FTA 2020 Science Conference - Rachel Bezner Kerr, 22 September - Keynote speech
Channel: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Date: 24/03/2021

Rachel Bezner Kerr, Associate Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University. "Transforming livelihood: towards transformation " - 22 September 2020.

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From 14 to 25 September 2020, the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) ran its decadal conference. The fully digital conference, titled “Forest, trees and agroforestry science for transformational change” drew more than 520 participants from 69 countries around the world. It featured close to 200 interventions from scientists involved in the FTA program spread over 10 days and 26 different sessions. It included keynote speeches, controversial panel debates on “hot topics”, and technical presentations and posters. 
 
The material from the conference is now being made available: 
 
Web portal: https://www.foreststreesagroforestry.org/fta-2020-science-conference-forests-trees-and-agroforestry-science-for-transformational-change/ 
Book of abstracts: https://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/FTA/Book-of-Abstracts.pdf 
Highlight video: https://youtu.be/sSS-bsBTqqM
Keynote videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ1FEAFDHOWeCsTH4UXQjE0HBw71yG1LB

 
Read more: https://www.foreststreesagroforestry.org/news-article/new-website-showcases-forests-trees-and-agroforestry-topics-from-the-fta-2020-science-conference/ 
 

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FTA is the world's largest research for development program to enhance the role of forests, trees and agroforestry in sustainable development and food security and to address climate change. CIFOR leads FTA in partnership with ICRAF, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CATIE, CIRAD, INBAR and TBI. https://www.foreststreesagroforestry.org/