Upcoming events on agriculture in Africa and research

Update 07/09

Update 18/09

4 September. 2Scale Online Bootcamp Building your Inclusive Agribusiness. 4 interrelated modules that you can follow at your own convenience over a 4-week period.

4-8 September. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. African Green Revolution Forum 2017

5 September. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Launch Montpellier Panel report

5 September. WorldBank Webinar. Transforming Aquaculture with IoT

5 September. Utrecht. Kick Off! CoP Youth in Agribusiness. The AgriProFocus network, in close collaboration with the F&BKP

6 September. Nebraska. Food Dialogues Nebraska: Pivoting the GMO Conversation

6-8 September. Cape Town, South Africa. SA Innovation Summit

7-8 September. Johannesburg. Urban Agri Summit 2017

10 September. Townsville, Australia. 8^th GFRAS Annual Meeting

11-14 September. Ghent Belgium. 1st MYCOKEY International Conference

12 September. GFAR webinar on "Comms success stories"

13 September. Copenhagen. Denmark. Europe-Africa cooperation in science, technology and innovation (STI). CAAST-Net Plus partner UNEP DTU Partnership

13 September. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. CFS. Forum on Support to Food Security and Nutrition in Ethiopia by Increasing Smallholders’ Access to Markets

14-15 September. Uganda. Muyonyo Speke Resort Hotel. EAFF/East African Farmer Federation Congress organizing small holder farmers to harness new investments; partnerships & innovations to enhance value chain ownership, productivity & market integration + side event PAEPARD: Linking research to application within the extensive livestock value chain after PAEPARD.
14 September. Making data talk: Reflecting on IFPRI's experiences in data visualization

19 September. GFAR webinar on Farmers' Rights

20-21 September. Uppsala Sweden. Agri4D - 2017 - Rural Transformation and Urbanization
18-24 September. New York. Climate Week.

19-22 September. Bonn, Germany. Tropentag 2017

20 September. Rome. CFS. Forum on Support to Food Security and Nutrition in West Africa by Increasing Smallholders’ Access to Markets

21 September. Webinar. Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Youth Webinar

22 September. Rome. CFS. Achieving the 2025 Global Target for Stunting: Investing in Food Systems to Prevent Stunting

25 September. Rome. FAO. Forum on Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition

26-28 September. Dar es Salaam. 2nd East African business & entrepreneurship conference

26-28 September. Geneva. WTO 2017 Public Forum. Including a session 27/09 on Agricultural trade in the new era: the relevance of agribusiness and agroindustry.

27-28 September. Nairobi. 5^th Africa Food Security Conference 2017

25 Sept – 13 October. Wageningen, the Netherlands. Course: 'Facing rural innovation challenges - Linking research to inclusive development for food security'

2-4 October. Cape Town / (TBC) and Pretoria. The Research Fairness Initiative (RFI)

2-5 October. Cotonou, Benin. PAEPARD capitalization workshop

4-5 October. Kigali, Rwanda. Poultry Africa 2017

5 October – 7 October. Dar es Salaam. 7th African Grain Trade Summit (AGTS)

9 October. Nairobi. Aflanet one day workshop

8-11 October. Cape Town, South Africa. 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security

8-12 October. Brussels. The Youth Ag- Summit

9-13 October. Rome. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

9-11 October. Maputo, Mozambique. The East and Southern Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness Conference

10 – 11 October. Brussels. Senior Official Meeting of the EU AU R&I partnership (HLPD); a meeting of the FNSSA Roadmap

11-12 October. Lisbon. Agri-Innovation summit Lisbon 2017

16 October. Brussels. Harnessing Research and Innovation for FOOD 2030

16-18 October. Nairobi, Kenya. Symposium on Climate Change and Droughts Resilience in Africa

16-19 October. Accra, Ghana. Communication for Development Training. FAO) with the technical collaboration of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)  
17-18 October. Brussels. EU-Africa High Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation

17-20 October. Addis Ababa. Global Green Growth Week 2017

18-20 October. Des Moines. The World Food prize, 2017 Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium

19 October. Brussels, Belgium. The High Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) stakeholder meeting

23 - 25 October. Brussels, Belgium. International Conference 'Sustainable Energy for Africa'

23 October – 3 November. Johannesburg. Local economic development: towards agribusiness cluster dev

7 November. Utrecht. Incubating Agribusiness in Africa. 2SCALE will share five years of experience in agribusiness

8-9 November. Cali, Columbia. CIAT 50th Anniversary Celebration

13 November. Paris. Research for nutrition Conference. Action contre la Faim.

13 - 24 November. Ibadan, Nigeria. ICRA course:  Building agribusiness relations for sustainable profit – Learning key skills for inclusive business brokerage

13-24 November. Wageningen. International course “Making Agriculture Work for Food and Nutrition Security”

14-17 November. Brussels. Info Week on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2  (SC2) ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’.  Co-organised by the Research Executive Agency (REA), the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) and the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) of the European Commission.

14-17 November. Addis Ababa. Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA-2017)

15-17 November. Johannesburg.  13th African Dairy Conference

15-17 November. Brussels. Organic innovation days

18 November. Brussels. Information Day for National Contact Points H2020

20 - 22 November 2017. Cape Town. African Agri Investment Indaba
20 - 22 November 2017. Cotonou, Benin. Afri-Veg Forum 2017

22-24 November 2017. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. AU Conference Centre. Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa 

28 – 30 November. Johannesburg. 4^th Global Science Conference On Climate Smart Agriculture

28-29 November. Abidjan. Summit of Head of States from EU and Africa

29-30 November. Kampala. Agribusiness Congress East Africa

3-6 December. Cape Town, South Africa. 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security

4-5 December, Madrid, Spain. International Summit on Organic Farming 2017

4-5 December. Milano, Italy. 8th International Forum on Food and Nutrition

19-20 December. Bonn. Global Landscapes Forum