Food, Water and Biodiversity Nexus - Trade-offs & Interventions
Tracks
Food, Water and Biodiversity Nexus
| Monday, October 13, 2025 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM |
| Conway 2 |
Speaker
Monica Borrero
UNDP AFCIA
Scaling Innovation and Technology Transfer for Climate Adaptation: Insights from the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA)
4:00 PM - 4:35 PMBiography
Monica is the Global Programme Manager for UNDP- AFCIA, leading efforts to support locally-led adaptation solutions. With 15 years of experience in the implementation and management of sustainable development programmes at the international, regional and national level, in different UN organizations, NGOs and in the consulting sector.
Dr Elizabeth Keller
Senior Scientist
GNS Science
Synergies and trade-offs between carbon sequestration, water resource management and economic returns in a changing climate
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Liz Keller is a carbon cycle and earth system modeller at GNS Science and Victoria University of Wellington. With a background in physics, her current research interests include carbon cycle dynamics and the interactions and feedbacks with the hydrological cycle.
Dr Chukwuma Ume
University of Nigeria
Strengthening climate-resilient local economies: the role of nested and barter markets in agroecological food systems
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Chukwuma Ume is a lecturer in the department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nigeria. He has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Justus Liebig University, Germany. MSc in Environmnet and Development from the Sustianability Research Institute, University of Leeds.
Dr Gen Sakurai
Principal Research Fellow
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Towards More Adaptive Crop Selection: Analysis of Yield Data for 67 Crops in Japan
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Dr. Gen Sakurai is a principal research fellow at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. The works focus on the statistical analysis of the relationship between climate and crop productivity and the development of mathematical models for agricultural fields such as plant physiology and crop productivity.
Mr Quiven Ebicha
Climate Innovation Lead & Business Developer - Mozambique
Solidaridad Southern Africa
Financing resilience for southern Africa’s small-scale farmers: an urgent call for climate action
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Quiven Ebicha has four years of experience working with Solidaridad Southern Africa focusing on issues related to climate change adaptation, mitigation, resilience & good management of natural resources. Also focuses in searching for new business opportunities & lead generation.
Ms Elnaz Javadi
PhD Candidate
Monash University
Creating long-term adaptation in coastal peri-urban regions through small-scale, design-based interventions
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Elnaz Javadi, PhD candidate at Monash Art, Design and Architecture has worked in landscape architecture and architecture with the expertise in waterscape design. Her research interests focus on urban landscapes, flood management, and coastal adaptation strategies through transdisciplinary design approaches.
Dr Muhammad Mumtaz
Assistant Professor
Fatima Jinnah Women University
Climate adaptation governance for the agriculture sector: a case from Punjab province of Pakistan
5:15 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Dr. Muhammad Mumtaz is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He has written over 35 research articles and book chapters in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 40 newspaper articles on diverse issues in Pakistan and elsewhere.
