Break-out session 1: Group 1 Chair: Ekosse, Georges-Ivo. Rapporteur: Berefo, Eric Transition Team member: Hackmann, Heide Participants:  Abiodun, Babatunde  Amoussougbo, Thierry  Hachigonta, Sepo  Kaniki, Andrew  Kinuthia-Njenga, Cecilia  Kotecha, Piyushi  Leluma, Matooane  Massaquoi, Joseph  Mvondo, Samuel Assembe  Vogel, Coleen

Future Earth Research Theme: Global Development Providing the knowledge for sustainable, secure and fair stewardship of food, water, health, energy, materials and other ecosystem services.

Future Earth Research Theme: Dynamic Planet Observing, explaining, projecting Earth and societal system trends, drivers and processes, and their interactions; anticipating global thresholds.

Future Earth Research Theme: Transformation towards Sustainability Understanding and evaluating strategies for governing and managing the global environment across scales and sectors, to move towards a sustainable Future Earth.

1. Research priorities relevant for Africa that can be linked to / integrated within the Future Earth research framework  Indicator index (country-based)  Ecosystem based adaptation  Africa green economy  Sustainable energy development  Sustainable consumption and production  Integrated waste management  Sustainable land-management and desertification  Poverty and livelihoods  Biodiversity and ecosystems  Capacity building and technology transfers  Skills development  Data collection for purpose of monitoring various environmental components in the region (fresh water, ocean, forest, soil etc.)- Footprint indicator

Research priorities relevant for Africa that can be linked to / integrated within the Future Earth research framework (Continuation)  Food security  Mitigation measures- climate change  Impact of emerging economies on biodiversity loss and land-use conflicts  Use of indigenous and local knowledge in resource management  Identifying and evaluating baseline data  Success stories of transformative action and up scaling these (local to regional)  Research of future architecture for new organisation required  Thinking outside the box  Translating research findings to commercialising products that benefit African communities

2. On-going regional activities / programmes, already dealing with these priorities. Gaps not being addressed  CLIMDEV  ACPC  Dialogues and platforms  African forest forum  Central African forest commission (COMIFAC)  Mapping existing programmes and initiatives and identifying the gaps  Networking research activities at universities to prevent duplication  Creating platforms between policy-makers and researchers  Dissemination and communication of research  African Environment Outlook  Enhancing ICT use and practice

3. Opportunities for collaboration between Future Earth and existing regional activities  African academy of sciences-Human resource capacity  African network of scientific and technological institution  What is the added value of collaborating with future earth?- Spreading the message  ACPC and CLIMDEV- Africa- Implement research aspect  Platform whereby most information generated can be taken closer to policy makers