Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Monday, February 27, 2023

Upcoming events and webinars March 2023

26-27 February 2023. Second session of the fourth Africa Climate Talks in Niamey
  • organised by the AU Commission (AUC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) 
  • focus on a just and equitable transition and human security in Africa.
27 February - 2 March 2023. ECA, the AUC, the AfDB and the government of Niger are hosting the 2023 Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in Niamey.

27 February 2023. Horizon Europe South African National Contact Points’ Network Announcement & Presentation of Work Programme 2023-2024 and its Africa Initiative II – Focus on South Africa

28 February 2023, 13:00-14:30 CET/15:00-16:30 EAT. Harnessing Technology in the Circular Economy for Climate Action in Africa

1 March 2023. FAO Webinar on sustainable mechanization 

1 - 2 March 2023. The Sankalp Africa Summit
  • This is an event that catalyzes collaborations across the entrepreneurial ecosystem in order to solve global challenges sustainably.
  • 01/03 Scaling Up Regenerative Agriculture: a Social Entrepreneur's Perspective
  • 01/03 It takes a digital village to improve smallholders’ productivity and resilience.
  • 01/03 Scaling SMEs to strengthen African food system – making it affordable, nutritious and accessible
  • 01/03 What is the real cost of food security?
  • 02/03 Is GMO the answer to food security for sub-Saharan Africa?
1 March at 3pm CET. Can higher education better meet the needs of rural agricultural communities?
GFAR Talks
  • Jim French of GCHERA and Vincent Mariadho of PROLINNOVA with moderation by Sayed Azam-Ali.


2 March 2023. Introduction to USAID's Research Translation Toolkit
  • WEBINAR 3 | Capturing Attention: How to Use the Communication Products Section
  • The USAID Research Division and USAID's Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC) invites USAID staff and partners to a four-part webinar series that provides an overview of our Research Translation Toolkit and a deep dive into each of its three sections.
  • This toolkit is particularly relevant to those supporting or implementing research projects who can benefit from step-by-step guidance on communicating key messages to the right decision-makers.

7 March 2023 6TH GLF INVESTMENT CASE SYMPOSIUM Finance for nature: What comes next?
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement.

7 March 2023. 1200 EAT, 1100 Southern African time and 0900 for much of West Africa/GMT. GIS and modelling methods to address water-based issues
7 March 2023. 8 PM EAT Drones for agriculture Masterclass

7 - 10 March 2023. 2nd AERAP Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Forum
  • A joint convening of AGRA and the African Union Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (ARBE).
8 March 2023.Twitter Chat: Innovations and technologies for an inclusive, equitable food system


8-9 March 2023. Third Global Foresight4Food Workshop at Montpellier 

9 March 2023, Thursday 8:00 -9:30 AM EST (Washington DC time) Africa-Korea AgTech Innovation Summit- Learnings and Way Forward

9 March 2023, Thursday 8:00 -9:30 AM EST (Washington DC time)

9 March 2023. Introduction to USAID's Research Translation Toolkit
  • WEBINAR 4 | Transforming Research into Programs and Policies: How to Use the Research-to-Action Plan Section
  • The USAID Research Division and USAID's Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC) invites USAID staff and partners to a four-part webinar series that provides an overview of our Research Translation Toolkit and a deep dive into each of its three sections.
  • This toolkit is particularly relevant to those supporting or implementing research projects who can benefit from step-by-step guidance on communicating key messages to the right decision-makers.


14 March 2023. 10:00am CET/ 12an Nairobi;  The sound and vision of organic farming for rural audiences - by AccessAgriculture
  • Webinar to know more about how media houses (radio, television, newspapers, and web media) can help in disseminating information about organic farming, agri entrepreneurship learning
14 March 2023.  10:00am CET - 2:00 pm CET Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Agriculture Rural Development Water and Environment (ARDWE)

14 March 2023. 2:30pm - 4pm CET Food Loss and Waste in Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains - IFPRI Seminar

14 March 2023. 3:00pm to 4:30pm (UTC+01:00) CET Useful applications of ChatGPT in knowledge work
  • Johannes Schunter will show a number of useful applications in development work ; what the bot is good at and what it is not good at.
  • Concept-note_EN.pdf
  • draft_Agenda_EN.pdf
  • 11:15 – 13:00 Thematic session: Case nº4: AgriFI Country and Regional windows: A framework to foster greater collaboration with technical assistance providers.
  • 13:45 – 15:30 Thematic session: Case nº7: Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD).

