No Agriculture, No Deal: Agriculture Must be a Part of Any Climate Change Agreement

Copenhagen – To achieve long term sustainable solutions to climate change, farmers, through the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), urges government negotiators to provide strong political support for linking food security with climate change adaptation and mitigation in the shared vision of the Copenhagen final outcome document.

One out of three people on this planet work in agriculture, and as a consequence farmers are the largest ecosystem managers.

[...]

15 Mar 2010

IFAP Advocates Farming for Sustainable Development at UNEP Governing Council

IFAP

From February 24-26, 2010, IFAP representatives joined Environmental Ministers and UNEP officials in Bali, Indonesia for the 11th special session of the Global Ministerial Environment forum and the Governing Council to advocate the interests of farmers in terms of sustainable development, ecosystem services and biodiversity. The Farmers’ Major Group was [...]

25 Feb 2010

IFAP Farmer Leaders Meet with OECD Agriculture Ministers

IFAP

OECD Agriculture Ministers are meeting to discuss how to create food and agriculture policies for a sustainable future. Throughout the morning, IFAP farmer leaders from OECD countries, as well as IFAP’s President Ajay Vashee, met with Nikolaus Berlakovich, Austria’s Agriculture Minister, and David Carter, Agriculture Minister of New Zealand - [...]

18 Jan 2010

International Green Week 2010

IFAP

IFAP’s President Ajay Vashee, at the invitation of the Deutscher Bauernverband (German Farmers’ Union), will give a keynote speech to a panel of 55 agriculture ministers from throughout the world at 11 AM on Saturday, January 16 at 11:00 AM at during International Green Week 2010 in Berlin, Germany. A [...]

12 Jan 2010

International Year of Biodiversity

IFAP

January 11, 2010 marked the launch of the International Year of Biodiversity under the theme Biodiversity is Life – Biodiversity is Our Life. It is a theme of critical interest to farmers since biodiversity and agriculture are interdependent; both are also key elements to address climate change and food security. [...]