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The reports of Day 2 afternoon technical sessions are available from the Day 2 reports page.

More documents will be added as session leaders make them available. Please keep checking out http://www.worldagroforestry.org/wca2009/reports/day2.html

A CGIAR Change Management Blog post, submitted by Tim Cronin, CIFOR, summarises the research findings presented at WCA2009 in a symposium on adaptation to climate change: there is much potential for broadening carbon sequestration strategies to include agroforestry.

Read full post: Climate Negotiators Just Nibbling on the Edges

Scientists at WCA2009 suggest we look to trees for climate change solutions – including the species Faidherbia albida, which illustrates particularly well the benefits of growing trees on farms.

Already grown in about a dozen African countries, the tall, long-living, nitrogen-fixing tree sequesters carbon, while also reducing the need for chemical fertilizers, controlling soil erosion, providing fodder for livestock and wood for construction and fuel, and serving as a windbreak.

Read full article on the CGIAR Climate Change Blog: Hidden Benefits of a Tree Species for African Farmers

Nobel Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai is not one to hold her tongue – especially when it comes to taking steps now to save the environment. Read more about what she had to say on the CGIAR Change Management Blog.

A fantastic story by Time Magazine - As Farmland Grows, the Trees Fight Back - features the findings from Trees on Farm: Analysis of Global Extent and Geographical Patterns of Agroforestry and Dennis Garrity is quoted. The reporter closes the story calling the report and ICRAF's work "a rare bit of green good news".

Smiling at the good news???

From the ICRAF Photostream... check it out, pics are uploaded as they are taken

The reports of Day 1 afternoon technical sessions are available from the Day 1 reports page.

Here are the direct links (more will be added as session leaders make their documentation available).

The CGIAR Climate Change Blog has a piece on Achim Steiner's opening remarks yesterday at the WCA2009 opening session.

Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), called on participants to put solutions on the table that “can turn the challenges facing millions of small-scale farmers into one big opportunity for human-kind.”

Follow the Congress opening addresses on @icraf.

Hi, this is Antonella Pastore, CGXchange Project Coordinator, with the ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR.

I've joined the Congress reporting team just a week ago, to help organise social reporting, i.e. to bring the social Web to the Congress. And I've found up-and-going people here who are willing and keen on creating buzz online about the Congress.

My role will be mostly mobilising and supporting the reporters, blogging and tweeting from the sessions.