Caux Dialogue on Land and Security:

addressing the human connections between poverty, conflict and

environmental degradation

Caux, Switzerland, 7-11 July 2013

Programme and Rooms

TIme / Session / Room
Sunday, 7 July
14h00 - 17h00 / Registration
17h00 – 18h15 / - Opening session, chaired by Martin Frick, Chair of Caux Dialogue Steering Group.
- Welcome from Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD, and Co-convenor of the Caux Dialogue on Land and Security.
- Keynote by Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science; Director,
Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, USA.
- Response by Ian Johnson, Secretary General, The Club of Rome / Main Hall
18h30 – 20h15 / Dinner / Dining room
20h15 – 21h30 / - Context by Dr Omnia Marzouk, President, Initiatives of Change International.
- Briefing by Chris Evans, Conference Coordinator
- Caux conference centre background
- Caux Dialogue daily programme
- Formation of Dialogue Groups / Main Hall
Monday, 8 July / GRASSROOTS ACTION ON LAND AND SECURITY
07h30 – 08h00 / Morning reflection, led by, RamezSalame, Lebanon. / Bay Window
08h00 – 08h45 / Breakfast / Dining room
09h00 – 10h15 / Dialogue Groups
10h15 / Plenary
- Keynoteby Bianca Jagger, Founder & Chair, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation;
IUCN Plant a Pledge Ambassador; Member, Executive Director’s Leadership Council, Amnesty
International USA.
- Panel
- Dr Peter Rundell, former head of DFID Libya (moderator)
- Adam Koniuszewski, Chief Operating Officer, Green Cross International
- Tony Rinaudo, Natural Resources Advisor, World Vision, Australia
- Simon Maddrell, Executive Director, Excellent Development / Main Hall
12h30 – 13h30 / Lunch / Dining room
13h30 – 15h00 / Networking space
15h00 – 16h00 / Workshops & presentations 1 / Please see below
16h00 – 16h45 / Tea / Salle du Lac
16h45 – 18h30 / Workshops & presentations 2 / Please see below
18h30 – 19h15 / Supper / Dining room
20h15 / Films on land restoration and trust building
“An African Answer”
“Walking on Water” / Theatre
500A
21h00 / “Black Gold – The Secrets of Compost”
To be announced / Theatre
500A
Tuesday, 9 July / RESTORING LAND – A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY?
07h30 – 08h00 / Morning reflection, led by Dr Amit Mukherjee, Jamshedpur, India. / Bay Window
08h00 – 08h45 / Breakfast / Dining room
09h00 – 10h15 / Dialogue Groups
10h15 – 12h30 / Plenary
- Keynote by Allan Savory, Zimbabwean biologist, farmer, soldier, exile, environmentalist; Winner of the 2003 Banksia International Award and the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
- Panel
- Margareta Barchan, Senior Partner, New Angles, Strategic advisors on sustainability and business transformation (moderator)
- JakobRhyner, Vice Rector, United Nations University
- Bernd Wilke, Top Topic Manager Partnering for Food Security, Swiss Re
- Juan Gonzalez-Valero, Head of Public Policy & Partnerships, Syngenta
- AtamSandhu, CEO, Developing Market Associates
- IlanChabay, Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. / Main Hall
12h30 – 13h30 / Lunch / Dining room
13h30 – 15h00 / Networking space
15h00 – 16h00 / Workshops & presentations 1 / Please see below
16h00 – 16h45 / Tea / Salle du Lac
16h45 – 18h30 / Workshops & presentations 2 / Please see below
18h30 – 19h15 / Supper / Dining room
20h15 / INITIATIVES FAIR
Sahel Regional Round Table / Main Hall
400
Wednesday, 10 July / GROUNDING PEACE AND STABILITY - ESPECIALLY IN THE SAHEL
07h30 – 08h00 / Morning reflection, led by Imam Muhammad Ashafa / Bay Window
08h00 – 08h45 / Breakfast / Dining room
09h00 – 10h15 / Dialogue Groups
10h15 – 12h30 / Plenary
- Keynote by HE AmedouOuldAbdallah, Mauritania, President of Centre 4s; former UN Special Representative to Burundi, West Africa and Somalia.
- Panel
- Martin Frick (moderator)
- Luc Gnacadja, Exec. Secretary, UNCCD; formerly an environment minister of Benin
- HE RidhaBouabid, Ambassador to the UN of the International Organisation of La Francophonie
- Chris Reij, Centre for International Cooperation, VU University, Amsterdam; Senior Fellow of The World Resources Institute, Washington
- Dennis Hamro-Drotz, Programme Officer, UNEP
- RamadaneBarma, Secretary General, La Médiature de la République, Chad / Main Hall
12h30 – 13h30 / Lunch / Dining room
13h30 – 15h00 / Networking space
15h00 – 16h00 / Plenary
- Keynote by Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
- Response by Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD.
- Signing of agreement between UNCCD and IUCN. / Main Hall
16h00 – 16h45 / Tea / Salle du Lac
