8:45 am – 10:30 am: Opening plenary session (Moderator: Lovell Jarvis, UC, Davis), Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts Lovell Jarvis, Chair, Conference Organizing Committee (UC Davis): Introduction to the Conference Linda Katehi (Chancellor, UC Davis): Welcome to UC Davis Thomas Vilsack (Secretary of Agriculture, USDA): Climate Change and US Agriculture (Video presentation) Mary Nichols (Chair, California Air Resources Board): California’s pioneering climate change policies Erik Fernandes (Adviser, Agriculture and Rural Development, The World Bank): Overview of World Bank achievements, plans and initiatives for climate change and its interface with science partners Leslie Lipper (Senior Environmental Economist/ EPIC Programme Director): FAO work to support CSA: bridging the research/policy divide Tina Monica Joemat-Pettersson (Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa): Climate change and small-holder farms in South Africa (Video presentation). March 20, 2013