ype of billion in COP 27 and now ready for kickoff to start the implementation. I just like to highlight actually the during our workshop in Bali. We, we really paved the way, paved the road to a salient to a resilient and low emission ASEAN agriculture. And we envision ASEAN agriculture by 2050 as a resilient, biodiverse and pollution free agri food system that provides healthy and nutritious food for all in the ASEAN region. And we have identified four triggers of change. First is the integrated approach coordination and political will. Second is the strengthening the policy financial support and spread awareness and understanding of climate change. Third is the institutional institutionalized and binding ASEAN climate policy and action, and the fourth is scientific knowledge sharing and capacity building. I would also like to mention the 11 transformative actions and enabling conditions. First is the food system transformation action involving involving all stakeholders multi stakeholder program steering committee global Alliance on climate change. There is an investment in research and development. Strengthening stakeholder participation sustainability framework guiding action of public and private entities is strengthening data generation management and use sustainable finance effective implementation and sustainability. Second is the black national champion or key officials awareness of stakeholders true capacity building advocacy regional guidelines identify success story from the region, link national guidelines to regional guidelines. Mr Chairman. These are the views from the 10 action number states. And we we tried to put it in the in our work plan. Hopefully, Gaxa could partner with us in every every actions here and meeting we tried to, we call it love much. So we invite international organizations, partners a pay all CGI so hopefully that Gaxa will be will be involved in our future meetings. Thank you very much. Thank you. Dr for your comments that if we can that we can have the regional reports can we keep it to maybe three minutes because we are. You got some Fred just to give you a couple of more specific examples of the work the outputs of NACSA, which I think is really an example of why the regional alliances are so important. 70 farm organizations that are part of NACSA spent a lot of time on enabling policy, and they forge consensus on 50 enabling policy recommendations that were advanced to at least in the United States to the US Congress. The bulk of those were adopted. And yesterday you heard Terry Cosby describe the resources that he now has the $20 billion US billion dollars that the US government is made available for climate smart agriculture. The primary outputs of NACSA that we identified that as a need and then we went and advocated for it and the policymakers adopted it. So that's an example of enabling policy action for the second is the work that the NACSA members did in the climate convention in the cornivia joint work on agriculture. They had eight submissions that they introduced over the course of I think three years, and the core guiding principles that the NACSA members backed along with other partners in the farmer organizations around the world, including your region and others, ended up in the Sharma check agreement that came out of this long run out process that people thought was going to collapse and agriculture would be left on the cutting room floor at the 11th hour literally have cop 27. We made it in there, because our collective voices showed up. So that's really, I think an example of us working together on enabling policy. We have knowledge sharing, where there's so much that could be done we have limited resources so what we've chose to do is put out a quarterly newsletter that hopefully all of you or most of you are on our mailing list to see it, where we just try to share examples of innovation and experimentation that the members are pursuing. And occasionally we do a webinar. I think those would be just a couple of examples that I would lift up of how a regional alliance. Once you get the voice of the farmers and our value chain partners, lifted up and pointed in the right direction, they can have really profound outcome so hopefully there's other examples where together, we're all doing the same thing and getting similar outcomes. Thank you for that Ernie, but the one thing that we have also is we have a weekly update from from you and solution of land but all of the things that are happening and NACSA as well. So, let me give you the floor. Thank you. I just wanted to support on Dr. Margaret's presentation, and also to mention that the as in climate precedence met network is already working and is a member of GACSA. And in fact, we came I think as one of the we were highlighted as one of the best practices out there for how a regional alliance work in the second or third year of GACSA's annual forum. And GACSA has helped supported our independent regional dialogues for the food system summit. And it's just so bad that we couldn't show some of the slides that's happening in the region, where we have knowledge exchange events right on the beach where it's exciting or in the mountains so because we wanted to get more global partnership through GACSA and also to also compare with Ernie's intervention or sharing. It's very mirroring similarly what's happening with the Southeast Asian Alliance or the Asian climate resilience network. In terms of policy we had really such concrete output in which we'll push for the Asian negotiating group for agriculture. This is quite a big deal because agriculture was seen as a negotiation of the cop processes were really seen as the domain of the industries of environment. And for most of our countries when we came into the floor, we were really questioned as to what is the agriculture sector trying to do. So imagine the layers of bureaucracy that we need to get through in order to get the right recognition. And finally, as being recognized as a new negotiating group under the G77 in China was really quite a big deal. And though we have no pictures to show and in terms also of the financial addressing the bottleneck of finance, we went ahead and try and successfully got the green climate fund in order to accelerate investments for the transformation of the food system and capacity building. We've come up with so many policy tools promoting CSA also in partnership with GACSA. So we're very happy with that. But the main reason we wanted to share these experiences is we wanted to get more global partners together with GACSA's facilitation of these partnerships. Thank you, Mila. One of the things that is really prevalent with GACSA is as we go together with these regionals is we can have uncommon collaboration.  There's some groups that you may not even think about joining. One of the things I thought of is we have a new system in the United States called Starlink, where you have a broadband Wi-Fi in places that you don't know what they have. And it's really important to move some of these things along. Next we have Mohammed Musa and the regional for Central Africa. Would you like to have the floor? Yes, hello. There we go. You have the floor. Okay, thank you and hello to all of you. Excellent forum. I'm sorry I couldn't be here with you. My name is Mohammed Musa. I'm from the Nationality. I'm a resident of Gamena. I'm from the regional for Central Africa. Thank you. So, as it was said, we have also, as a regional alliance, for the past one year, we have tried to set up activities, we have made plans. And surely we have remembered another thing about regional consultations in Central Africa, consultations that will really be able to challenge the challenges and the development of the agriculture sector. So, these are the consultations that will really allow us to understand. Excuse me, could you, your voice is not coming over. It's very hard to interpret, can you maybe clear it up a little bit and maybe slow down and speak very clear. So, as I said, it's a little better. And as I said, I'm, my name is Musa. I'm from Central Africa. I'm from the regional alliance, Central Africa. I'm from the Nationality. And for GAXA, Central Africa, we have prepared to do regional consultations. We can, with all the member countries of Central Africa, on the challenges and the perspectives of the development of the agriculture sector, facing the areas of climate change. So, this will really allow us to put on the table all the difficulties that agriculture faces, and also to find suitable solutions that will really allow us to tackle the areas of climate change. This is a project that we have remembered. Unfortunately, as we were in the forum preparations, it didn't work out, but we are really happy to do it very soon. After the forum, the years have changed with the GAXA facilitation team for really a thousand years. So, it will really be an opportunity for all the countries of Central Africa to really tackle the difficulties they face and together to find ways to tackle them. And also to share the best practices. Today, well, there are a few countries that have still a little success. I would also like to make a dramatic change with technological innovation, with precision agriculture, as well as the irrigation system in Utah and intelligent agriculture. So, here are some of our ambitions. By the way, I am also the coordinator of the Global Climate and Smart Agriculture Network. So, it is the network of young people who are also involved with the GAXA. And I am also responsible for a smart village that is also in the field of technological innovation for intelligent agriculture. So, currently, this is a few elements that I would like to share with the team. Thank you very much. Now we have Justice Vita, the southern African