Anette Engelund Friis on farmer constituency and agriculture in the UNFCCC process
Channel: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Date: 2013-05-31

Interview__ Climate change mitigation and adaptation are often viewed as separate activities, but in agriculture, adaptation measures can also generate significant mitigation effects and vice-versa. Farmers, that are hardest hit by climate change, cooperate as a farmer constituency to raise recognition of agriculture in the UNFCCC process towards developing a work programme on agriculture, that would include both adaptation and mitigation. Annette Engelund Friis explaines why there is still no COP desicion on agriculture and what might be the consequences of such negligence on a long-term prospective.

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00:25 Farmer constituency within the UNFCCC process 
01:25 Objectives of farmer constituency in climate change negotiations
02:43 Work programme on agriculture
05:07 Current state of climate change negotiations
07:00 Expectations from CoP 19 in Warsaw
08:06 Work Programme on agriculture is crucial for setting the right mitigation and adaptation targets
10:09 Supporting farmers outside the UN processes