PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

DAY 1: Monday, 13 May 2013

9.30 - 11.30 High-level opening session

Jose Graziano da Silva Director General, FAO

David Nabarro Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Food Security and Nutrition

Gabriel Tchango Minister of Water and Forests, Gabon

Mirna Cunningham Outgoing Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous People, Nicaragua

Braulio De Souza Dias Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Vladimir Albertovich Lebedev, Head of the Federal Forestry Agency of Russia

Launch of new publication on Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security

11.30 - 12.30 Theme 1: The benefits of forests, trees on farms and agroforestry systems for food security and nutrition

Presentation of video highlighting the contribution of forests and trees on farm to food security and nutrition

Keynote presentation Tony Simons, Director General, World Agroforestry Centre – ICRAF

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - Parallel session 1: The direct provision of Parallel session 2: Forests as a source of 15.30 food (Green Room) income for food security (Red Room)

Introductory presentation: Managing Introductory presentation: Incomes from forests for food Eduardo Brondizio, forests and trees to secure food and Professor and former Chair of the nutrition Felician Kilahama, Chair of the Anthropology Department, Indiana FAO Committee on Forestry – COFO University Panel: Panel: 1. Employment creation in the forest 1. Forest wildlife Ali Kaka, Regional sector Joaquim Bento de Souza Director for Eastern & Southern Ferreira Filho, Professor at Department Africa, International Union for of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, Conservation of Nature – Brazil IUCN 2. The role of small and medium forest 2. Food and nutrition security from enterprises in dryland forest trees on farms Ludovic Conditamde, ecosystems Zoubida Charrouf, Director of Operations, Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, Tree Aid Mohammed V-University, Morocco 3. Improving incomes through 3. Edible insects Yupa Hanboonsong, agroforestry Bernard Giraud, Associate Professor, Faculty of President, Livelihoods Fund, France Entomology, Khon Kaen University, 4. Improving incomes from payments for Thailand ecosystem services Ronnie de Camino Velozo, Director of CATIE, the Latin 4. Forests in the provision of food to American Chair of Forest Landscapes mountain communities Andrew Management Taber, Executive Director, The Mountain Institute Facilitated discussion

Facilitated discussion

15.30 - Parallel session 3: The role of forests and Parallel session 4: The role of ecosystem 17.00 trees in sustainable diets (Green Room) services (Red Room)

Introductory presentation: The role of Introductory presentation: Increasing forests and trees on farms in sustainable food security and nutrition through diets Patrick Van Damme, Tropical ecosystem services Peter Holmgren, Agriculture and Ethnobotany, Ghent Director General, Center for International University Forestry Research – CIFOR

Panel: Panel: 1. Indigenous peoples’ food systems 1. Tree biodiversity in agricultural Barbara Burlingame, Principal landscapes Oscar Eyog Matig, Member Nutrition Officer, FAO of the Governing Council, African Forest Forum 2. The contribution of tree products to micronutrient intakes and healthy 2. Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate diets Katja Kehlenbeck, Associate change for food security and resilience Scientist and Researcher, Tree El Hadj Adama Toure, Senior Diversity, Domestication and Delivery, Agricultural Economist, World Bank, ICRAF Ivory Coast

3. The contribution of forest foods to 3. Case study on watershed management diets Patricia Shanley, Programme Raul Cordova, Watershed Management Director, People and Plants Expert, Ecuador International 4. The importance of mangroves to 4. The contribution of wood energy to fisheries Jurgenne Primavera, Co-Chair sustainable diets Wouter Maes, of IUCN Mangrove Specialist Group, the Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory Philippines of Plant Ecology, Ghent University

Facilitated discussion Facilitated discussion

18.00 Official reception

DAY 2: Tuesday, 14 May 2013

9.00 - 9.45 Plenary (Green Room)

Moderator’s summary of the main issues and outcomes of Day 1 Theme 2: Key challenges and bottlenecks Keynote presentation: Global challenges for forests, food security and nutrition Henri Djombo, Minister for Forest Economy and Sustainable Development, Republic of Congo

10.00 - 12.00 Parallel session 5: Access rights to Parallel session 6: Policy and resources, and competing land uses Institutional Challenges (Red Room) (Green Room)

Introductory presentation: Introductory presentation: Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Sundaram Jomo, Assistant Director Economics and Environment, University General, Economic and Social of Manchester Development Department, FAO