region. You have the floor. Thank you, Chair. I have posted my presentation on the chat because of political connection. So you can just read on the meeting. Justice, we don't have your presentation. Can you share? Yeah, I'll share it on the chat. Please be very quickly. Thank you. I'm saying you can read on the chat because there's political connection this side. I put it on the chat. Okay. Can you share what you put in the chat? Thank you. All right. Okay. All right. About SACSA, in line with the African Climate Smart Agri-Vision 2525, which aims to support at least 25 million farm households in participating through the Climate Smart Agri-Vision by 2025. In 2018, the Southern Africa Climate Smart Agri-Line was formed in Maputo and we are actually focusing on quite a lot of issues. We see providing multiple platforms for facilitating pay exchange and learning, building a common understanding of climate smart agriculture and aligning harmonized climate change in the agricultural programs being undertaken across the Southern Africa region and more scales. More specifically, Southern Africa Climate Smart Agri-Line 64-star Climate Smart Agri-Vision partnerships, alliances and networks programs by enabling access to information on financing and opportunities, support a more coherent approach to formulating national climate change and actual police from such as NAPS, NDCs, NAPS, etc. And then our key guiding principles is to accelerate the scaling up of climate smart agriculture by following key principles. Number one, there is an inclusive networking and networking platforms that provide an usual space for dialogue, consultations and knowledge sharing. Second bullet, broker and catalyze partnerships for the development, scaling up and generation of innovative evidence-based options for climate smart agriculture. Third bullet, facilitating sharing information and experienced technologies, knowledge and practices on the base climate smart agriculture approaches at all levels, taking holistic, integrated, cross-sectoral and indigenous peoples and recognizing that small orders, including farmers, livestock, keepers, fishers and foresters are the most vulnerable to climate change. Thank you. Hello. Thank you. And we also, sorry, the last bullet, we intend to leverage on more stakeholder and on programs of knowledge generation, brokering, commissioning more institutional studies, analysis and research, documenting this practice experience and lessons. I think this has been emphasized to all the citizens starting yesterday and today there was an emphasis on this. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. And now we'll hear from Divine Inchcom for the youth. I'll start from the floor. Yes. Hello, everyone. Good evening, everyone. We cannot hear you. Give us some clarity. Now there are new workers behind you. Oh. Much background noise. Do you eliminate death? Yes. Can you hear me now? There's too much microphone in there. We can't seem to hear you. Can you hear me? So many people. Can you stop the back of our... Can you hear me? Can you hear me? That's better, that's better. Go ahead. Okay, good. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'm so delighted to be here. And I'm intervening concerning the alliance, the various regional alliance. I just want to say that CSA1N, of course, we support the secretariat, the position unit, to make sure that this alliance is pregnant. And the mama that just spoke is one of our members from Chad. And we have dedicated ourselves to make sure that CSA1N works hard in groups with YAPSAR, in the sense that we have a very broad and large outreach. So it's easy for us to implement this across world. And for this reason, we'll be working very closely with the secretariat for the position unit to rule out the alliances in other continents that we are not so far. Thank you very much indeed. And we are planning together with the various secretariat members here at CSA1N to rule out the GAFSA agenda across all of our program. Because GAFSA actually is one of our flagship programs. We have decided to take it as one of our flagship programs. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay, you know, something we probably should maybe recognize, are there some regions that are working closer with other regions? Is there any reports of that? Clyde, would you want to say something? Anybody in the room? Yes, anybody here or even online? If you have something to report from another region, why we'd like to hear that. Yeah, so Canada is part of the North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance. The Canada is a member. But we've been certainly doing a lot of work to collaborate between our African project and what's going on in Canadian agriculture. And we've had over, I think, a dozen technical sessions between leaders in academic and extension world in Africa and Canadian institutions as well. So, you know, in Canada, the federal government has said an NDC of a 30% absolute reduction in fertilizer or nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer use. And that's been a very aggressive target. We've been working with the government on how to try and at least move towards that by the target of 2030. And the federal government has set up a subsidy program for farmers to access BMP technology. But in Africa, it's a very different scenario where currently fertilizer use in Africa is about eight kilograms per hectare, which is a fraction of what a normal farm would use in developed country. The African Union in 2006 set a target at Abuja to increase that fertilizer use from eight kilograms to 50, which is a more or less a five-fold increase. So, the issue in Africa related to fertilizer is that the African continent fulfills its promise to increase yields and product production, which is critically important not only to food security, but to the development of the economies of African countries. There will be a corresponding increase in nitrous oxide emissions. So, it's critically important that we move now to get best management practices and what we advocate for our program, which is what's used in North America, to limit the growth in those emissions. And we think we can have a significant impact in flattening the curve, which is a phrase that was used a lot during COVID-19, and reduce a lot of the emissions that would occur unless farmers have better systems for fertilizer use. And I think that is a massively critical challenge. I'm less sort of aware on livestock except they know that there is a push for more and more confinement to agriculture in Africa, particularly in terms of chicken and other poultry. And again, that is a challenge related to emissions. So, I think that there's some very significant challenges in Africa, but that's due to the need for Africa to catch up after a century of flattening, so far beyond the rest of the world in its agricultural productivity. Thank you, Clyde, for that. Does anybody else have an item they would like to share that they're working with another region? Yes. Thank you very much. So, I have one question. I hear what you just said, and I do agree with definitely that we need to improve the way of different continents in their own agriculture, but I also would like to understand better how these needs that you were stating about improving the accessibility of fertilizer in Africa, which is very much lower than other continents, can fit well with some of the projects that we hear with that they were actually increasing their productivities we just hear from the winner of the Shark Tank of last year with an organic approach, because my question is a bit larger here. It would be interesting to hear about this discussion, but at the same time, I think it's a great opportunity the fact that GAXA is including different stakeholders and a variety of approaches, but I also would like to understand better how these different approaches of different companies, organization, and then just with similar goals, are actually planning to work together and to collaborate, because I think the key word we are using here is enabling environment collaboration, but I also would like to understand how this will work. And this is also a question that's coming because in our own organization, we are having similar discussions because we are promoting an agricultural approach, a climate smart agriculture approach for rice cultivation system of rice intensification, which is practiced by a variety of farmers, some of them are organic, some of them are not, and we would like to understand better how collaboration between these different views, different people can bring a constructive discourse. So that's my question. Thank you very much. Thank you. Sure. So fertilizer is food for plants. It is the, indeed, you can get fertilizer using processes that we have. We can mine it from deposits, but we can also take the nitrogen from the air. We're all breathing nitrogen right now, capture it and turn it into a granular fertilizer. But the major other source of nutrients for plants in the world is manure from cattle and chicken and hogs and other livestock. And the challenge the world faces is there is not enough livestock in the world to produce enough manure to fertilize all the crops. So for example, in Canada, which has one of the most productive crop systems in the world, only about 10% of the nutrient needs for crops actually comes from manure. And even though we have very intensive livestock operations in Canada, we don't produce enough manure to fertilize all the crops and that's the deficit. It's similar in Africa where they simply don't have enough manure to grow all their crops without the use of fertilizer. Before a nutrient stewardship system that we have developed uses, can be used for either manure or fertilizer