Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Friday, July 1, 2022

Upcoming events and webinars July

1 July 2022. 3-4pm (BST). Enhanced Direct Access to climate finance: "I wish I knew that at the start!"


5 July 2022 at 11:00 GMT. IRC second eConsultation. By Leap4FNSSA

6 July 2022. Agri-SME finance: Navigating volatility in the wake of the war in Ukraine

6 July 2022 - 12:00-14:00 GMT. Successes in exporting to the EU markets from SMEs and entrepreneurs by ColeACP/PAFO


7 July 2022. 5 - 8:30 PM East Africa Time Africa Union Year of Nutrition and Food Security launching event
  • Presentation of The Ethiopian Food Systems transformation road map
  • Theme: Utilize the 2022 Africa Union Year of Nutrition to Show-case the Seqota Declaration and galvanize continental efforts in expanding successful government efforts towards ending stunting in Africa.
  • The event will be attended by high level government officials, Ambassadors, high level leaders from FNS implementing sectors, Donors, UN, CSO and academia.

7 July 2022. at 11a.m. Pacific Time (that’s 7p.m. UK time). How to Accelerate Soil & Ecosystem Restoration  Webinar 1 by Soil Food Web
  • Dr Elaine Ingham will be joined by persons working on Ecosystem Restoration projects
  • Webinar 2: Ecosystem Restoration Examples, will feature 2 exciting presentations by Ecosystem Restoration Camps from different parts of the world. Dr Elaine Ingham will also be on the panel on Friday, July 15, 2022 at 11a.m. Pacific Time (that’s 7p.m. UK time).
  • Webinar 3: Saving our Soils and Ecosystems, this is the MAIN EVENT, with Sadhguru, John D. Liu and Dr. Elaine Ingham. Live on Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 10a.m. Pacific Time (that’s 6p.m. UK time).
  • Webinar 4: How you can impact your Ecosystem - Careers in Ecosystem Restoration and Regenerative Ag, with Renald Flores of Florès.Sens System, Keisha Wheeler and Casey Ernst of Catalyst BioAmendments, and Brian Vagg of Sprouting Soil on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 11a.m. Pacific Time (that’s 7p.m. UK time).
  • This Academy is being built with the contribution of the Government of Germany through KfW and Government of Andhra Pradesh in collaboration.
  •  will be live from 10 am (IST)
12 July |10:00 - 12:30 pm SAST. Investment Opportunities in Africa’s Urban Food Systems: Matchmaking Opportunities with Funders. Register Here 


  • The workshop will be held in a hybrid format. The physical meeting is in Brussels, Belgium.
  • The workshop will create awareness on the International Research Consortium (IRC), the LEAP4FNSSA platform which will be launched in September 2022. 
  • The IRC will serve as a bi-continental platform to advance FNSSA, create synergies between the many Research and Innovation (R&I) programmes, initiatives, and actors from both Europe and Africa. It will provide information on prospective partners, funding opportunities, and innovations that have worked in FNSSA.

14 July 2022. The role of champion farmers and encouraging innovation amongst farmers By AFSA Meeting ID: 890 8066 2974 Passcode: 424091


14 July | 10:00 - 12:00 pm SAST. On the Road to Recovery: “Nourishing our Cities Towards Equitable Recovery

14 – 16 July 2022. Post-Viçosa Sympo Action Plan, at University of Lagos 

  • Launch of the Food Prices for Nutrition DataHub, hosted at the World Bank
  • Co-organized by the World Bank, Tufts, IFPRI, and FAO
  • IFPRI Policy seminar, co-organized by Tufts, the World Bank, and FAO

