The Third Global Scientific Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is the result of a Netherlands-led initiative aimed at simultaneously addressing the themes of agriculture, food security and climate change. The Conference will continue the work of the first and second conferences, held in Wageningen, the Netherlands, in 2011, and Davis, California, US, in 2013. The initiative has structured its work around two parallel processes: one to address the science of CSA and the other to focus on policy. The conference, which will focus on vulnerable countries and populations, filling research gaps and closing the science-policy divide, will be an opportunity for researchers to update knowledge of CSA and make recommendations to policymakers. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the CGIAR Consortium are among the conference organizers.  

dates: 16-18 March 2015  
venue: Le Corum, Esplanade Charles De Gaulle, 34000  
location: Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France  
contact: Agropolis International  
phone: +33 (0)4 67 04 75 75  
fax: +33 (0)4 67 04 75 99  
e-mail: csa2015.montpellier@agropolis.fr  
www: http://csa2015.cirad.fr/index.php/csa2015
 http://www.cifor.org/event/climate-smart-agriculture-2015/