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 Agriculture directly and indirectly accounts for nearly 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is among the sectors most vulnerable to climate change. With the global population forecast to rise to 9 billion by 2050, we need to produce enough food to feed and nourish this growing population, and do so with fewer resources and in the face of increasingly erratic weather patterns caused by climate change.
Agroforestry – integrating trees into agricultural landscapes – is an important way of making agriculture more sustainable and productive by increasing food security and nutrition, reducing climate risks and storing carbon to mitigate climate change. Agroforestry is being practiced successfully in smallholder farming settings and in intensive, mechanized agricultural systems. Agriculture with trees:

• Enhances and diversifies income for sustainable agricultural production through products essential for livelihoods and human well-being, including fruits, nuts, leaves, oils, fodder, fuel and timber;
• Provides important environmental services related to soil fertility, erosion prevention, watersheds protection and biodiversity;
• Mitigates climate change by storing carbon;
• Improves resilience to climate risks;
• Restores degraded lands; and
• Reduces deforestation and forest degradation.

Agroforestry is instrumental to achieving Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) in the land sector because of its mitigation potential and possibilities to reduce climate-related risks. More...

Program of World Agroforestry Centre at COP 22
Date	Event	Venue
Monday 7 November 16:10-17:30	Putting People at the Center of Development - Climate Friendly, Forest Based Livelihood (details)	Indonesian Pavilion
Tuesday 8 November 09:00 – 10:30	Multi-stakeholders Participatory Approach: Evidence from forest based landscape (details)	Indonesian Pavilion
Friday 11 November 12.00- 13:30	Innovation and deployment of technologies for climate change adaptation with support from the Climate Technology Centre and Network. (details) Event organized by ICRAF with the Technical University of Denmark, DTU	Africa Pavilion Salle 2
Monday 14  Friday 18 November	Exhibition booth
Monday 14 November	Resilient Landscapes in Africa’s Drylands: seizing opportunities and deepening commitments. Event organized by Africa Union and the World Bank	Africa Pavilion Salle 1
Monday 14 November	Launch of the new "Sustainable Oases Initiative" (SOI) by the Ministry of Agriculture of Morocco
Tuesday 15 November 16:45-18:15	Woody Biomass Energy to Meet NDCs and SDGs in Developing Countries. Side event organized by INBAR and ICRAF (details).	Pacific
Tuesday 15 November	Conference on Sustainable Mining organized by OCP
Wednesday 16 November 16:00-18:00	More impactful public-private partnerships for African Agriculture (details). Event hosted by the Initiative for the Adaptation of African Agriculture (AAA), Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Morocco and The Livelihoods Funds.	African Pavilion
Thursday 17 November 10:00-11:30	Towards Building a Convening Platform for Various Landscapes Initiatives in Africa(details)	Africa Pavilion Hall, Conference room 2
Thursday 17 November 13:00-14:30	4 per 1000 International Research Program Scientific Side event	Marrakech, Green zone
Thursday 17 November 14:15-15:45	Nordic Council of Ministers roundtable on agriculture and climate change initiatives (details). Event organized by the Nordic Council.	New Nordic Climate Solutions Pavilion

Program of World Agroforestry Centre at the Global Landscape Forum (GLF)
Date	Event	Venue
Wednesday 16 November 11:00-12:30	From commitment to action – developing strategies to operationalize integrated landscape approaches (details). Side event hosted by ICRAF and CIFOR	Kenzi Club Agdal Medina, Marrakesh