A Wall Street Journal blog post today highlighted an open letter from FAO and its partners calling on negotiators at the COP17 climate talks in Durban, South Africa, to recognise the important role of agriculture in addressing climate change and approve a Work Program for the agriculture sector under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice.
The coalition of agricultural organizations are also organizing an Agriculture and Rural Development Day on 3 December to share best practices on climate-smart agriculture and show how agriculture is part of the climate solution.
Tomorrow, 29 November, FAO will be hosting “climate-smart knowledge day” in Durban. Check in at FAO’s Climate Change blog for regular updates from Durban.
We can already see that we have not a long wait to come face to face with what happens where the straight superhighway we have been traveling with effortless ease becomes a narrow, curved cliffside passage; for we are the ones who are alive in a pivotal moment in human history, when economic and ecologic systems fail, a global empire (like a house of cards) collapses and self-proclaimed masters of the universe (who are primarily responsible for the colossal catastrophe looming before humanity) take off in private jets and yachts for secret hideaways in faraway places….come what may.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
Chapel Hill, NC
http://www.panearth.org/