or both used together. So our position would be that the first thing a farmer should do is see if he has access to manure. If he does, then use that, but it's probably not going to be enough to properly fertilize his crops. And therefore he's probably going to have really productive crop production to utilize fertilizer as well. And two, when you look at Africa, there's a lot of grazing systems. So there's cattle in broad settings on the savanna and you can't collect the manure from those systems. It's extremely difficult to do that. So there are significant challenges, but there's no reason that fertilizer cannot work hand in hand with manure. There's benefit to both. And that's, I think, something where we can collaborate with everyone in systems to produce better productivity. Thank you, Clyde. We've got time for one more speaker that's online is Wajid Nassin. You have the floor. Thank you very much, respected Fred and the co-chair, Honorable Co-Chair of Kagoksa. It was an excellent session. And I am really honored to have the time for speak something. It's about the discussion that went out from yesterday this session, the morning session. It was an excellent discussion. I will just have not questioned any observation, just compliment that as most of the speakers are talking about the capacity building. So I will just request the Honorable Chair and the higher management of Kagoksa to ensure it to be implemented in a practical way. So that all the members, we are members of Kagoksa, honestly speaking, the Islamic University of Baham is also the member of Kagoksa from Pakistan. So I will just request that in all the members of Kagoksa should ensure they maintain the form of joint ventures in the form of capacity building workshops in the form of joint ventures and also get together to keep all the least developed areas, I mean, to keep and look together in collaboration so that all the members should also have the opportunities to share the ideas, to share their knowledge regarding climate smart agriculture. Thank you very much, respected chair. Thank you very much. I was just notified by Hans. So we got a few more minutes he's given me. So we got a few more comments here. Would you you'd like to floor? OK, thank you so much. My name is Kaga John from Ganga. And I work with I'm a small order firm, but also I work with a local organization known as Chicanda Environmental Association. And I have been there for more than 30 years. And formally before climate smart agriculture was introduced, informally we are doing it. But when this climate smart agriculture was introduced, I discovered that we have been practicing it for quite a long time without knowing and we have been also practicing agroecology. And now we are implementing a project known as climate smart agroecological innovative project. And we usually promote local innovations as well as adding any scientific innovations. That's why yesterday I was mentioning something to do is promoting local innovations, especially with the farmers. Because with the farmers there is a lot of knowledge there down there. But what they need is to get people, the scientists, to see how they can analyze it and then disaggregate data and then to document it and so forth. And they are working. And what we do, we have been promoting local innovation so that we can improve the planet's health, people's health, and improving people's livelihood. And we have also a motto which says that here is a soil, here is a planet. And then we have discovered that most of us are taking food which is not here, but because it is grown in unhealthy soil. Therefore, we are promoting also the health of the soil. And then apart from that, we are planting, we are concentrating on planting in dignas and the fruit trees. We don't promote these other trees and it is working because it add a lot of fertility in the soil and also conserve the environment and not only conserving the environment, but also mitigate climate change. As I am concluding, we have been so lucky that in our community, it was so dry, it was like there was no trees, but now we never did a forest village because now when you enter into the community, you will not see the building, you will not see this land, but it is just covered with trees and it is like a forestry and it has improved the people's livelihood and we know we are contributing a lot to climate mitigation and adaptation. But maybe what we are asking from this forum is that if we can get scientists to see how much we have contributed to local, national and global world due to reducing gas-house emissions, that is what we are asking now. Please, we are requesting you to join us so that we can do something and then also upscale because now even funding, okay, we got funding, but getting funding as my colleague said with the small holders, they have the knowledge, they have the idea and so forth, but putting the idea into the language the funders or the investors want is a problem. Also, I think we also need a lot of assistance, not only for my organization or for my country, but I know most of the developing countries have such a problem. They come with a very good ideas, but putting that idea down become a problem and that is why we miss a lot of money from donor funding or from even government. Thank you all for listening to me. Thank you very much. We had a whole list of questions that we were hoping to discuss, but we ran out of time unfortunately, but I would like to end with this one last question. The question was, how can GAXA support regional initiatives and networks that are working to remove climate-smart practices? And I'll just answer what I would think, and I really think that we heard some comments yesterday if GAXA could become the clearinghouse of information and if we could meet on a regular basis, you know, maybe even quarterly or at least bi-annually and learn what each region is doing, I think it's going to be tremendously helpful that and some of these practices will work everywhere, but some of the ideas can transition to another region very easily. So it's really important that we all know what you all are doing and we can learn from each other and farmers learn from farmers. So once we get to farmers, convince the leading farmers, then then others will follow. So anyway, thank you so much for all your comments. We hope to put a one-pager together of all the recommendations that are the things that you all are doing and then we'll get that out to you. But thanks for all your comments. Thank you. Back to you. Back to you. Thank you so much, Brad. And I think that concludes the session and regional alliances, but it doesn't mean that it's going to end here. So we wanted to encourage everyone to continuously talk with one another with the other regional alliances and whom you wanted to learn from. And I wanted, I have the pleasure to announce lunch and hopefully see you back at 2.15, 2.15 p.m. All right. See you then. Have a nice lunch. Good afternoon, dear friends. Hope you have had a good lunch and re-energized yourself. Great to see that we still have so many people in the room because as long as I remember animal fora of the alliance, when the fun part starts of the meeting, especially looking to the internal things to be discussed, people have other business to do. So great to have you here. But before going to the governance and some things we really have to discuss, one positive remark or two positive remarks. First, a new regional alliance is to be born. Our friend from Armenia takes up the task to see whether or not he can start an alliance. It is part of the regionals, which is very much needed. So that's a concrete outcome. Thank you so much. And of course, we fully support you. We already spoke that there will be a joint effort to establish that. Then I would like to give the floor to our friend from Newfield because she would like to say something about what's happening in Europe or the European Union. Please, there is somewhere a seat. Please take the floor there or here. I'm not biting. Yes. Thank you, Hans. So this morning, we heard a lot of inspirational stories about all the different areas in the world. And I would like to share something with you. Maybe you remember, but my name is Judith DeVore and I'm a farmer from the Netherlands. And in the European Union, there is an organization. It's called Kopa Kugeka. And they represent farmers organization and farmer cooperatives from the European Union. And they work together on a lot of different kind of topics. And one of them is actually climate smart agriculture and the environment. And this is something I really like to share with you because I heard a lot of people here present saying we need to listen to farmers, talk to farmers, understand farmers. But like I said yesterday, farmers have a lot of knowledge. So we can also learn from the best practices from the farmer's organizations present at Kopa Kugeka. So if you want to learn more about the actual products they're doing when it comes to innovation, research, development, best practices from farmers, you can have a look there as well. Because I strongly believe that farmers are a big solution for all the problems we see when it comes to climate change and we should definitely listen to what farmers have to say. So thank you Hans. Thank you very much Judith. And of course we hope to evolve you and your region much as possible also your organization. Global Farmer Network. Because I think that should be in the heart of, it is in the heart of our work. Thank you so much. Dear friends, we go now to the governance part. And let's make it not, there are some serious issues, but also perspectives to be created. And I always like challenges and perspectives. First of course you have seen, we have had the strategic