15 July 2022.11:00am West Africa Time (WAT). Innovation in Aquaponics/Aquaculture for Sub-Saharan Africa

15 July 2022. at 11a.m. Pacific Time (that’s 7p.m. UK time). Ecosystem Restoration Examples,
  • This webinar will feature 2 exciting presentations by Ecosystem Restoration Camps from different parts of the world. 
  • Dr Elaine Ingham will be on the panel 
Session I at 10:00 East Africa Time   
Session II at 14:00h East Africa Time
  • Currently, the main geothermal agri-food applications in the region include drying of food, and heating of greenhouses and aquaculture facilities. 
  • With increased support in areas such as geothermal resource mapping, establishment of enabling policies and regulations, access to financing, and capacity building, more significant progress can be achieved. 
19 July 2022. Webinaire sur l’institutionnalisation des champs-écoles des producteurs en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre.
  • By: Réseau Régional des CEP en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre - R-CEP-AOC. Mot de passe: 22448418

21 July | 10:00 - 12:30 pm SAST. City-to-City Exchange: Streamlining Multi-level Food Systems Governance between National and Local Level. Register Here 

21 July 2022. at 3 p.m. (CEST), Healthy school food environments. Seeking policy and technical coherence”. by FAO and WFP



21 July 2022. at 11a.m. Pacific Time (that’s 7p.m. UK time). Saving our Soils and Ecosystems
  • this is the MAIN EVENT of the Soil Food Web, with Sadhguru, John D. Liu and Dr. Elaine Ingham.
25 July 2022. @15:30 Central European Summer Time (CEST) Seminar, Addressing the global food security crisis: Strengthening research and policy responses by IFPRI/GIZ

  • In support of the AU’s 2022 Year of Nutrition, AKADEMIYA2063 and the Senegalese National Council for Nutrition Development (CNDN) organize a series of continental level dialogues on nutrition and food security with a broad group of stakeholders
  • This includes policymakers, civil society organizations, farmers’ organizations, research institutions, the private sector, and development partners, to facilitate knowledge exchange, mutual learning, and drive necessary action toward achieving continental and global food security and nutrition targets.

  • Meeting ID: 827 3253 4906 Passcode: 281425
  • Organised by the Zimbabwe Traditional and Organic Food and Seed festival will be holding its next online session on July 26th in its lead up to the district festivals and the Harare festival. 
  • This session will be at 4pm Southern African time (5pm EAT, 2pm West Africa/GMT). 
  • In this session we will learn from Quetzalcoatl Orozco about Biodiversity fairs in Mexico organised in various places around Mexico in collaboration with the Mexican Biodiversity Institute, CONABIO (https://www.gob.mx/conabio/en)
27 July 2022. @3:30 PM Central European Summer Time The Importance of Timely Analyses for Decision-Making during a Period of Crisis
  • The event, will feature interventions from IFPRI, the International Fertilizer Development Center, and AKADEMIYA2063
  • By Agrilinks and IFPRI
27 July 2022, 14:00 CET; 15:00 EAT Application of FAOSTAT for research and decision making

28 July 2022. at 11a.m. Pacific Time (that’s 7p.m. UK time). How you can impact your Ecosystem  
  • Careers in Ecosystem Restoration and Regenerative Ag
  • with Renald Flores of Florès.Sens System, Keisha Wheeler and Casey Ernst of Catalyst BioAmendments, and Brian Vagg of Sprouting Soil on Thursday,


31 July 2022. Deadline Expression of interest for Side Events FAO Science and Innovation Forum (17-21 October 2022)

14-20 August 2022. 31st International Horticultural Congress, IHC2022, Angers, France

Meeting ID: 817 8665 7380 Passcode: 705009


18 August 2022. 09:00 AM Universal Time UTC

19 August 2022 @ 1:00 p.m. GMT. Risk Assessment Approaches for Food Safety 



  • "Livestock investments to transform and scale One Health.”
  •  This brief recommends 18 livestock-related policies and actions that can improve the health of people, animals and environments through One Health approaches. The actions recommended here, with their multiple cross-sector benefits, emerged from a 2021 investigation by ILRI of One Health challenges in the world’s LMIC that are best addressed through interventions in the livestock sector. 
  •  You can find the brief and related assets here: https://whylivestockmatter.org/invest-in-one-health 