16h45 – 18h30 / Workshops and presentations / Please see below
18h30 – 19h15 / Supper / Dining room
20h15 / CONCERT by Aroha Choir, Meghalaya, India and others. / Main Hall
Thursday, 11 July / LOOKING AHEAD
07h30 – 08h00 / Morning reflection, led by Pastor James Wuye / Main Hall
08h00 – 08h45 / Breakfast / Dining room
09h00 – 12h00 / Plenary
- Keynotes by Pastor James Wuye + Imam Muhammad Ashafa, Interfaith Mediation Centre, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
- Looking ahead – General Panel, interacting with participants.
- Break-out groups
- Reports and closure / Main Hall
12h30 – 13h30 / Lunch and Departures / Dining Room
Starting from July 8th,workshops and presentations meet daily from 15h00 to 16h00and 16h45 to 18h30 (rooms to be confirmed):
Monday, 8 July / ROOM
15h00 – 16h00 / Empowering Women through Peace Circles.
Joy Mbaabu, founding director of Amani Communities Africa, Nairobi, Kenya; and Kate Monkhouse, an International Co-ordinator for Creators of Peace. / 215
Community-driven water and land restoration in the Thar desert, India.
Prithvi Raj Singh and Kanupriya Harish, Jal Bhagirathi Foundation / 500
Community-driven soil and water conservation and climate-smart agriculture in Makueni County, Kenya.
African Sand Dam Foundation. / 300D
The links between sustainable land use, identity and tenure.
Noel Oettle, Environmental Monitoring Group, South Africa / 300E
Every cloud has a silver lining: Rainwater Harvesting.
VesselaMonta, Executive Director, International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance / 400
16h45 – 18h30 / Empowering Women through Peace Circles (Continued) / 215
Landscape in a Rice Bowl.
Kosima Liu, Executive Board Member and Associate Director, Environmental Education Media Project / 300D
Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Ana Cristina Angulo-Thorlund, Gender Liaison Officer, UNISDR / 300E
The potential of sand dams to restore degraded lands.
Simon Maddrell, Executive Director, Excellent Development / 400
to be confirmed
Tuesday, 9 July / ROOM
15h00 – 16h00 / Case study: Forest conservation and land restoration project in Laos.
Tom Duncan, Director, Ecoplan Consulting Pty. Ltd., and Per Bondesen, development economist and Senior Adviser at Prime Consultancy Co. Ltd. / 300E
Sustainable development through community building and individual change – a rural water management case study.
JayashreeRao, Executive Director, Grampari / 300D
Trust-building interventions amongst pastoralist communities in Kenya.
Alan Channer, Trustbuilding facilitator, Director of FLTfilms, and Joseph Karanja, a leader of Kenya’s Clean Election Campaign. / 500
Empowering pastoralists to reverse desertification and removing barriers to large-scale land restoration.
Allan Savory, President, Savory Institute. / 400
Resilience (provisional title).
JakobRhyner, Vice Rector, United Nations University / 300C
16h45 – 18h30 / Case study: Forest conservation and land restoration project in Laos. (Continued) / 300E
Farmer-managed re-greening: how to build a movement around it?
Chris Reij, Centre for Int. Cooperation, VU University; World Resources Institute + Tony Rinaudo, Natural Resources Advisor, World Vision, Australia. / 400
Investment Opportunities for Global Earth Repair Work & Ecosystem Restoration: Making the Case.
Rhamis Kent, Permaculture consultant, Program Director at Rame Environmental Education Programme. / 300D
Restoring Degraded Ecosystems by Unlocking Domestic Organic Market Potential: Case Study from Zimbabwe.
Georgina McAllister, Programmes Director, Garden Africa. / 300C
Trust-building interventions amongst pastoralist communities in Kenya. (Continued from previous day) / 500
Wednesday, 10 July / ROOM
15h00 – 16h00 / IUCN talk and signing ceremony / Main Hall
16h45 – 18h30 / Farmer-managed re-greening - how to build a movement around it? (Continued from previous day) / 400
Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel.
UNEP + IOM joint presentation / 300E
Linking policy and practice: preventing conflict around water, land and food.
Lynn Finnegan, Quaker UN Office. / 300D
Keeping a technological eye on dryland degradation and restoration: New science informing policy and action.
Dr Mark Mulligan, Senior Fellow on the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre / 300C
Pastoralist/Cultivator conflict and mediation in Chad and Nigeria.
Imam Ashafa and Pastor Wuye, Nigeria; Representatives of La Médiature, Chad; Dr Alan Channer / 500

The organisers are grateful to the Sponsoring Partners of the Caux Dialogue for Land and Security, below, for their support and involvement: