Evidence-Based Knowledge for Sustainable Pathways in the Land Sector - A Focus on Agriculture and Africa

Tuesday 31 May, 15:00-17:00 (CEST), online

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Accelerating the environmental dimension of sustainable development necessitates more integrated visions on the ground and at all relevant scales. This Stockholm + 50 associated event aims to precise environmental challenges for the land sector - biodiversity, climate change and land degradation - and food security, nutrition, poverty in an integrated way. It also calls for a knowledge based evaluation of pathways along multiple sustainability criteria to enlighten decisions for transitions in the land sector, in particular in agriculture. Key messages of three policy briefs published by CIRAD, IDDRI, INRAE and IRD will be presented.

How to strengthen knowledge-based actionable knowledge and capacity building to tackle those challenges at scale as well as to improve expertise for policymakers will then be discussed in the context of Africa.

The event aims to foster collective action and cooperation between stakeholders, policymakers and scientists, in order to improve policy coherence on the land sector and between sectors. It contributes therefore particularly to Leadership Dialogue 3 “Accelerating the implementation of the environmental dimension of Sustainable Development in the context of the Decade of Action”.

Programme:

- Opening: Stockholm+50, Context and challenges, with Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director of IDDRI

- Knowledge based key messages from policy briefs published by CIRAD, IDDRI, INRAE and IRD:

• Transitions in the land sector and environmental integrity: safe and just pathways towards climate neutrality, with Claire Weil, principal advisor on Science and international policy at INRAE, and Jean-François Soussana, Vice-President for internbational policy at INRAE and IPCC lead author.
• Sustainable land use transitions: moving beyond the 30% target, with Catherine Aubertin, researcher at IRD, and Pierre Girard, researcher at CIRAD-MUSE.
• Tackle climate change: recommendations for agricultural adaptation policies for tomorrow, with Marie Hrabanski, researcher at CIRAD, and Pape Bilal Diakhaté, researcher at ISRA-BAME.

- Scientific projects focusing on Africa

- Avenues to strengthen research in Africa for designing and developing solutions at scale, with Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of IPCC. 

- Closure