The Corps des Ingénieurs des Ponts,des Eaux et des Forêts is a technical Grand Corps of the French State. Its members,called ingénieurs des ponts,des eaux et des forêts,are senior civil servants and top-level engineers,mainly employed by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and by the French Ministry of Agriculture,but they can also work for every French Ministries,public establishments,or public compagnies. Thanks to its history and its selective recruitment policy,the Corps des IPEF enjoys considerable prestige within France's senior civil services,as the Corps des mines and the Corps de l'armement.
CGIAR is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security. CGIAR research aims to reduce rural poverty,increase food security,improve human health and nutrition,and sustainable management of natural resources.
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture is an international research and development organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger while protecting natural resources in developing countries. It is based in Palmira,Colombia,where it employs over 300 scientists.
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit scientific research organization that conducts research on the use and management of forests with a focus on tropical forests in developing countries. CIFOR,which merged with World Agroforestry on Jan. 1,2019,is the forestry and agroforestry research center of CGIAR,a network of 15 research centers around the world that focus on agricultural research for sustainable development,working closely with governments and other partners to help develop evidence-based solutions to problems related to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management.
Agricultural biodiversity or agrobiodiversity is a subset of general biodiversity pertaining to agriculture. It can be defined as "the variety and variability of animals,plants and micro-organisms at the genetic,species and ecosystem levels that sustain the ecosystem structures,functions and processes in and around production systems,and that provide food and non-food agricultural products.”It is managed by farmers,pastoralists,fishers and forest dwellers,agrobiodiversity provides stability,adaptability and resilience and constitutes a key element of the livelihood strategies of rural communities throughout the world. Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable food systems and sustainable diets. The use of agricultural biodiversity can contribute to food security,nutrition security,and livelihood security,and it is critical for climate adaptation and climate mitigation.
Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization that delivers scientific evidence,management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain global food- and nutrition security,working with partners in low-income countries in different regions where agricultural biodiversity can contribute to improved nutrition,resilience,productivity and climate change adaptation. In 2019,Bioversity International joined with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture to "deliver research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people's lives". Both institutions are members of the CGIAR,a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
Julia Marton-Lefèvre is a French - US environmentalist and academic. She studied history,ecology and environmental planning in the US and in France,and was born in Hungary.
Thierry de Montbrial is the executive chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri),which he founded in 1979. He is also the founder and chairman of the World Policy Conference (WPC),which he created in 2008. He has been a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences since 1992. He is an honorary member of numerous foreign academies.
Forest genetic resources or foresttree genetic resources are genetic resources of forest shrub and tree species. Forest genetic resources are essential for forest-depending communities who rely for a substantial part of their livelihoods on timber and non-timber forest products for food security,domestic use and income generation. These resources are also the basis for large-scale wood production in planted forests to satisfy the worldwide need for timber and paper. Genetic resources of several important timber,fruit and other non-timber tree species are conserved ex situ in genebanks or maintained in field collections. Nevertheless,in situ conservation in forests and on farms is in the case of most tree species the most important measure to protect their genetic resources.
Émilie Laurence Tubiana is a French economist,professor and diplomat. She served as France's Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for the 2015 COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris,for which she became recognised as a key architect of the resulting Paris Agreement. Since 2017,she has been CEO of the European Climate Foundation.
The École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse is a French public and national Grande Ecole in agricultural and life sciences,funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and member of Toulouse Tech. The ENSAT is a school of the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT),a university federating several schools dealing with engineering,agriculture and veterinary sciences,chemistry,meteorology.
UniverSud Paris was one of the PRES in France. It gathered 21 public universities,Grandes Écoles and National Research Center,covering nearly the whole spectrum of sciences,until its dissolution in 2014.
Lindiwe Sibanda Majele(born 1963) is a Zimbabwean professor,scientist,policy advocate and influencer on food systems. She currently serves as director and chair of the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (ARUA-SFS) at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria,South Africa as well as founder and managing director of Linds Agricultural Services Pvt Ltd. in Harare,Zimbabwe. She is currently a board member of Nestléwhere she is also a member of the Sustainability Committee.
UniLaSalle is one of the 210 French engineering schools authorized to award engineering degrees. It was created following the merger of ESITPA and LaSalle Beauvais. UniLaSalle is a private higher education establishment offering integrated degree programs. It has two campuses,one in Beauvais and the other in Rouen. It offers three- or five-year degree programs,including engineering degrees in the fields of agriculture,the food industry,food and health,environmental studies and geology. It also offers continuing education and short programs in these fields. It is a non-profit organization created under the 1901 Act. On 7 July 2016 UniLaSalle was officially recognized as an EESPIG.
Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle is a French agricultural engineer. Ministerial Delegate to the Minister of Agriculture and Food since July 2018. Between 2013 and 2018 she was Under Secretary of State for the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
The Citizens Convention for Climate is a citizens' assembly held in 2019 and 2020 which discussed reducing France's carbon emissions by 40% from its 1990 levels in a spirit of social justice. It was initiated in response to the Yellow Vest protests to the fuel tax. The convention was modeled after a number of other deliberative experiments known as deliberative mini-publics. The members of the convention were 150 randomly selected citizens designed to be representative of the French public across six demographic dimensions:gender,age,socio-economic background,education level,location type,and province. The convention was assisted by a number of committees including the governance committee,a team of experts who provided organizational guidance and assistance,a guarantor college,which maintained the convention's independence,and a legal board. The members themselves divided into working groups on five issues within the topic of climate change:food,housing,employment,transportation,and consumption.
Ann Tutwiler is a Senior Fellow with Meridian Institute and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Food Forward Consortium and formerly was the senior advisor to the Just Rural Transition. She also chairs the Expert Review Committee for the Food and Agriculture Benchmark for the World Benchmarking Alliance. Previously,she was the Director General of Bioversity International from July 2013 to February 2019 and the first woman Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from January 2011 to November 2012. In 2022,she has been awarded the John Knox Batten Teaching Fellowship in Public Policy at Davidson College in North Carolina where she taught two undergraduate classes in food systems transformation.
Céline Guivarch is a French climate scientist modelling the impact of climate change from a multidisciplinary perspective and how to limit it. She is a research director at École des Ponts ParisTech. She is a member of the French High Council on Climate and a lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
Jessica Fanzo is an American scientist. She is a Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative at the Columbia Climate School. Prior to joining Columbia in July 2023,she was the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics,the Bloomberg School of Public Health,and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. She was the first laureate of the Carasso Foundation’s Sustainable Diets Prize in 2012 for her research on sustainable food and diets for long-term human health. In 2024,Fanzo was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Geoffrey Hawtin OBE is an agricultural scientist and World Food Prize laureate who has served in public institutions working in agricultural biodiversity,plant genetic resources,crop breeding and research management. He was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II and has been recognized for his career "dedicated to using agriculture as a weapon in the war against poverty in developing countries." He played key roles in the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the negotiation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources. He has headed two CGIAR Research Centers and currently is on the Executive Board of the Crop Trust.
