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"Let's put Soil Health higher on the international agenda & Act together now!"

Agenda (tentative, last update 2023.11.27)

9:00 to 14:00 (UAE time): 8th FORUM Meeting

Chair of the 7th Day of the international "4 per 1000" Initiative: Ms. Gabrielle Bastien, Vice-President of the international "4 per 1000" Initiative, Founder of Regeneration Canada.

Chair of the Forum: Mr. Stéphane Le Foll, President of the international "4 per 1000" Initiative, former French Minister of Agriculture [2012-2017], current Mayor of Le Mans city (France)

[9:00 to 12:30 (UAE time): Opening of the Forum with a High-Level Segment

• Welcome speech by Mr. Stéphane Le Foll (5 minutes), video
• WeIcome address by Ms. Gabrielle Bastien (5 minutes), on site
  
• Inaugural session - Welcome address through speeches from Officials (20 minutes)
  • Mr. Nicolas Niemtchninow, French Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of the United Arab Emirates, representing the French Minister of Agriculture locally on site
    

  • Mr. Marc Fesneau, Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty of the French Republic, video

  • Mr. Luis Planas Puchades, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Kingdom of Spain, video

  • Mr. Cem Özdemir, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture of Germany, tbc

• Inspirational presentation by Mr. John D. Liu, Ambassador of the CommonLand Foundation, a global movement to restore degraded ecosystems, based in Amsterdam (NL) (30 minutes), on site
  
• VIP speeches (3 minutes per Speaker). 
  • Honourable Murray Watt, Minister for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Minister for Emergency Management in Australia, video

Due to time constraints, the floor will be only given this year to Speakers on site or speaking on Zoom - Videos received will be added to the final registered version of the Forum of Partners, on the "4 per 1000" YouTube channel. (Names, Organisations, Countries) 

Not the final ranking: ALPHABETICAL ORDER for NAMES right now

• 1. Ms. Goulnara Aguiar, CEO, ORMEX (France) on site
  2. Ms. Stefania Avanzini, Head of OP2B [One Planet Business for Biodiversity], hosted by WBCSD [World Business Council for Sustainable Development] (Switzerland), zoom
  3. Ms. Adrienne de Malleray, Co-Founder & Director of Public Affairs, Genesis (France) on site

  4. Mr. Thierry Dupeuble, Director, CIHEAM [Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes / International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies] (France), zoom

  5. Dr Martin Frick, Director, WFP [United Nations World Food Programme], Global Office based in Berlin (Germany), on site

  6. Dr Shaikh Tanveer Hossain, Asia Director of Policy & Strategy and Director of South Asia Office, IFOAM-Organics [International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements], based in Bangladesh, on site

  7. Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim, Director General, CATIE [Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center] (Costa Rica)

  8. Mr. Seth Itzkan, Co-Director and co-Founder of Soil4Climate (USA), on site

  9. Mr. Bharat Kakade, President and Managing Trustee, BAIF Development Research Foundation (India), zoom

  10. Mr. Alain Billand, Director of Science Impact & Marketing, CIRAD [French Agricultural Research and Cooperation Organization] (France) on site

  11. Dr Cargele Nduwamungu Masso, Director, Environment Health & Biodiversity Impact Area, CGIAR System Organization, (International Organisation based in Montpellier, France), on site

  12. Mr. Luca Montanarella, Senior Expert Directorate D – Sustainable Resources, Land Resources and Supply Chain Assessments Unit, JRC [Joint Research Centre], European Commission, (based in Italy), zoom

  13. Dr Swati Nayak (she), Scientist and South Asia Lead for Seed System and Product Management, 2023 winner of the Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application (given by The World Food Prize), IRRI [International Rice Research Institute] (The Philippines), on site

  14. Dr Ananya S Rao (she), Senior Scientist, Forests by Heartfulness, Heartfulness Institute & UNESCO MGIEP [Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development], (India), on site

  15. Mr. Gérard Rass, Farmer & former General Secretary of APAD network in France [Association pour la Promotion d'une Agriculture Durable / Association for the Promotion of a Sustainable Agriculture] / ACS network (France), zoom

  16. Dr Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Director General, the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT [International Center for Tropical Agriculture] (International Organization based in Rome, Italy) zoom

