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BCARRD Conducts National Conference on
Climate
Change
The Bicol Consortium for Agriculture Resources
Research and Development (BCARRD) is taking the lead in initiating the
development and use of science and technologies to facilitate
rehabilitation, adaptation and coping strategies in the agriculture,
forestry and natural resources (AFNR) sector. The National Conference on
Climate Change Adaptation Science and Technologies for the AFNR Sector is
being conducted at Alicia Hotel, Legazpi City on October 21-23, 2009. The
conference theme “AFNR Sector Responding to Climate Change through Adaptive
S & T” was thoroughly discussed by the keynote speakers, Mr. Cedric Daep,
the Head of Albay Public Safety and Energy Management Office (APSEMO) and
Director Richard Juanillo, Deputy Director of PCARRD.
   
   
   
   
The objectives of the conference are the
following: (1) come up with an inventory of Philippine Climate Change
adaptive S&T; (2) provide venue for R&D practitioners for a discussion and
sharing of recent and present initiatives on climate change adaptive S&T;
and (3) document available climate change adaptive S&T for the AFNR sector.
Participants to the conference are
representatives from the partner member agencies, the academe, local
government units, non-government organizations, other consortia, and a
Professor and exchange student from Kochi University of Japan.
Ester B. Barria -
KMD
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