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Partecipazione del Direttore Generale al Side Event Italia - FAO
“Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Waste”
Marrakech, 16 novembre 2016
CoP 22 UNFCCC, ore 10:30 – 13:00
L’evento è organizzato congiuntamente tra MATTM e FAO, con la collaborazione dell’Istituto di
Bari del CIHEAM (come proposto dall’Ambasciatore Sacco), in attuazione dell’accordo tra il DG
della FAO Graziano Da Silva e il Ministro Galletti lo scorso 21 giugno 2016.
Obiettivo del Side Event è discutere l’approccio della Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) ed il potenziale
dei sistemi agricoli per supportare lo sviluppo ed assicurare la sicurezza alimentare in un regime di
cambiamenti climatici. Il side event nasce alla luce della collaborazione tra Italia e FAO per promuovere
la CSA e le buone pratiche esistenti in materia a livello internazionale e nazionale. Tra le azioni
concrete, si inserisce anche un’analisi delle “policies” esistenti per limitare gli sprechi alimentari a partire
dal contributo della nuova Legge Nazionale Italiana (L. 166/2016).
L’apertura dei lavori è affidata a Te mentre il Vice Direttore Generale della FAO Maria Helena
Semedo svolgerà l’intervento di chiusura dei lavori.
All’incontro parteciperanno oltre alla FAO:
- la Dott.ssa Romito, dirigente del MIPAAF, con un intervento di presentazione della nuova
Legge Nazionale per la lotta agli sprechi alimentari;
- il dott. Cosimo Lacirignola, Segretario Generale del Centro Internazionale di Alti Studi
Agronomici del Mediterraneo (CIHEAM), con un intervento sugli impatti e le soluzioni per
l’adattamento dell’agricoltura del bacino del Mediterraneo ai cambiamenti climatici;
- il Prof. Mohammed sadiki, Segretario Generale del Ministero dell’Agricoltura e della Pesca del
Marocco, con un intervento che introdurrà la gestione degli eventi di siccità in Marocco a partire
dalle recenti esperienze affrontate dal Paese nel 2016.
Si allegano “elementi per i saluti di benvenuto del Direttore Generale” e l’agenda dei
lavori.
Breve introduzione
Da marzo 2014 il MATTM ha in essere con la FAO il MOU IACSA (International
Alliance for Climate Smart Agricolture) con il quale sostiene il funzionamento della
GACSA (Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agricolture) e la promozione della Climate
Smart Agriculture.
La Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) è un approccio promosso dalla FAO a partire dal
2010 per creare condizioni tecniche, politiche ed investimenti per uno sviluppo agricolo
sostenibile che faccia fronte ai problemi connessi ai cambiamenti climatici e garantisca al
contempo sicurezza alimentare. In una CSA è fondamentale un approccio integrato alle
tre dimensioni dello sviluppo sostenibile (economica, sociale e ambientale) che risponda
e si adatti alle condizioni locali e che preveda un coordinamento tra i settori strettamente
connessi all’agricoltura (allevamento, pratiche agricole e forestali, pesca) e ai settori
energia e acqua, al fine di potenziare sinergie e ottimizzare l’uso delle risorse naturali e la
conservazione degli ecosistemi.
Il MATTM ha collaborato con la FAO anche nell’ambito della COP 22 di Marrakech. La
FAO ha infatti richiesto la nostra collaborazione per contribuire all’organizzazione degli
"Action Day" che avranno luogo alla COP22 di Marrakech sui temi di agricoltura,
resilienza e foreste per i quali il Marocco ha già affidato alla FAO la leadership ufficiale
dell’organizzazione.
Durante il giorno dell’Action Day sull’Agricoltura (16 novembre), sulla base di
quanto concordato dal Ministro dell’Ambiente e dal Direttore Generale della
FAO a giugno scorso, è stato organizzato un side event di alto livello Italia-FAO
incentrato sul tema “Climate Smart Agricolture and Food Waste”. Da parte
italiana, il seminario sarà realizzato dal Ministero dell’Ambiente, in collaborazione con il
Ministero delle Politiche agricole alimentari e forestali e con l’Istituto Agronomico
Mediterraneo di Bari (CIHEAM).
Inoltre, su richiesta della FAO, per il periodo settembre-dicembre 2016, il Ministero
dell’Ambiente sta sostenendo l’ufficio FAO di Rabat con l’assegnazione di due esperti
italiani distaccati (selezionati dalla stessa FAO) che stanno lavorando all’organizzazione
degli action day e dei side event previsti della COP22.