meeting of the meeting of the strategic committee on the 1st of February, preparing this annual forum. And if you run through the notes, I think many of the things which were mentioned there are in the stage of implementation. Of course they advised about the setup of the annual forum which we are now about the programs and projects. But one thing is still bothering us is the implementation of the decision of the four last annual forum. And it's about the composition of the strategic committee. I think three years ago, two or three years ago, the annual forum decided that we should have a strategic committee. We have now around 50 members of the strategic committee to see whether or not we can come to a strategic committee where we have the action group leaders, the co-chairs, of course the host, but especially also representatives of the constituencies. So the annual forum then decided, let's have the constituencies nominate or not nominate, but choose two or three persons for each of the constituencies. And then of course everybody went away and it was hopeful and cheerful that those constituencies would nominate two or three representatives. But although the facilitation unit, Secretariat said many replies called, etc., I think it's only one or two constituencies out of the six or seven we have, which could arrive at two or three representatives, whether it would be rotations, the scheme, etc. And of course it is difficult because what I saw also from the email exchange is that medical constituencies had difficulty that they perhaps have seven nominees and had to choose them two or three. So the question arises because we could not implement it, whether or not we should stick to that decision or should take the decision that we maintain the broader strategic committee as it was before we took the decision of a smaller strategic committee, because we can go another year, but I don't see it happening that we now, although there are I believe in miracles in Rome and sometimes they happen in the Rome miracles, but I don't see them happening in this case. And of course you cannot ask the facilitation unit or the coaches, whoever, to decide who should represent who. And still I think it's important that we, if we prepare for example for the annual forum and it was a clear request also to have more frequently exchanged with the broader, the broader community of Garza, that we maintain some kind of strategic committee. So I would like to listen to your input, but otherwise my idea would be go for the second best option, maintain the strategic committee as it was last time because the last time we invited all members of the strategic committee and anyhow it was about 30, 35 people who showed up. So that's a reasonable size but I think perhaps that would be the best way for it, but we are of course, we stand ready that the team and I ready to your suggestions and ideas, but I think that would for me be the most simple solution. Who, Marsha and Rosa, so Marsha Rosa. Thank you, Mr. I think that proposal that you just made makes a good sense in terms of, bless you, in terms of representation because it's difficult for people to nominate and also in the smaller, in the proposal, the smaller strategic committee, there was always the option to participate as an observer. So you would have the full participation anyway. So I think the proposal you just made stick with the old strategic committee makes sense. Thank you. Thank you very much. I like that very much, but because I live by two or three rules besides integrity, it's a rule of inclusiveness and transparency. And I think, as was said also yesterday and today, it's so important that we work inclusively with all the members of Garza and those who want to participate should have the possibility to participate. So thank you, Marsha Rosa. Thank you that I fully agree with the proposal you made. Thank you. Cam, who is somebody? Domenico. So if I can share a point of view, I think that the most inclusive solution can be the best even though maybe it requires more members and so on. Because one, at least from my experience with Garza, what I really appreciate is properly the inclusiveness and also the broader possibility to have a discussion with different stakeholders all together in the same room, all together in the same place. So if I can give my opinion, I will stay on a broader representation, so at least as it is. Thank you very much, Domenico, for your support. I give the floor to Vayit online. Thank you very much, respected chair, for giving me the opportunity to have the talk and give my opinion. So in my opinion, just I will suggest this is Dr. Vajit from the Islamic University of Bahá'u'llu for Pakistan. So I am also the member of Garza last year, from last year. So this is my humble request to the respected chair if they have to include some least developed countries and the members from least developed countries so that the development might have to share the exchange of the weakness, or you can say to build up some collaborative initiatives and to discuss the opportunities or you can say such type of things. So it will be very nice and appreciative if you can choose, select some people from least developed members countries. Thank you. Thank you very much. I think with the option now, I think everybody is certainly also representatives of least developed countries, organizations within least developed countries are able to participate and certainly we will promote and stimulate that. Any other request for the floor? Are you finished? So can I take that we maintain the strategic committee as it was or now is? I see nothing. Thank you so much. Then we go to really serious business. At least we show you the, when it comes to financial and financing of Garza, we show you the financial report of 2022. Of course, 2023 is still underway, but we have the facts and figures of 2022, which was also shown in the Garza annual report. And then give Federica the floor to present that slide. Thank you very much Hans, very briefly. The annual for the budget for Garza, we had in the expenditures in 2022 was 274,348 with the general staff, consultants, technical support services. The major expenses was on consultants and general staff, but also technical support services. We remain for available budget for 2023 is a 243,150 that we agreed to use for consultants, technical support services, and general operative services. Thank you very much Federica. I always like simple and concrete, keep the slide on. The report, especially when it comes to financing, it's clear that we are secured for this year, the whole year with funding. But what we have seen of course over the last two, three years is we had, and that's also later on leading in another proposal, is that we were completely depending on public funding. And we had the last nine years we had donors from US, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, certainly also Ireland, and perhaps one or two other countries, but we are running out of donations for funding because for 2022 we have till now only, and also 2023 only one donor left and that's Ireland. And Ireland is a very strong donor and also confirmed supporting also the next couple of years. But as you see, for this year we are secured, but we need to look for more funders. And I would say it doesn't have to be, and that's why I'm coming. But let's first see if there are any questions about this oversight of the financing. I see no questions. Online it's justice. Thank you so much Chair. With the look of things on the budget report, we are just showed that the expenditures were the revenue because we're supposed to have a presentation on the income to say this is what we received for the period that we're talking about and then versus the expenditures because we cannot have a decision whereby we only have expenditures without having the revenues. What were the revenue like, the sources of those revenues, right? I think it's supposed to be reflected in our financial report to say who contributed what what versus what we have expanded. We have shown you on the table what the expenditures were in 2022. And yes, but my question is more to do with what was, I mean, in terms of revenues, what the sources of revenues, I think they should be reflected also on our. The source of revenue was one donor and the donor was Ireland. And how much was that because that's income versus expenditure because we cannot just explain what we don't have. That's my understanding of an interim reporting. Ireland funded around 70,000 euros in 2022 and of course we had some remaining funds from previous year but in 2022 we received 70,000 euros from Ireland. That's why it's so important that we look to broadening our funding base for our alliance. And of course you can be assured that we will write as co-chairs letters to previous and current donors for funding. But it comes to the broader basis of GAXA because we are hosted by or housed by and hosted by FEO and the hosting arrangement means that FEO has a trust fund for GAXA and we follow the staff rules of FEO. But one of the problems with the hosting arrangement is that we are not allowed to receive any funding from the private sector or philanthropic organizations. And of course that meant already that we missed and we did our utmost but we could not bend the rules. We missed already one million dollars in 2022 of funding. And of course FEO is a UN organization and you know how the UN is working. It's impossible to change the bureaucratic organization. But let's say themselves are in problems in the financial issues. But that's why also for a funding reason but also what you have seen I think the last one and a half day how crucial inclusiveness is and inclusiveness means all partners. And I think as we are sitting