2020/ Mainstreaming with Nature_Full program

9:00 am Opening
Carole Sinfort, Director of Training and Scientific Policy, Montpellier SupAgro
Michel Eddi, President and Managing Director, CIRAD
Damien Conaré, Secretary General, UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems, Montpellier SupAgro

9:30 am Inaugural conference by Pierre-Henri Gouyon, geneticist, French National Museum of Natural History

11:00 am Session 1: Food-oriented biodiversity management
– Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, Director General, African Model Forests Network, Member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES): “The nurturing forest”
– Marie-Paule Clément, agricultural raw material buyer, Léa Nature: “Biodiversity in agrifood processing industries”
– Selassie Atadika, chef at the Midunu restaurant, Accra, Ghana : “Culinary diversity to offset the ascendancy of rice in West Africa”

12:30 pm 2020 UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems Doctoral Award presentation

2:00 pm Conversation
“Humans and nature in comics” with Alessandro Pignocchi, comic book author

3:00 pm Session 2: Reflections on relationships in nature
– Marie-Laure Navas, Ecologist, Montpellier SupAgro; Director, Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE): “Biodiversity evolution and forward-looking scenarios”
– Valérie Chansigaud, Historian – Science and the Environment; Associate Researcher, Paris Diderot University – CNRS: “Revitalizing the pivotal role of social progress in safeguarding nature”
– Cécile Claveirole, Head of the Agriculture network, France Nature Environnment; Qualified Individual, French Economic, Social and Environmental Council (ESEC): “Agroecology and agrobiodiversity”
– Emilie Jeannin, livestock farmer, La ferme de Lignières (Côte d’Or Department, France): “Female farmers and livestock, ‘ethical beef’”

4:20 pm Conclusion
Selim Louafi, Political Science researcher, CIRAD, UMR AGAP