Workshop on Organic Agriculture and Climate Changes
Wednesday, June 18th
11.15 - 18.00 pm

The workshop is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation – FAO

Coordinator
: Nadia El-Hage Scialabba
Location: Auditorium Fondazione Biagi (AMB)
Language: English
Simultaneous translation available: Italian

Facilitator: Gerald Hermann, IFOAM

Opening Session
 11.15 am
Climate Change, Bioenergy and Food Security (Alexander Mueller [pdf 16KB], Assistant Director-General, FAO)
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
 11.30 - 11.45 am Impact of the Food Production and Consumption on Climate Change (Claude Aubert [pdf 13KB] , ENITA-Clermont, France)
 11.45 - 12.00 am Carbon Sequestration in Organic maize/soybean cropping systems
(Paul Hepperly [pdf 15KB] , Rodale Institute, USA)
 12.15 - 12.30 pm Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security
(Vandana Shiva [pdf 15KB] , International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, India)
 12.30 - 13.00 pm Discussion
 
       Lunch Break and Poster Session (see below the poster list)

Energy Use and Bioenergy
 14.30 - 14.45 pm The Comparative Energy Efficiency of Organic Farming
(Gudula Azeez [pdf 15KB], Soil Association, UK)
 14.45 - 15.00 pm Assessing the Carbon Balance on Organic Farms (Jean-Michel Florin, Biodynamic Mouvement, France)
 15.00 - 15.15 pm Organic Agriculture and the Production of Biomass for Energy Use (Adrian Muller [pdf 16KB], University of Zurich, Switzerland)
 15.15 - 15.30 pm Convergence of Prairie Restoration with Biofuel Production (Bruno Borsari [pdf 14KB], Winona State University, USA)
 15.30 - 16.00 pm Discussion
 
                                Coffee break

Carbon in Organic Certification
 16.30 - 16.45 pm Climate Change, Carbon Offsets and Certified Organic Forestry
(J. Paull [pdf 16KB], University of Tasmania, Australia)
 16.45 - 17.00 pm Climate Certification with a Processing and Production Type Standard Approach (Johan Cejie [pdf 15KB], KRAV, Sweden)
 17.00 - 17.15 pm Carbon Credits for Sustainable Composting and Greenhouse Gas Emission  reduction (Tobias Bandel [pdf 15KB] , Soil&More International, Netherlands)
 17.15 - 17.30 pm foodSTEP: Sustainable Transport for Ecological Products (C. Hertel & A. Pauler, University of Technology, Germany)
 17.30 - 17.50 pm Discussion
Closing Session
 17.50 - 18.00 pm Messages to Take Home, Nadia Scialabba, Senior Officer, FAO
Poster Session
 1. Impact of different Agricultural Systems and Nutrition Patterns on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions (Freyer [pdf 14KB] , B. University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria)

2. Soil Fertility management and compost use in Senegal's Peanut Basin (N.C. McClintock and A. M. Diop [pdf 13KB] The Rodale Institute, USA)

3. Co-variation of Soil Mycorrhizae Fungal  Spores, Soil Carbon Content, Soil Aggregation and Stability, and Glomalin Glycoprotein Content (D. Douds Jr, P. Hepperly [pdf 15KB] , K. Nichols and R. Seidel, The Rodale Institute, USA)

4. Can Organic Amendment Contribute to Carbon Sequestration? A Survey in a Pear Orchard in Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy
(C. Ciavatta [pdf 14KB] , P.Gioacchini, & D. Montecchio, Univiersiy of Bologna, Italy)

5. Should we air freight organic food?
(K. Hayes Soil Association, UK)

6. Organic Food, Fibre and Fuel
(S.G. Ratter[pdf 14KB] , Remei AG, Switzerland)

7. The interdependence of a controlled composting process and the turnaround of the climate change
(Angelika Lübke [pdf 14KB] -Hildebrandt  MSc, Austria)

8. Visions for organic bioenergy production in Denmark (Tommy Dalgaard, Uffe Jørgensen, and Inge T Kristensen, Research Centre Foulum, Denmark)

9. Energetic and Economic Comparison of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems (David Pimentel [pdf 10KB] , Cornell University, USA)

10. Comparison of carbon stock and biological soil quality in organic and conventional agriculture within Ombrone plain. (C. Gardi, C. Menta, F. Pesci, M. Locatelli [pdf 15KB] , University of Parma, Italy)

11. Developing Energy Plants for Biofuels Production may Comply to Organic Principles (O. M. Akinyemi [pdf 10KB] & H.  Høgh-Jensen,  University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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