here our call upon you please help us to find more donors. But also I think we should and that's a proposal which we also discussed in the city the committee to look for a co-hosting arrangement so that we can broaden our network because it's important that we still have the hosting arrangements with FEO because of all the expertise which is in the building which we can make use of. But at the same time I think there are networks out there which can strengthen our basis in our communities which have their own networks. And of course we are not looking for six or seven co-hosts but for example it's a very strong network which is very supportive and several members of that network are participating these two days here in Rome and that's the international equity food network which is kind of a broad network within farmers within businesses within equity businesses which could help us broaden certainly when we go to the next phase of our work trying to support implementation of agriculture sustainable agriculture is dealing with one of the biggest threats with this climate to support action on the ground where for example some of the speakers are also a member of which are willing to help us to implement some of the projects and programs we have so based on the discussion in the city committee the idea would be that we look to for a co-hosting organization which broaden our strongholds in our communities with a lot of expertise and of course the first discussions has been started with the international equity food network but they have their own discussions but that gives us brings us in a direction probably where we need to go. Nothing is decided yet because it takes two to tango but it helps us when it comes to inclusiveness it helps us when it comes to technology it helps us in capacity and certainly it would also help us to get broader funding and it's not that we raise our hand please give us some money but it helps us to reach out to much more entities to support the work we are doing as a GACSA because we need support. Thank you Hans I wanted to rise and speak in support of the proposal to establish a different governance model for GACSA. I personally have been involved with GACSA since before GACSA was GACSA when we had a whole series of meetings talking about the need for a different type of platform where government, academia, farmer organizations, private sector, civil society could convene around a table and collaborate and co-create and that was a much different model than existed within the UN system at the time. There was strong recognition that the 21st century challenges that we're facing require a 21st century platform and there was strong support to create what became GACSA so we came together and we recognized quickly that we needed a home we needed a banker we needed a fiduciary agent to hold and manage funds and the logical one was FAO because FAO helped give birth to GACSA. We then went through a period of years where we grew and evolved and we started to perform and we got a bigger appetite and we saw the need for more money and we started to reach out and try to attract donors and what we found was there was interest from the donors but there was embedded customs practices bureaucratic norms within FAO that prohibited those dollars from coming in and being used to support the platform and we tried hard. We put a task force together that met with FAO officials and tried to find a way to negotiate a relationship where we both had confidence we could bring money in and a couple of you around the table were part of that process. Marcel, to my right, I'm pretty sure you were one of them. Federico, you helped us from a staffing standpoint and I remember we had long hours with the FAO gatekeepers for lack of a better word because that was their job and we couldn't break through. There was no flexibility to allow for what we were looking for so we went then back and I don't remember my years I'm thinking this is 2017 or 18 it was pre-COVID and we said well what do we do now? Do we stay in the FAO house and just operate off of government money? Do we leave FAO and strike out on our own? And we looked at different options and one of the options that we came up with was the concept of co-hosting where we would stay hooked to FAO to benefit from all of the assets that comes with FAO but we would also now have a modification of our governance system where we would have a not-for-profit co-host that could serve as the fiduciary agent and receive and manage funds that the UN system was not prepared or capable of managing so this concept is not new. We thought about it long and hard, COVID hit, it kind of got pushed to the back burner but now that we're coming back to life again this feels to me to be essential for us to operate with great flexibility so I would just say Hans we've a number of us have been thinking about this for a long time and have high confidence that migrating to a co-host model preserves all the good we have with FAO and opens much greater flexibility to bring in the other partners that can also help resource what we do so I speak in support. Thank you very much. Thank you chair. So I was just recalling the proposal of the colleague, Roberta Yanna today about joining the PCCB trying to amplify the toes. I was thinking maybe in the situation that you described a more like we can say relevant presence into the climate negotiation to the COP can really help especially because now for agriculture into the climate negotiation is a particular fruitful moment we can say with the coronavirus now with the summer shake work program agriculture has been streamed into the discussion into climate change negotiation and countries are also finding ways to implement a disease and in that venues also there is the possibility to talk directly with delegates from countries convince them on on the possibility eventually to donate and also to contribute in terms of like applying and fulfill their indices and I don't know maybe a presence there like a more structural present there can help also to find the donor in terms of states and so on I don't know is our suggestion. Thank you. Thank you very much. So many I think it's very excellent suggestion because I think we need to be where we need to be there also explaining the strength and inspirational activities which we are now going to develop with donors or with countries governments but also the whole community which is always there at COP so I think it's very good suggestion I give the floor to justice and then to Addison. Thank you so much. I remember what the annual forum in 2016 and 2017 the issue of co-hosting I think it was emphasized a lot but I don't know what went wrong along the lines at something that is you know I totally support to say less if that idea of co-hosting and co-creation and then the other thing that also came out of that that meeting the annual forum was I mean the the formation of a task force I think it has been raised by the other speaker and then that just was a task in terms of mobilization of resources for GAX but I don't know what happened also to that committee I think there's room for us now we can maybe revive that committee and ensure that that pretty mobilizes more resources for for for for GAX so that we can be in a position to strengthen the regional alliances. I think we lost now connection but I know that Ernie was part. I think that was the increase of the wedding groups because there was a proposal to have a women's wedding group and then youth led the group so I don't know what really happened you know from I mean after the meeting that we had in Rome and then the other issue that was also raised was to say instead of actually having these annual forums in Rome alone I think we were supposed to have it in Canada so I don't know maybe it was because of COVID we couldn't do that but since the formation of the GAX in 2014 then 2015 we had a meeting and then all these ideas that I can talk about they were raised in that particular meeting and I think what we then need to do is to add let's reflect way back in 2016 2017 what was discussed we totally did it and then we add to upon those uh decision those particular annual forums was very critical thank you. I think we have lost connection but you know I know I've heard what but I think Ernie was part of that working group I think perhaps Marce was also part of that working group that came together did work but I was not part of the group but either I give Ernie or Marceau the floor because they did their work they came forward with some suggestions I give them both the floor because that's better I know I have it in front of me but I'm not going to without what was yeah we we did a lot of due diligence this wasn't something we had a copy over and came back and provided a report we met over months and we filed a written report and I've sent the written report into the facilitation unit so that there's a there's a record of minutes so that this is not some quickly thrown together process we were very careful in thinking about options and one of the options frankly was to leave FAO and go off and operate independently and we even identified a couple of organizations and we don't need to name today that that maybe we would go be attached to and we went through a pros and cons exercise of what's the upside what's the downside and that didn't feel right so we we rejected the options that we felt were not in the best interest of GAXA and landed on the co-host model so and Marceau maybe you can help amplify or if Marceau thank you chair yes I can only support what what Ernie just said we found out that it's indeed as you pointed out chair virtually impossible to access private funds while being singly hosted by UN agency and UN agency for that matter so I