Agenda

Final agenda - Climate Change and Agriculture Trade: Risks and Responses

Workshop presentations

  Session 1:  How Do Climate Change, Poverty, and Trade Relate?

• Climate Change, Trade and Poverty, Amer Ahmed and Will Martin, World Bank Development Research Group

• Climate Change and Agricultural Trade: How effective is reform as an adaptation measure?, Gerald Nelson, International Food Policy Research Institute

 Session 2:  Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Trade Trends and the Resulting Political-Economic Effects

• Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Trade Trends and the Resulting Political-Economic Effects, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, World Bank Development Prospects Group

 Session 3:  The Legal Framework for Food Safety in a Changing Global Climate

• Legal Responses to Climate Change, Caoimhín MacMaoláin, Trinity College Dublin

 Session 4:  Moving Forward:  the Operational and Research Agenda

• Climate Change and Sustainability , Alejandro Deeb, World Bank Sustainable Development

  Day 2 - 23 September 2009

  Session 1:  Implications of Climate Change for SPS Risks

• Climate Change: Food Safety Implications, Renata Clarke, FAO

• Implications of climate change for SPS risks - with a focus on animal disease and production, Peter Black, Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

• Climatic effects on pestilence and SPS risks?, Matt Ayres, Dartmouth College

  Session 2:  Addressing SPS Risks related to Climate Change

• Climate Change and Trade, Bryan Dierlam, Cargill

• Climate Change Issues in Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Allan Auclair, United States Department of Agriculture

  Session 3:  Future Needs in SPS Technical Cooperation

• Future Needs in SPS Technical Assistance, Jaime Cardenas-Lopez, Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario

• Future Needs in SPS Technical Cooperation, Richard Sikora, CGIAR Systemwide Programme on Integrated Pest Management

• Adapting to a Changing Climate - Responses of German Technical Cooperation, Kerstin Silvestre Garcia, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

  Session 4:  Mainstreaming Climate Change and SPS in Policy-Making

• Climate Change and Agriculture Trade – Risks and Responses, Michael Scannell, DG SANCO, European Commission

• Climate Change and Invasive Alien Species: Some Thoughts on Regulatory Challenges, Ian D. Campbell, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

List of participants

Relevant documents

STDF Briefing Note 2 - Climate Change and SPS Risks and Responses  English  French

STDF Background Note - Implications of Climate Change on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Issues and Development Objectives

Climate Change: Implications for Food Safety, FAO,2008

Climate Change: Impact on the Epidemiology and Control of Animal Diseases. Scientific Review. Vol. 27 (2). , OIE, August 2008