  17. Mr. Sébastien Roumegous, CEO, or Mr. Franck Boissinot, Director General, Biosphères (France), tbc

  18. Mr. Marcelo Torres, President, Aapresid internacional [The Argentine No-Till Farmers Association] (Argentina) on site

  19. Mr. Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director, IDDRI [Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales / Institute for Sustainable Development and International relations] (France)

  20. Mr. Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Global Director for Agriculture and Food, the World Bank (USA) zoom
  21. Ms. Valérie Verdier, CEO, IRD [Institut de Recherche pour le Développement / Research Institute for Development] (France) zoom
  22. EIT Food
  23. FAO

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  25. to be continued
• Received and Acknowledged Videos 2023:

Not the final ranking: ALPHABETICAL ORDER for NAMES

• 1. Mr. François Mandin, Farmer & President of APAD network in France [Association pour la Promotion d'une Agriculture Durable / Association for the Promotion of a Sustainable Agriculture] / ACS network (France)
  2. Ms. Catherine Migault, Director General, FARM Foundation (France)
  3. Mr. Bram Govaerts, Director General, CIMMYT (Mexico)
  4. Hualien County Government
  5. to be continued
• The floor is open to the various colleges of the Forum to express their views on how to reach the objective of "Let's put Soil Health higher on the international agenda & Act together now" (35 minutes)

  • Session 1: Impact Measurement Tools for the agroecological transition: Importance of the MRV tools (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) for implementation in the field at all levels, and Q & A (15 minutes)
    

    • Deloitte Sustainability (France): Ms. Marine Pochat, Director and Ms. Aliette Lefranc, Consultant, zoom

  • Session 2: Action at the regional level - Results of the three "4 per 1000" Regional Conferences in 2023 (20 minutes)
    

    • Western Africa Regional Meeting co-organized with Cirad, Abidjan, (Côte d'Ivoire), May 2023: Conference summary presented by Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD (France) on site
      
    • Northern Europe Regional Meeting, co-organized with BSAG (Baltic Sea Action Group), Helsinki (Finland), June 2023: Conference summary presented by Hanna Höijer, Representative of the Youth (Finland), on-site
      
    • Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting, co-organized with the Heartfulness Institute, Kahna-Hyderabad (India), Sept. 2023: Conference summary presented by Dr Ananya S Rao (she), Senior Scientist, Forests by Heartfulness, Heartfulness Institute (India), on site
      
  • Session 3: Updates from Sciences (25 minutes)
    • The role of soils in resilience to climate extremes and climate change for food and water security (Beata Emoke Madari, STC) tbc
    • Controversials in soil sciences: Highlights from the first three editions of the newly introduced Soil Carbon Sciences Webinars Series (Budiman Minasny, STC) tbc
    • The Soil Carbon International Research Consortium (IRC) (Jean-Francois Soussana, INRAE), tbc
  • Open discussion the floor is open to the various "4 per 1000" Stakeholder Groups (Collèges) of the Forum to express their views (Countries and International Organizations, Farmer Organizations, NGOs, Scientific Institutions, Businesses) (15 minutes)

[12:30 to 14:00 UAE time] Partners’ Forum Meeting

• Adoption of the Agenda – Ms. Gabrielle Bastien (2 minutes)
• Approval of the Forum Report No. 7 (Sharm El-Sheikh, 16 November 2022) – Ms. Gabrielle Bastien (3 minutes)
• The 2022-2023 "4 per 1000" Annual Activity Report – Dr Paul Luu, "4 per 1000" Executive Secretary (10 minutes) 
• The 2022-2023 "4 per 1000" STC (Scientific and Technical Committee) Activity Report and the STC 2023 Activity Report – Dr Beverley Henry, Co-Chair of the "4 per 1000" STC (10 minutes)
• The "4 per 1000" Implementation Plan - Situation in 2023 (45 minutes) – The «4 per 1000» Executive Secretariat
  • Dashboard draft – Dr Paul Luu, "4 per 1000" Executive Secretary (5 minutes)

  • Situation of the Task Forces work to implement the "4 per 1000" Strategic Plan 2050 – Dr Claudia Schepp / Mr. Marc Bernard / Mr. Anirudh Keny (15 minutes)

• Comments and discussion (30 minutes)
  
• Conclusion of the Forum – Ms. Gabrielle Bastien (5 minutes)

Please note that the entire program of the 2023 Edition of the "4 per 1000" Day will be only hold in English and that there will be no simultaneous translation.