can understand indeed why you would go for a co-hosting agreement I can support that in a few of the the needs of GAXA we as the Netherlands have been one of the main donors over the past couple of years number of years indeed most of the funds as you hinted at available for this year is a no-cost extension of the funds that we donated to GAXA we would very much suppose of a support a broader donor base and in that light we can support your suggestion to look for a co-host thank you thank you very much I think it answers three questions already I think it was very good because and we'll make sure that our website that report is available again to all members what the committee did and it came forward with a clear idea of co-hosting because they went through the pros and cons of each of several options as Ernie said going outside of FEO staying only in FEO with the handicap you have now or go to a co-hosting arrangement and at that moment I think there was a clear preference for co-hosting but of course at that moment there are several feasibilities or impossibilities for co-hosting which have now been arising as one of the possibilities so the idea would be to go along that line we are not deciding anything yet because as I said it has to be two to ten go and we clearly have to write down all the elements of an arrangement I think what I see is that there's a clear wish to stay in FEO for the expertise which its organization is offering and also within the UN but also to see with the co-host how we can broaden several basis for our work certainly with the inspiring two days we have had here so my proposal to Dada just to register the online support for the co-host and from some of the participants but I also wanted to ask if there is a possibility to have a short list of possible co-hosts no yeah of course I can short list of candidates of course the question is of course do we wish to because I can mention five organizations or ten organizations which could be feasible I didn't approach them but I think it's important that we start working with one or two and what we are perhaps missing which out there and it has to be a strong network because we can go to a smaller organization but one of the things which came out of that group it has to be an added value besides the co-hosting with it added value to the organization I mean Gaxa I give Martin the floor thanks and a really useful conversation I mean it seems overall given that this is a multi-stakeholder platform to have a multi-stakeholder hosting is also a helpful idea I think one of the questions would be is how does that hosting where you would get selected who gets selected and by what means obviously writing down what that consists of to some extent in terms of reference for what hosting looks like drawing from the experience of being hosted in FAO which I think has informed a lot of the experience over the last few years would certainly be helpful and then understanding what the path would be to select a co-host and on what basis I think one of the questions would be is what's the funding arrangement for that if that's a pro bono contribution of the host to Gaxa because I think that that funding question comes back it's sort of it's a bit of a circular process but as on a conceptual level co-hosting seems like it can only bring value as long as the coordination between the two parts can be clear and clean because I think we need what's hosted in FAO to communicate well with what's hosted outside of FAO and so there's some ironing out to do but embarking on the process of starting ironing before we have the fabric maybe is worthwhile anyways thank you Marcel thank you having heard what's just been said can I come up with a proposal that we as group endorse the co-chairs to explore co-hosting make with organizations as they see from these moments and make a proposal to the strategic committee and then we decide then. Excellent and now to me actually a proposal and I think it was I think a good proposal to make a terms of reference what do we seek in the co-hosting arrangement so what does it mean also how can it be materialized because it means also something for managing coordinating and then of course it's up to the strategic committee and annual forum then to finalize and to decide on it and of course in that process we can identify because it doesn't say that we need only have one co-host that could be perhaps two depends how much they offer I would say how keen they are but I think it's very important that it has the co-hosting is a stable network which I would have a marriage with the host FAO for many years I think that's important has a strong basis in the work which the Alliance is doing as a strong relationship with the UN as well as with the FAO but let's work on data and I together with the team will work on the terms of references proposed by Marshall work on the arrangements which are feasible what does it mean for the funding what does it mean for the coordination we bring back that to you to the strategic committee for further discussion and then of course basal that we take in annual forum next year final decision would that be the way forward Madison yes Hans I agree that's a good way forward I would just like to add on I think the terms of reference is really important I think a timeline though is critically important because as Ernie said we have had we've been working on this for a long time then COVID hit but I mean if we don't get a decision on the co-host by the end of the year and we have to keep going on like this it's not going to be helpful so I think we need to say by the end of the year we need some decision from some organization if they can't co-host us we need to find another option and then I think I also really want to make the point that we should be at the cop and the SP meetings as GAXA we can apply for status as an NGO I think or work with our organizations to do that we should be having a exhibit there at every meeting we should be networking because we need to be meeting with countries and NGOs and we need to be visible so I will be at the SP meeting I know many people will be this June I think GAXA should be there and should be at the cop and I guess the final thing I wanted to say is I don't understand why FAO cannot accept outside funding because I'm working with UN FCCC it's another UN agency and they are able to take outside funding they're getting funding from a big foundation so maybe we go back one more time and ask and say that's an example and the last thing is can we could we write a statement from this strategic committee meeting saying we really request the strong support of FAO and we need the strong support thank you very much okay thank you thank you first you can be assured that we will be at the cop as GAXA where I come to you sir secondly I know other organizations even within Rome like the World Food Program which is has a different position when it comes to funding from the private sector and over the last seven years when I've been working with FAO in different jobs I tried with others to get things done in this direction but the answer is in black and bold no we are now working on an I would say guidelines around private sector engagement in governing body meetings as a first step I would say modernizing the relationship between FAO and other entities because it's not only the private sector it's also a philanthropic institutions etc and of course we have used all the examples in Rome in Geneva even in New York even in Nairobi but at the end it is the membership of this organization who decides not only the management I know for sure perhaps in 10 years time that we are modernized but let's not wait for that because if it goes good then we still can benefit from it but let's not bet on one horse I give the floor thank you very much um my own issue which I suppose to make mention of the although you already said that we acknowledge FAO that we're doing a great work supporting the other issue is that we need to do a need assessment whereby we do a scout card of which country has the enable environment for the resources to be given just like somebody have said that a working group of that should continue on that on the identification of countries that is willing to support the activities we are doing that's first one that needs an assessment the second one just like you mentioned which you may not really support is the private sector initiatives there are some private sectors they are doing well industries they are doing well it also buzzes to the philanthropists are individuals that give to organization that's my own contribution thank you thank you very much no and I think it's a good suggestion because I think there we can cooperate we will we are building a new more interactive website where we can evolve you also in having ideas about which countries to in the short term to to approach for further further funding of activities of FAO and I think with the annual forum which we are now going to implement the three I would say aspirational activities which we are going to further develop I think we'll certainly show to governance and others that Gax has life in kicking and very much needed to be supported on the ground Ernie yeah just a point of clarification caution uh regarding Allison's suggestion of us participating in the cockpit and I'm not sure I know exactly what that means but for those that aren't familiar with the climate convention it is a separate UN body where member states as well as observer organizations accredited observer organizations are invited to participate and join a number of us are accredited observer organizations have standing in the cop so we as a member solutions from the land would not want to abdicate our position as a member of the climate