FAO Media Advisory - www.fao.org [cid:image003.gif@01D11649.2E61A570] Ensuring sustainable food and agriculture amid climate change FAO Committee on Agriculture, 26-30 September 2016, Rome, Italy Making agricultural production more sustainable in the face of climate change while achieving food and nutrition security for all will be a top theme at the biannual meeting of FAO's Committee on Agriculture<http://www.fao.org/coag/about-coag/en/> taking place on 26-30 September at the Organization's Rome headquarters. Senior representatives from government, the private sector and civil society will discuss challenges, share solutions and seek to build partnerships during the event, which will be held under the theme: Pathways to Sustainable Food and Agriculture. A major topic is ensuring that actions to promote agriculture and livestock management are in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development<https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld> and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals<http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/>. In particular, the Committee, which meets every two years, will provide inputs for the formulation of the FAO Corporate Climate Change Strategy. It will also examine FAO's role in the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock<http://www.livestockdialogue.org/events/events/multi-stakeholder-meetings/panama-20-23-june-2016/en/>, an initiative that recognizes the importance of this sector in food and nutrition security, poverty reduction, health and greenhouse gas emissions. FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva will open the meeting on 26 September. Professor Joachim von Braun, the Director of the University of Bonn's Center for Development Research<http://www.zef.de/index.php?id=zefhome>, will deliver the keynote speech. Ministers from several countries, including Bolivia, Cape Verde, Slovenia and Sri Lanka, are also scheduled to participate. Several of the meeting's priority themes will be the subject of dedicated side-events<http://www.fao.org/coag/side-events/en/>. Topics include supporting developing countries to apply genome sequencing in ways that benefit food safety, animal, plant and public health and help to reduce disease outbreaks while improving agriculture through effective plant and animal breeding. The media are welcome to attend the five-day session. Please note that the opening on Monday, the afternoon session on agricultural innovation on Wednesday and several side events<http://www.fao.org/coag/side-events/en/>, will be webcast<http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4187/icode/>. RESOURCES FOR THE MEDIA FAO Committee on Agriculture (COAG)<http://www.fao.org/coag/about-coag/en/> 25th COAG Session website<http://www.fao.org/coag/en/> Agenda: Plenary and side events<http://www.fao.org/coag/timetable/en/> Session documents<http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/coag/coag-25/list-of-documents/en/> FOLLOW ON TWITTER #COAG25, @FAONews, @FAOKnowledge ACCREDITATION: Advance-accreditation 24 hours prior to the event is required. Send scans of a valid press card or letter of assignment on company stationery, plus a valid identification document with photo, to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. You must have these materials with you on the day of the event in order to access FAO. FOR MORE INFORMATION Tel. (+39) 06 570 53625 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Journalists & editors: For photos, audio clips, video material & b-roll, contact: (+39) 06 570 53625 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Online tools: Photos via the FAOnews Flickr account<http://www.flickr.com/photos/faonews> FAO's online newsroom<http://www.fao.org/news/newsroom-home/en/> RSS feed<http://www.fao.org/news/rss-feed/en/> of FAO news releases @FAOnews on Twitter<https://twitter.com/faonews/> This media advisory was issued by the Media Office at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). To unsubscribe from this news service click the link below or send an email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with "signoff Media-G-Eng-L" as the only text in the message body. You can also manage your subscription online, here<https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa>. FAO | Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy | (+39) 06 570 53625 | www.fao.org<http://www.fao.org> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the Media-G-Eng-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(Media-G-Eng-L,SIGNOFF);