Discussion sessions will be devoted to a range of topics including: metrics of adaptation, mitigation and food security; uncertainties and risks; synergies and tradeoffs; economics and low hanging fruits; barriers, drivers and incentives. The conference will be organized around plenary sessions and parallel sessions covering a wide range of disciplines and topics. Particular emphasis will be placed on sessions that mix disciplinary perspectives and on solution-oriented sessions showing how to develop climate smart agriculture in a range of regional contexts and of agriculture and food systems.