Welcome Remarks

• Joachim Voss, Alliance Executive Chair
• Katherine Sierra, Chair of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

"CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE: Promising Research and Policy Responses – a Perspective from the International Climate Change Community"

Martin Parry and Cynthia Rozenzweig,* Co-Chair Working Group II (Impacts and Adaptation)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2002/020423b.htm

and GISS NASA

"CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE in the TROPICS and SUB-TROPICS: People at Risk and Promising Research and Policy Responses"

Robert Zeigler, Director General, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Panel Discussion

William Makundi* , Martin Parry, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Robert Zeigler
*Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Support
International Energy Studies

http://ies.lbl.gov/iesproj/proipcc.html

Flex-time: Discussions between Centers and Members, at Center, Challenge Program and partner booths in the Exhibit Hall

Coffee Break served in the Exhibit Hall

12:30-2:00

Parallel Lunch Sessions

• Oasis: System-wide Program to Combat Desertification. (Hemisphere Room)
• High Value Crops: Research, Policies and Programs to help the Poor. (Military Room)
• Collective Action to Sustain Biodiversity for Current and Future Generations. (Georgetown West Room)
• Biofuels: Current CGIAR Research and Future Collaborations. (Georgetown East Room)
• Responding to the Avian Influenza Emergency: the Role of the CGIAR. (Thoroughbred Room)
• Presentation of the new European Union Strategy for ARD: Presentations from EC, DFID, Switzerland, Belgium. (Jefferson East Room)

Flex-time: Discussions between Centers and Members, at the Information Booths of Centers, Challenge Programs, and Partners in the Exhibit Hall

Coffee Break served in the Exhibit Hall

Parallel Meetings with Groups of Centers and Members on thematic issues: 

• Making Markets and Institutions Work for the Poor (Military Room)
• Tree Commodity Value Chains (Hemisphere Room)
• Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agriculture Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus(Georgetown East Room)
• Women in Agricultural Science. (Lincoln Room)
• Multi-Center Initiatives in Distance Education (Georgetown West Room)