  • Hermetic Bags, Wheat Flour Milling, Precooked Beans, FAW, Aflasafe, Deep Urea Placement, Rice Thresher and Polisher, Cassava SAH Multiplication, Cassava Seed Bulking Farm)
23 August - 1 September 2022. World Water Week




30 August 2022. 9:00-11:00 in Rome (CET), 15:00-17:00 in Beijing Action Research Towards Agroecological Transitions - Set Off Webinar by CGIAR


31st August 2022 03:00 - 04:00 PM EAT. Pan Africa Bean Research
  •  RSIF will host Dr Boaz Waswa, Senior Scientist- Soil Fertility at CIAT-Pan Africa Bean Research for the 26th RSIF Guest Webinar Series
  • RUFORUM Network is proposing a half day dialogue /webinar to review and develop a roadmap towards actioning university and research institutions contribution towards strengthening Africa’s Food Systems. 
  • The dialogue will bring together Universities, Research Institutions, the FAO and the African Union Commission.


 1 September from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CDT. Iowa Hunger Summit, Our Paths to Zero
  • 11:00 a.m. Banking on the Future - The Future of Emergency Food Aid
  • The AGRF, Africa’s premier forum for driving the food and agriculture agenda in the continent 
9 - 11 September 2022. Agroecology Europe Youth Forum

12-13 September 2022. “4th Edition of Euro-Global Conference on Food Science and Technology” (FAT 2022) virtually and in Paris, France.
  • The congress underlines the theme “Harnessing the Latest Innovations and Laying Foreground for Future of Food Science and Technology.”



13-30 September 2022. Science Summit at United Nation General Assembly


14-16 September 2022. Biennial CSA stakeholders conference. By FARA
  • This year's conference will be a hybrid conference, Physical & Virtual, in Accra, Ghana.


3-6 October 2022 | Conference 2022 - Space for Food Security: On the Right Track by Netherlands Food Platform

6-9 October 2022 XIII International Agriculture Symposium “AGROSYM 2022” Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

12 October 2022 - Dutch World Food Day celebration event by Netherlands Food Partnership. Amsterdam will focus on the Climate and Food Systems nexus.

  •  with the final workshops of the Proli-GEAFaSa and SULCI-FaNS projects
  • face-to-face, possibly with some virtual sessions
  • The FAO Science and Innovation Forum will focus on highlighting the centrality of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for agrifood systems transformation, and encourage a diversity of perspectives based on science and innovation, thereby facilitating rationalization and inclusiveness of debate. The FAO Science and Innovation Forum will be organized together with the World Food Forum (WFF) and Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum in the week of 17th October 2022.
  • The Science and Innovation Forum will take place over 5 days and provide different stakeholders, in particular from low and middle-income countries (LMICs), the space and opportunity to take stock of the science and evidence base and gaps, engage in dialogues and share experiences around science-based actions and innovative solutions. Roundtables, panel discussions, and various interactive formats will be utilized.
  • Expression of interest for Side Events by 31 July 2022


1-2 November 2022. Amsterdam. Sustainable Landscapes and Commodities Forum 

1-3 November 2022. AWindhoek, Namibia. 9th ReNAPRI stakeholders annual conference

7-18 November 2022. UN COP27: Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt


November 2022. OECD Meeting of Agriculture Ministers on “Building Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in a Changing Environment: Shared Challenges, Transformative Solution”.

  • NWO will organize a fully online final conference for the NL-CGIAR research programme. 
  • Two mornings (CET) full of thematic sessions, interviews, keynotes, a poster session and much more. All on one online platform. 
  • The NL– CGIAR research programme is part of a cooperation agreement (2017-2022) between the government of the Netherlands and the CGIAR, the global research partnership for a food secure future. The programme consists of three partnership instruments. See also www.nwo.nl/cgiar.
30 November 2022 | SeedNL - Seed Sector Development: Public-Private Partnerships for Change by Netherlands Food Platform

June 2023 in Durban South Africa.  African Agribusiness and Science week 
  • The event will also feature the engagement of the global bodies – Global Forum for Agricultural Research, Young Professional in Agricultural Research for Development, etc
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