convention if we were advocating in one way that might be not in alignment with another partner's way we could find ourselves in a in a complicated situation so I think Gax of participating in the cop as it relates to knowledge sharing demonstrating the importance of climate smart commitments and participation is perfectly logical but when you cross into Gaxa as a accredited entity that would be submitting recommendations and that's what you do in the cop you submit in response to invitations formal intervention papers that takes us to a place that we haven't been before where we've been negotiating language and text and positions so I think we just have to be careful when we say we're going to participate that we know what that means and for at least at this year I'm not sure how Gaxa could participate other than through FAO because you you have to have normal standing I chose my words carefully as it will be present at the cop there are enough negotiators I would say there are too many negotiators already at the cop because for many years they cannot find the solution yet but presence means that we can influence that we can have a side event as Gaxa highlighting the need what needs to be done on the ground not being another negotiator I would say if we can reduce the negotiates behalf we would have already had an agricultural agreement so don't see us as negotiators but being there with one or two or three side events influencing the work to be done and showing what can be done on the ground not only what is in words in text but on the ground I think that would be I think an advocacy role which fits to Gaxa without becoming part of the I would say the the mafia thank you thank you that clarification and with that I support the move for Gaxa to participate thank you so much any other remarks so so what we agreed is that we are going to work on the terms of reference which we certainly draft will be circulated to all members we're going to work on the conditions the coordination the funding and how it will work a timeline before the end of the year and how it can work out in practice that will come to you for further discussion in a strategic committee at the end of the year and then we take or there we take the next step hopefully towards the call hosting and in the meantime if everybody can we agree to that I see nothing Martin certainly agree to that one thing maybe to add because what we saw the resources available for this year but not a projection of what the costs would be for this year and I think that might be helpful particularly given the the ambitious presentations this morning that were I think really enriching on whether those are whether there's a costing included for that if you if you want to deliver on those three important areas of shark tank and the the e-learning what what costs are associated with that to have a sense of what 2023 could look like so so perhaps that that projection of this year might be helpful as well for consideration yes no it's excellent as we say in here within the FEO house those activities will be extra budgetary resource and it means of course that we already have funders in mind or already discussing with funders of those three projects that can be funded out of the costs of the facilitation unit because what you see is what we have as I said we can maintain our work with the facilitation until the end of the year with some extra activities but of course we cannot fund the shark tank because that we need or e-learning but that's why those presenters were sitting here because they will be part of the team also the funding team so with this hello justice yeah I wanted to add on from what Alice on it said what we need now is to to register our presence at national platforms and engage with our national negotiators at national level and at you know level we do the same at consensual like say in Africa we do the same because what we then need to do is to sell the deer what we are proposing we are we will be again profiling openly solutions or alternatives to say in terms of agriculture this is what God is offering to you right so that could help during negotiations we have to start a national level we have national alliances in Africa where we are then saying let's use those platforms to ensure that we can send down the message to those um maybe grassroots um I mean the farmers the negotiators the government policemakers you know and so on but what they need to be uh what we then need to do is as gas less strengthen the national alliances regional alliances that participation is very important some of these uh police formulations are platforms because if we don't like and participate in that level it's not level even if you know level you know sometimes it makes life difficult even for us as um leaders of I mean within the regional alliances you know to really uh make inroads we do not have the necessary support so what is needed now is we speak the same language the art of this I mean annual forum it has to really go down to say this is what we agreed during um the annual forum this is what we're going to do this is the way forward for for GACSA and its members and also the other thing that I wanted to find out is um World Bank represented what I remember uh World Bank used to participate during the annual forum so I don't know whether they're also part of the youth support um the initiatives I mean for GACSA I don't know how far how far I mean where I mean where that if they are present or they're not and maybe or not what actually went wrong with World Bank was also used to participate thank you I think we clearly had a way forward to now we work on the the co-hosting arrangement I think we have a clear decision on how we would like to have a presence at the COP but not being part of the negotiations and of course I leave it to every organization itself and I remember to influence the negotiators because I think that's the task of each of the organizations how to influence which uh I would say a negotiator I think that's not the task or the idea behind GACSA uh but showing what we need to do in the framework of sustainable agriculture and climate change is important and what can be done on the ground and that could enlighten negotiators to take the next step but as I said we clearly agree not to be part of the negotiation because that's for the negotiators and I don't want to prolong this discussion because otherwise we distract from uh and the program but also for the work of GACSA Allison if I just a really quick point if it would be feasible to get GACSA business cards that are nice looking and that each one of these people can have and also a lapel pin for GACSA because when you're at the COP but for me it's great but please provide also the funding I cannot make false promises I know with that respect we have at this moment we have limited resources the more funding you get we can get those those those are not expensive no but okay okay great idea we have written it down the more new furnace we find the more we can work on that with that I would like before closing the government session one thing is what we now and you have seen it already in the preparations and these two days is that we work a little bit more with the team and some kind of a management team of the three chairs the co-chairs of the action groups and the co-chairs to steer the work of the facilitation unit because there's so much to be done and it's way too much only for two simple persons like at least I speak for myself for an excellent person and a simple person like Dada and me to do on our own so but that's why we formed some kind of a management team setting where we on a monthly basis sit together to steer the work of the facilitation unit think what needs to be done for you via GACSA with that I would like now to turn to the last part of our two days of the animal forum and it would be great if Dada takes it from there and that's of course that's the last part that's the closing session okay well I wanted to start by honestly really appealing to your emotions and really letting you know that I'm very new to GACSA not very new somehow somewhere on the third or fourth year of GACSA the network that I helped developed in Southeast Asia was really featured as a model alliance and member of GACSA and so in that sense not new but as co-chair quite new so I wanted to express my gratitude to all the dedicated old members who have somehow lent me patience and a really warm welcome to this job and especially actually to hands for holding my hands and I haven't with COVID with the long distance with me being so far away from Rome and me actually being super involved with so many activities regionally and globally it has been quite hard for me to be with GACSA but being here today has really encouraged me and inspired me to bring the same passion that I bring to the region towards GACSA and my head is very much full of ideas of how we can move forward and I wanted to give a bit of promise that I'll be more present and you can count on my passion that I think people like Marcel has seen in me in global processes global climate policy processes and so yes I also would like to share some views that I have formed in the last two days you know when we are now thinking of agriculture beyond production but as part of the whole food system because we say that food system is going to be the more sustainable approach when we look at sustainable production amidst climate challenges we all see that the role of GACSA is to put all the pieces of the puzzles to help put the pieces of the puzzles together because food system and climate smart agriculture are actually all puzzles trying pieces of the puzzles trying to be set together and now if I yesterday highlighted one of the things that I have