Side event “Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Waste”
Marrakech, 16 novembre 2016, Padiglione Italia alla Cop 22 di Marrakech – Ore 10:30 – 13:00
Speaking Points del Direttore Generale
Dott. Francesco La Camera
 I am pleased to welcome you all here at the Italian Pavillion and to open the
works of this side event on “Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Waste”
which has been jointly promoted by the FAO and the Italian Ministry for
the Environment;
 under the auspices of the Director General of the FAO Mr. Graziano da
Silva and the Italian Minister for the Environment Mr. Galletti, today we
wish to focus on one of the major challenge that we will be facing in our
future, which is the need to ensure sufficient food and healthy dietary needs
to a growing population, in light of changing climate regimes that have the
potential to pose many challenges to the agricultural sectors. At the same
time, the agriculture and forestry sectors show a significant potential to
bring about adaptation and mitigation co-benefits to climate change, and
the alignment of efforts among all national and international institutions, civil
society and the business will be required to channel the needed resources and
investments in the right direction;
 I am glad then to be here with Ms. Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy DirectorGeneral at the FAO, with whom we are cooperating since 2014 on the approach
of Climate Smart Agriculture that has been launched by the FAO with quite a
remarkable success. I am also glad to have here Professor Sadiki, Secretary
General at the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Fisheries of the
Kingdom of Morocco, host Country of the CoP22, who will give us concrete
examples of how climate change and extreme events are already affecting
agricultural systems nowadays. Finally, let me welcome Mr. Lacirignola from
the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies
and Ms. Graziella Romito from the Italian Ministry for Agriculture;
 the eradication of hunger by 2030 is key among the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals adopted last year by the UN General Assembly. We
cannot conceive progress and pursue sustainable development without eliminating
hunger;
 nearly 80% of the world’s poor live in rural areas, and the majority of them relies
on agriculture to survive. However, climate change is posing a serious threat to
the capacity of these populations to earn a living from agriculture, forestry and
fisheries. The FAO estimates that the agricultural production is to rise until up to
60% of the current levels by 2050 in light of the world’s population projections to
date. However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is
warning us that decreasing crop yields are already a reality in some areas of the
world and that decreases of 10 to 25% may be widespread in 2050;
 however, we may already start consuming more efficiently. From the
FAO’s data, one third of the food produced worldwide is either lost or
wasted, and this generates about 8% of the total GHG emissions per year;
 we therefore need to undertake development pathways that can simultaneously
contribute to reduce GHG emissions in the agriculture sectors while avoiding
deforestation and promote medium and long term investments to strengthen the
resilience of agricultural systems and forests to climate change ensuring the
required productivity gains;
 these objectives are often well addressed in many Countries’ NDCs. The
mitigation potential of agriculture and LULUCF is prominently
acknowledged in all regions and at all levels of socio-economic
development. Developing countries in particular put a strong emphasis on the
agriculture sectors, with about 92% of Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and 70%
in Northern Africa and West Asia referring to these sectors under their mitigation
contributions;
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furthermore, out of the 130 Countries that included adaptation measures in
their NDCs, agriculture is the utmost priority, with the 95% of these
Countries referring to adaptation measures in the agricultural sectors ranging from
100% in Sub-Saharan African and Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, to 79% in
Oceania;
 in particular, Countries highlight the vulnerability of the agriculture sectors
to climate change and most LDCs highlight extreme events as their central
adaptation challenge. Just think that 100% of LDCs and 90% of other
developing countries address vulnerability, the majority pointing to extreme
events (i.e. droughts, floods) as a foremost threat to the environment and
socioeconomic development;
 today here in Marrakech we are also having the Agriculture Action Day
which is being led by the FAO and to which organization also Italy
contributed through supporting the FAO staff here in Morocco. This side
event is a part of this contribution, as Italy is ready and willing to assist
with its expertise and know how the implementation of NDCs particularly
in developing Countries by means of bilateral and multilateral cooperation
activities. At the basis of Italy’s commitment, we share the idea which is
most often referred to in the NDCs that the agriculture sectors are a vector
to provide adaptation-mitigation synergies, as well as socio-economic and
environmental co-benefits;
 from Paris to Marrakech, the Italian Ministry of Environment signed
numerous cooperation agreements especially with those Countries that are
most vulnerable to climate change impacts and some of which also referred
to Climate Smart Agriculture as contributing to both adaptation and
mitigation;
 Italy shares for example some of the concrete actions highlighted by the FAO in
its climate change strategy, such as the promotion of positive cycles through
agroforestry, the need to address livestock development, the promotion of the
role of genetic diversity in mitigation and adaptation to the consequences of
climate change, and the need to saving food and avoiding waste;
 in the future, it will be thus key to channel appropriate financing and to mobilize
investments to support concrete actions on the ground on a country-based
approach. In a context of decreasing ODA, climate finance will have to play a key
role to pool resources where often local communities, poor smallholder farmers
and LDCs cannot bear the brunt of such long-term investments;
 few days ago the Italian Pavillion also hosted a side event of the Global Alliance
for Climate Smart Agriculture dedicated to the perspectives of scaling up
investments towards agriculture and CSA, that are often not yet duly considered
in the mainstream portfolios of climate finance projects;
 I look forward then for a fruitful discussion today and I leave the floor to the
other speakers, who will certainly bring food for thought and technical
contributions with a personal hope to pave the way also to concrete initiatives and
partnerships that can benefit our neighbors on the Southern shores of the
Mediterranean and those Least Developed Countries particularly in that are
expecting to count also on our support.