Agricultural Meteorology Programme (AGM)

Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries at the National and Regional Levels

Orlando, Florida, USA
18-21 November 2008

Programme	Workshop Brochure	Participants	Information Note
WMO/SECC Presentations: Session 2	WMO/SECC Presentations: Session 3	CAGM ICT Presentations	WMO/SECC Presentations: Session 7

This workshop is being held in conjunction with a meeting of the Southeast Climate Consortium (SECC) of the United States and the CAgM Implementation/Coordination Team (ICT) on Climate Change/Variability and Natural Disasters in Agriculture (ICCND).

WMO/SECC Presentations: Session 2 - PDFs

• Developing an Adaptation Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture by Ray Motha, United States Department of Agriculture
  
  
• Climate change/variability as it impacts national and regional agriculture, forestry and fisheries in Southeast Asia by Azhar Ishak, Malaysia Meteorological Department
  
  
• Socio-economic effects of climate Climate change/variability in South America (in Spanish) by Gonzalo Hurtado Moreno, Instituto de Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM), Columbia
  
  
• Overviews of the impacts, vulnerability and adaptation of climate change for agriculture in China by Panmao Zhai, China Meteorological Administration
  
  
• Climate change and variability: Current capabilities - a synthesis of IPCC AR4 (WG1) by Peter Falloon, UK Met Office
  
  
• Climate Change Scenarios for Agriculture by Samuel Gameda, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  
  
• Deficiencies in the operational applications of long-range predictions for agriculture, and recommendations for improving the technology for the benefit of agriculture at the national and regional levels by Barnabas Chipindu, University of Zimbabwe
  
  
• Overview of the Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation of Climate Change for Agriculture in Different Regions Based on IPCC Fourth Assessment Report by Kashyapi, India Meteorological Department
  
  
• Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Agriculture in South Asia by Mannava Sivakumar, WMO
  
  
• Impact of Climate Change on Fisheries by Jim Salinger, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand

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WMO/SECC Presentations: Session 3 - PDFs

• Overview of SECC mission, strategy, and programs by Keith Ingram, University of Florida
  
  
• Climate and the Challenge of Risk Communication by Kenny Broad, University of Miami
  
  
• Downscaling GCMs to local and regional levels by Guillermo Baigorria, University of Florida (PowerPoint Presentation - 1.8 MB)
  
  
• SECC extension and status of AgroClimate website by Joel Paz, University of Georgia
  
  
• Irrigation Assisted Rain-fed Agriculture A Sustainable Adaptation Strategy by Bruce McNider, Universoty of Alabama in Huntsville
  
  
• Agricultural research in the SECC: A systems analysis approach by Gerrit Hoogenboom, University of Georgia

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CAgM ICT Presentations - PDFs

• To review and coordinate the activities of the OPAG, as well as additional related activities of priority to the Commission, in order to ensure their effective implementation and adoption within Member countries by Anupam Kashyapi
  
  
• To summarize the status of climate change/variability studies as they impact national and regional agriculture, forestry and fisheries by Azhar Ishak
  
  
• To appraise and report on current capabilities in the analysis of climate change and variability specifically as they relate to and affect agriculture, forestry and fisheries at the national and regional levels; this includes analysis of changing peak values of rains, winds, flows of water, sediment and other materials carried, because they are of great importance to agriculture, in collaboration with CCl, where appropriate by Peter Fallon
  
  
• To support the elaboration of climate change scenarios and research on climate variability at the national level and summarize them at a regional scale to support the formulation of adaptation strategies for agricultural areas by Samuel Gameda
  
  
• To identify deficiencies in the operational applications of long-range predictions for agriculture, and make recommendations for improving the technology for the benefit of agriculture at the national and regional levels by Barnabas Chipindu
  
  
• To raise awareness of the work of the OPAG and to capture opportunities for promoting its work (in Spanish) by Gonzalo Hurtado Moreno
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WMO/SECC Presentations: Session 7 - PDFs

• Report of the WMO ICT Meeting by Ray Motha
  
  
• Report of the SECC discussions by Keith Ingram

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