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8:30 Registration
9.00 – 10.30 Welcome words by the State Minister for Science and Technology of Indonesia
Key note speech by Prof. Emil Salim (Former State Minister for Population and
Environment of Indonesia – confirmed)
11:40 – 12:00 Spotlights on excellent researchers and institutions from SEA for EU cooperation
Presentation by Florian Gruber (ZSI)
12:00 – 12:15 First results from a regional review of innovation policies in SEA
Presentation by OECD
12:15 – 12:30 Analyzing research activity in Climate Change – the RPM Net Asia-Pacific initiative
Presentation by Peter Haddawy (AIT)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Buffet
The objective of this session is to lay down the effects of climate change on the region of
SEA different and should explore how this is impacting on different areas of S&T
cooperation (such as such as food safety, emerging infectious diseases and renewable
energy).
Thereby it should serve as an introduction to the topics for the break-out sessions of the
second day of the conference. It should also introduce what is expected as an output
from the thematic break-out sessions, in particular with regard to recommendations for
topics or instruments for cooperation.
Program and list of speakers
The session will be moderated by (Tbc)
16:30 – 17:00 Presentation of the ADB Study “The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia:
A Regional Review”
Presentation by Dr. Ancha Srinivasan
17:00 – 17:30 Regional Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Southeast Asia
Presentation by …. Speaker: (tbc)
17:30 – 18:00 Impact of climate change on areas like food security, infectious diseases, biofuels –
Introduction to the break-out sessions
Presentation by …. Speaker: (tbc)
18:00 – 19:00 Opening of the Poster exhibition on SEA-EU S&T collaboration
19:00 Dinner
BI-REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS CONFERENCE
Thursday, 12th of November 2009
8:30 Registration
9:00 – 12:30 I. Thematic break-out session on food security and food safety
Focus of the session
A growing demand for safer, healthier, higher quality food coupled with a decrease in
land and water resources available for production and major investments in renewable
bio-resources and agricultural biofuels address new and emerging research opportunities
that address social, environmental and economic challenges.
Agro-ecosystems, and with them, food security also include coping with major
interlinked trends affecting the whole bio-economy: climate change and mitigation of its
effects. Agriculture is indeed greatly exposed to climate change since they directly
depend on climatic conditions. Consequences of extreme climatic events are already
visible and appalling: increased variations in crop yields leading to uninsured economic
losses for the agricultural sector, shortage of water resources, expansion of areas of
salinization, re-ermegence of parasitic and zoonotic diseases and new food and feed
contamination pathways…
Besides, the food crisis of 2002-2008 demonstrates the fragile nature of feeding the
world’s human population : increasing global demand for food, animal feed and biofuel
coupled with disruption in agricultural supplied caused by poor weather, crop diseases
ad export restriction in key countries have created chaos in international markets adding
to market speculations. Increased incidences of extreme climate events could
emphasize price volubility and changes in trade flow in the near future
The agricultural sector of tropical and sub-tropical countries in South East Asia countries
is particularly fragile and vulnerable to climate change. Critical role that agriculture can
play in fighting poverty and hunger, and ensuring food safety could be compromised.
This threat will be amplified by increasing competition between food and bioenergy
production objectives if no innovative and coherent solutions are found.
Any major food crises in these regions will directly impact Europe. Current trends
towards relative social and political stability in South East Asia, representing joint
economic opportunities for Europe, could be reversed by negative impacts of climate
change on agriculture. Therefore, the consequences of climate change on food security
and safety and emergence of mitigation scenarios must be addressed at a global level.
For Europe, it means that agricultural research for food security and safety must be
coordinated on close interaction with South-East Asia.
Through a range of key note address given by internationally renowned scientists from
both Europe and Asia countries, the session will address S&T gaps and identify needs and
topics of research of mutual interest for future bi-regional collaboration.
10:05 - 10:25 Impact of climate change of fish production from aquaculture and fishery
Presentation by Dr. Wenresti G. Gallardo, Asian Institute of Technology
10:25 – 10:45 Innovative methods and tools to reduce new food and feed contamination pathways
Presentation by Dr. Didier Montet, CIRAD
10:45 – 11:05 International food trade in relation to food safety changing issues and its
implication on food security
Presentation by Dr. Purwiyatno HARIYADI, Bogor Agricultural University, Southeast
Asian Food & Agric Science & Technology (SEAFAST)
Make it Work
Focus of the session
In this final session we concentrate on two parallel issues: what actions need to be
taken and how the SEA-EU-NET can help pushing them forward. On the one hand we will
present some success stories that helped enhancing co-operation between the two
regions and on the other hand we will discuss actions that need to be tackled in the
future. This should serve as an input for a bi-regional Action Plan for enhanced S&T
cooperation. In this final part concrete suggestions and comments from the audience,
especially from our Steering Committee members are very much appreciated.
Objectives:
Presentation of good practice of bi-regional cooperation schemes;
Discussion of future actions, that need to be developed;
Recommendations towards the project for future actions.
15:00 - 15:20 I. Success stories for EU-SEA S&T bi-regional cooperation schemes
15:40 – 16:00 II. Future of SEA-EU-co-operation discussion of future actions, recommendations from
the audience