ileia in The Hague

A few days ago the Netherlands hosted the “2010 Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change”, which took place in The Hague.

This conference was meant to bring together governments, international organizations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, philanthropic foundations, local community producers and the scientific community, so that they all “develop a roadmap with concrete actions linking agriculture-related investments, policies and measures, to the transition to lower carbon-emitting climate resilient growth”.

What were the results of this large-scale meeting? Here’s what ileia’s director and the Chair of the Board had to say about it:

• Edith van Walsum - ileia's director
  Mind the gap
  "The dust is settling down after the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change that took place in The Hague last week. The conference ended with a presentation of the Chair’s Summary that included a Roadmap for Action..." Read more
  

• Teresa Fogelberg - ileia's Chair of the Board
  Down to earth?
  "'Our world hungers for action', states former Minister of Agriculture Gerda Verburg on the website of the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change. Her message is that agriculture can help mitigate climate change..." Read more