Panel: Panel: 1. Insecure tenure and rights of indigenous people to resources 1. Data challenges from an Samuel Nguiffo, Director and international perspective Peter Founder, The Centre for Dewees, Forest Adviser, World Bank Environment and Development, Cameroon 2. Data challenges at national level Lizzie Chikoti, Assistant 2. The impacts of large-scale Commissioner, National Statistical agricultural investments and land Office, Malawi grabs Sue Mbaya, Independent Consultant, SM & Associates, South 3. Role of forestry administrations Africa Thomas Tidwell, Chief, US Forest

3. The impacts of urbanization on Service forest and tree resources, including bushmeat Fabio Salbitano, Professor 4. Inadequate provision for micro- of Forest and Landscape Ecology, finance to rural enterprises Paulo de University of Florence, Italy León, Researcher and Consultant on Forest Financing, Central American 4. The impacts of disasters, crises and Business Intelligence, Guatemala conflicts on food security Javier Escobedo, Agriculture and Disaster Management Expert, FAO, 5. The involvement of forestry sector in Dominican Republic national food security strategies 5. The impacts of climate change on Jean Claude Rabemanantsoa, food security across agricultural and Director General of Forests, forest land Tiina Vähänen, Team Madagascar Leader, Climate Change Coordination and REDD+, FAO Facilitated discussion Facilitated discussion

12.00 - 14.00 Lunch

Theme 3: Policy options, practical innovations and emerging opportunities

14.00 - 15.30 Parallel session 7: Best practices in Parallel session 8: Innovative policies resource management (Green Room) and institutional practices (Red Room)

Panel: Panel 1. Potential of REDD+ for increasing food 1. Rural institutions in practice security Gustavo Sánchez Valle, Nicole Leotaud, Executive Director, Head of the Executive Council, Mexican Caribbean Natural Resources Network of Farmers and Forests Institute – CANARI Organizations 2. National benefit-sharing 2. Local knowledge in restoration of strategies: how they can degraded agro-sylvo-pastoral systems: contribute to food security Diji the case of the Acacia Operation Chandrasekharan Behr, Natural Project Ben Chikamai, Director, Kenya Resource Economist, World Bank Forestry Research Institute – KEFRI 3. Mainstreaming gender in food 3. Managing landscapes for food security security policies Alice Kaudia, and livelihood improvement Christine Environment Secretary, Ministry of Padoch, Director, Forests and Environment and Mineral Resources, Kenya Livelihoods Programme, CIFOR

4. The non-wood forest products

4. The Great Green Wall for the Sahara toolbox Nchoutpouen Chouaïbou, and the Initiative ( Biodiversity Expert, Central African Commission): an example of south- Forest Commission – COMIFAC south cooperation and integrated approaches François Tapsoba, Chief

Technical Advisor, African Union Commission, Facilitated discussion

Facilitated discussion

15.30 - 18.30 Side events

DAY 3: Wednesday, 15 May 2013

9.00 - 09.45 Plenary (Green Room)

Moderator’s summary of the main issues and outcomes of Day 2

Theme 3 (cont.) Keynote Presentation: Policy options, innovative approaches and emerging opportunities for strengthening the role of forests, trees on farms and agroforestry systems for food security and nutrition Cyriaque Sendashonga, Global Director, Policy and Programme Group, International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN

10.00 - 12.00 Session 9: Policy and legal options (Green Room)

Panel: 1. The voluntary guidelines on governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests Chelur Ravindranathan Bijoy, Activist and Independent Researcher on Land & Resource Rights, India

2. Integrated land-use planning and intersectoral coordination René Boot, Director, Tropenbos International

3. International policy and governance frameworks Peter Gondo, Member of the Governing Council, African Forest Forum (AFF)

4. Gender equality in forest policies Renate Späth, Forest Officer, at the Ministry for Environment of Northrhine-We´stphalia, Germany,

5. The right to food in the context of national food security Asbjørn Eide, Senior Fellow, Norwegian Centre of Human Rights

Facilitated discussion

12.00 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15:00 Poster session

15.00 - 17.00 Plenary: Presentation of conference statement and general comments

Closing Session: Eduardo Rojas Briales Assistant Director General, Forestry Department, FAO

Yaya Olaniran Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

Jan McAlpine Director, United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF)