🚀 First, a global overview of the #OPF programme - @FondationBNPP has been supporting for 5 years! - by François Pierrot, Acting Director & Ly Ann Kauv Project Officer, from @Agrofondation, Olivier Dangles (@ird_fr) & Michèle Mbo’o-Tchouawou, Deputy Director @AWARDFellowship
🌟 Key notions, challenges and issues reminded:
- New generation of researchers
- Gender equality in science & agriculture
- EU 🔁 Africa
- From local to global
- Capacity building
- Network
- Collaboration (North-South, AND South-South!)
- Transdisciplinary projects
- Community of practice
- Communicating better to real world problems, with society and citizens
📸 Photo call to identify all the participants of the Week!
#Laureates, #Mentors,African & European #Supervisors, #Mentees, and all the people working with and for the programme!
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🎤 Now, the testimony from an European Supervisor, @giovannaseddaiu - professor at @UniSassari (Italy)
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And next, the testimony from a 2019 cohort Laureate, Alassan Assani Seidou (University of Parakou, Benin) about how being involved in this #emerging OPF programme has helped him join an international research team & a transdisciplinary project 1/2
2/2 to develop (their) work on modelling of animal production and nutrition systems, especially in protected areas and facing climate change
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#research #outreach @Cirad #ProtectedAreas #climate
Let’s go for a conference on #Climate change and #agri: key challenges and the way forward
From science to politics
w/ Patrick Caron (@Agropolis/@CGIAR), Marie Hrabanski (@Cirad), Valérie Dermaux (@Agri_Gouv) and Benjamin Sultan (@ird_fr)
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💬Patrick Caron:
How to build connections between 1)#climate & #agriculture 2) #science & #action ie.
the role of science in politics
Recommandation: #adaptation to climate change (CC) to be a co-objective of #food #security and #mitigation (attenuation)
💬 Marie Hrabanski (Researcher in political sociology at @Cirad) shared the points of reference to understand the integration of agricultural challenges in the climate negotiations as well as what could be the implications of a research lab in political sciences interfaces?
There has been an evolution of the vision of agriculture: from not considering agricultural challenges in climate negotiations (too much political) + focus on CC #mitigation ➡️ to agriculture emitting GHG but also a victim of CC and a solution #naturebasedsolutions + #adaptation
➡️ Climate Smart Agriculture #CSA
Important involvement and contribution of @Cirad in this momentum of political science, w/ @ird_fr & @INRAE_France: COPs, negotiation processes, policy briefs production, etc.
In Africa, there is a need to work on development policies that take into account climate and not try and add the issue afterwards
💬 Valérie Dermaux, Climate change negotiations @Agri_Gouv
How to involve scientists and experts groups? ⤵️
In order to implement #ClimateAction for #FoodSecurity: strengthen cooperation, collaboration and partnerships w/ Parties, UN organisations, relevant institutions, agencies entities, research community, private sector, civil society, farmers organisations, etc.
Upcoming work on:
- Approaches to #sustainable agriculture and food security (SAFS)
- Understanding diverse actions, practices, and technology to deliver SAFS
- Means of implementation
- Cooperative avenues for implementation for SAFS
- Informing #CapacityBuilding efforts related to measuring, monitoring, reporting, and verifying climate action for SAFS
- #fisheries
💬 Benjamin Sultan (Research Director @ird_fr)
How is the climate going to evolve and incidentally these issues too in this context?
@IPCC_CH is an observatory of climate evolution, history and prospective
CC is ongoing, particularly visible and intense in Africa:
- temperatures
- speed of warming
- marine heatwaves
- quicker sea level rise
- increase in frequency and intensity of heavy rains and droughts
🧠 We’ll discuss more approaches tomorrow with the 3 GIEC/IPCC experts!
Conclusion ⤵️
💪🏾 The challenges for #science:
- Connecting sectors (feed, protect, care)
- Provide scientific evidence of obstacles towards transformation
- Technology only will not solve all the issues
- #Metrics are and will be key
- Re-connecting adaptation and mitigation
- Forecast and foresight: let’s not focus only on the past, predicting the future requires exploring the unknown, considering the inconceivable!
➡️ Science-policy interfaces and pooling collective intelligence
- Solutions, innovations are technological but also 🚨political & institutional ➡️ challenge for #science to make sure works on CC fit in #adaptation & #mitigation negotiations & policies at inter-/national level
To start off the afternoon, 2 testimonies: Success stories about climate change and agriculture
Introduction by Isabelle Touzard, VP of @Montpellier3m in charge of ecological and solidarity transition (of the city of Montpellier)
Fields of research and works of the #OPF laureates are at the heart of the city’s concerns
➡️ How to involve science in urban planning strategies (food landscape), engineering of agricultural land-use, taking biodiversity into account, waste management, water management, etc.
💬 First success story told by @JmarcTouzard Director of the Innovation Research Unit @INRAE_France
“How research can influence public policies” through the #wine industry case study
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💬 second success story told by Benjamin Sultan (@ird_fr, and) Scientific Advisor for #OPF programme,
The outputs and impacts the programme had on one “laureate” research team in #Djibouti: recommendations to
🔭anticipate the risks for different threats (flood, droughts)
and for different secteurs (agriculture, water resources, health, catastrophes management)
🌧️ or to leverage rainy season
🗣️ It’s now time for the first part of Laureates’ Pitch contest!
📷: few of the 13 laureates pitching today
🎤 Last session of the day
“Incentivising South-South, North-South Research Collaboration: Experiences & Lessons from the One Planet Fellowship” #OPF
Moderated by @Dorinebolo 🌟
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To help laureate researchers participate in global and regional conversations, to be involved in policy #influence (e.g. science-policy interfaces, etc.),
Laureate Groups were created so English- and French-speaking Laureates would
work together ➡️ breaking discipline, language, geographical and cultural #barriers
There are also laureates and groups paying great attention at #gender responsiveness of their work, & pushing/advocating for #genderequality in #agriculture & #research
👏🏾💪🏾Conclusion:
All actors are key - governments, scientists, public sector, private sector, etc.
Climate change is a complex topic & issue (incl. social impacts) that needs each & everyone to be involved in its resolution!
See you tomorrow for Day 2 of this #OPF Science Week
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