been advocating for in my work in my variety of work as a policy advocate as a climate finance expert as a network builder and this is that funding often overlooks if I'd mentioned funding often overlooks communication efforts or dissemination of information I would like to add that funding also often overlooks the kind of task that GACSA is doing and that is facilitation and coordination it's not sexy enough for funders right and that's why networks like us have been struggling to get this sort of funding coordination and coordination and facilitation are often seen as a piggyback task that doesn't need sole focus funding but actually it is very very essential especially in these times when there are multiple actors multiple interlink factors that needed focus and so weaving this thread together which is where I see GACSA contributing is is often overlooked but it is becoming more and more a full-time task and so I think we need to highlight these things we need to highlight and we need to build that this is the value additionality of an alliance a global alliance has right and this is what we need to sell to funders so I wanted to get also the the value that was mentioned earlier GACSA can bank on collaboration on investment and on nourishing I saw this presentation earlier by one of our members and I think that it is a good value to live by and I really hope that GACSA members can really abide by this we collaborate we invest not necessarily just finance but also our brain power our passion our charisma and we nourish our relationships lastly I would like to urge to urge the donors here I see the presence of USAID here hello you know we we can't always say that FAO cannot accept money from a private sector and I'm very happy that we have found a way to solve that issue but we're really urging the donors here and now who are here isn't it very exciting to hear the previous presentations on the shark tank on the compass fund and on capacity building initiatives these are actually as someone who really works on the ground with policymakers with network establishments with civil society organizations these are the kind of tools that are needed by our farmers at the moment and we hope actually this thinking that the remaining funds of GACSA no matter how little we hope that we can leverage it to attract other funders to attract bigger funding and so that is my call to the donors here in the room to consider that there are these previews the presentations earlier and it came from the sense of urgency and relevance they are really much needed and GACSA is really hoping to facilitate that and with your support I'm sorry to be looking at the direction of USAID Marcel I'm also looking at you hello Marcel really let's put the past aside and really look towards what we have presented today and it's really as a glass half full person it's really very positive and actually very exciting we've got the presence of the youth we've got women back businesses there is a very unique alliance where some of the alliances that I work with are merely based on a research base or policymaker base but there's nowhere like GACSA where the private sector really actively sits at the table together with policymakers and research organizations so I think before Hans turned off my microphone I would like to really thank everyone for coming and really please be patient with me but you've seen the successes in the other region and I really hope to bring that to the table for GACSA as well thank you thank you very much before we go to the real closing closing yeah at least to shut down all the microphones before I give the floor also to Frederica is anybody else who wants to reflect on these two days it's not necessary but you always have to do it I see none but I see happy faces and that's already very positive sorry you are the floor sir yeah first of all I'm so so happy on my behalf and my country and Africa we are so happy that you have the organizer thought so deeply to support us some people some of us to participate in this very important meeting and also to meet different people of different calibers secondly you have been I didn't want to come come to beauty but let me say let me contribute on participating in COP because I have been participating in COP more than 10 times but as you have said it is very good to participate especially in this idea event it doesn't because even when you you are not accredited or whatever you can participate secondly last year especially yeah last year COP COP COP COP of last year 27 there was a lot of pressure and so that agriculture generally agriculture is recognized and I assure you that the COP have started recognizing agriculture and putting agriculture on top of other other things it has been they have been talking about it as business as usual but now if we also add pressure you notice like adding pressure notice not a real pressure but it is also like adding pressure then last but not least I would request that the work of global alliance for climate smart agriculture to be to be seen and be appreciated we should try as much as possible to bring people to the grass root on board because now even the funders they are no longer funding they are funding action and the funders are tired of funding words and so forth but they want action and the people who are doing most of the action at the ground yes I know everybody would ask what action but as we are talking about climate change as we are talking about food insecurity and so many other things if you don't act the real action whether the the policies the good the good thing the policies are there we are just adding oh we are just trying to twist like the way how now when we when we are talking about sustainable sustainable food system the system is there but the way how we all of us talk about the agroecology this is also something climate smart agriculture in testification and so forth all of them are aiming at the same goal but now I'm just requesting that whoever goes not only to today the global alliance but even at home from grass root national and international then that is talked about to funding I think it also to help us also attract funding and for us people at the grass root as I said we have actions so we have activities whereby if you capture them you some researchers you are here and the the journalist you can also put write about them and then even the can attract the funder say this is a very good action that's what I wanted to comment on that but thank you so much for allowing us to also participate in this meeting on behalf of the smallholder farmers thank you very much thank you very much we have to thank some people first of all but I'll come back to you later we have to thank Préderica and Valentina the new felicitations units who pulled it off in a short term but I always say never waste a good crisis they did marvelously with a smile always on top of things thank you so so much and of course the team is sitting over there but I would also like to thank the support team of the internet the IVN the international aquifood network the support team also doing the social media the support team making sure that we are not only in the room we are not in the virtual room but we're all out of there the universe and I think it shows that a little bit of the cooperation has already started thank you so much IVN then I have to thank you sorry Marcel and thanks to the translators I was not there yet because I was going to thank at the end but I'm doing now because the interpreters the technicians and certainly also the messenger for being with us these two days because without them we would not be sitting here because it would be dark it would be too warm or too cold without those days thank you so much but I would like to thank you all both here in person as well virtually because you made this animal form inspirational form we listened to each other and we showed we are now nine years as Gaxa nine years on the road and we showed again that Gaxa global lines of climate smart deco agriculture is live and kicking more than ever and it's because of the members that's because of the multi stakeholder approach that but it's because of you in person we're going to our 10th anniversary next year and of course we stand ready for offers of organizations or governments which would like to host the 10th anniversary of Gaxa so send us your offers but before closing our problems Frederick had to give her the floor sorry just two minutes I would like to thank all the ladies who worked to help the realization of these two days please stand up I want to start with the administrative support Simona Caffolla and Nelty Brito Moreno all the audiovisual messengers badge everything we had because they worked very hard let me thank also Gaia and Elena the two new interns in the facilitation unit and let me thank also Sierra and the grade because they were the new the intern of another colleague in FAO and they joined for one week two weeks the facilitation unit and Phoebe from IFN for the social media Maria Guardia was the graphic designer for all the cards in internet social media and and of course last but not least my friend Valentina Vitalis for all their support I would like to thank all of them thank you thank you very much on behalf of that uh every good thing comes affordly to an end but we had an inspirational annual forum we are strong here we are strong out there after more than nine years the message is still clear but let's remember the grass wood for those we have to do it for those 860 million people living in hunger only if we deliver we can change and change can only be brought by people you we are the agents of change the agents for climate smart agriculture leaving nobody behind thank you so much this annual forum is closed