15- 17 March 2023 AGRITECH WEST AFRICA
  • exhibition and marketing platform for companies in the agriculture technology, agro chemicals, irrigation & systems, and all products related to agriculture and value addition, if they are targeting to connect partners and expand your business in West Africa.
20 March 2023. 15:00 - 16:30 CET. InfoPoint conference: Advancing African Continental Integration in Higher education: building trust through better quality

2023 UN Water Conference Side Events (# 58 p.)

22-24 March 2023. New York UN 2023 Water Conference 

22 March 2023 | 9:00 am - 10:00 am ET. School Feeding Coverage Webinar 

  • For many smallholder farmers, lack of access to affordable healthcare is a persistent problem.
  • In this webinar, the Living Income Community of Practice welcomes healthcare organization Elucid, and speciality cocoa company Max Felchlin AG to explore how healthcare protection for smallholders can help reach livelihood and living income goals.​
  • The analytics and data pipelines from DiCRA feed into numerous use cases including but not limited to Drought Early Warning Systems, Impact Evaluation of technical and policy interventions, designing targeted advisors, and long-term agriculture and food system budgeting, planning, and operations. 
  • DiCRA was piloted for Telangana state in India, and is now being scaled to 5 other states in India and to other geographies around the globe.
27 March 2023. #e-conversation on “Is #smart #farming raising justifiable expectations?” 
  • the Digital Agri Hub is launching the third of a series of e-conversations on a number of what it considers as potential clichés in the D4Ag domain. The exchanges are hosted on the D4Ag dgroup which you are welcome to join.
  • In the publication Assessment of smart farming solutions for smallholders in low and middle-income countries (Source: Loukos P. and Arathoon L. , 2022. GSMA Agtech & Digital Agri Hub, # 100 p) smart farming is defined as ‘the use of on-farm and remote sensors to generate and transmit data about a specific crop, animal or practice to enable the mechanisation and automation of on-farm practices and achieve more efficient, high-quality, and sustainable production of agricultural goods’.
  • The summary of the 2nd e-conversation on “How true is the mantra that small-scale producers benefit from digitalisation?” is available on the D4Ag dgroup’s wiki (login required).
  • The INCITIS-FOOD Project (www.incitis-food.eu) is working on improving innovative circular food system in 6 countries across 3 African regions: East (Kenya), West (Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) and Central (Cameroun and Gabon). These countries also host living labs that act as innovation accelerators.
  • Living labs are innovation networks in which the participant’s roles and rules are freely defined by themselves. They essentially exchange information according to a defined research strategy and a digital infrastructure in order to transform this information into new knowledge;  comparable to a lean innovation approach in which the end users define the contents of the project.
  • What are the benefits of participating as a food system actor? The objective of the eight living labs in six African countries is to map the landscape of food providers, manufacturers, marketers, and consumers and to help identify bottlenecks and challenges that can be addressed by the living labs.
  • Forum for the Future of Agriculture (ForumforAg) has been contributing to the debate on agriculture and the environment in Brussels since 2008 and is now firmly established as the premier event of its type. 
  • As well as the main event in Brussels, regional conferences every year discuss agriculture and environment at a national level across Europe.
  • This event will discuss how the new EU-IFAD partnership agreements can be used to promote agro-ecological approaches and other sustainable agricultural practices among youth.
  • A panel discussion will follow a conversation on policy priorities for youth and the future of food systems with EU Commissioner for International Partnership, Jutta Urpilainen, IFAD President, Alvaro Lario, and Chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security, Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio.
  • by IIED. This webinar will discuss the importance of the small-scale fisheries and aquaculture sectors, and look ahead to explore opportunities for supporting small-scale actors to overcome challenges and fulfil their potential contributions to sustainable development.
28 March 2023. 9 AM CEST. Policy Interventions During Times of Crisis - by AGRA

30 March 2023. 12:30- 14:00 CEST. InfoPoint Hybrid Conference: "Agricultural data-driven strategies for development, food security, and resilience"
  • lack of access to data and limited transparency in production are hampering policy making and policy evaluation processes to develop sustainable agriculture and food systems.
  • This webinar presents key results and lessons from the GSMA Innovation Fund for the Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains, an initiative that supported six grantee organisations in designing, developing, testing and scaling commercially viable digital solutions that address smallholder farmer challenges.
30 March 2023. 14:00 - 15:00 CET. Pricing and purchasing practices in the journey to achieve a living income and wage | hosted by Solidaridad, 
  • Solidaridad's new research, carried out by Aidenvironment and SÜDWIND, dives into pricing in cotton and textiles, gold, palm oil, cocoa and coffee. It examines how we can adapt pricing to ensure living wages and incomes for the producers at the beginning of the value chain.
30 March 2023. 01:00 pm – 02:30 am CET Catalyzing the Seaweed Revolution
  • Incl. : Recent developments in seaweed aquaculture in Tanzania highlighting challenges and opportunities
  • Meeting password: CtpNMTR3Q39
  • Meeting number: 2318 126 1189
  • The municipalities of Kolding (DK) and Castelo Branco (PT), both part of the FUSILLI project, will share how connecting with people in the city has been key in kickstarting urban food system transformation.


31 March 2023. 12:00 PM CET. Digital Technologies and Tools for sustainable and resilient Agriculture and Food Systems in West Africa
  • The public webinar is expected to draw lessons on digital technologies and or innovations from the third-party projects of AGriDI and VaRRIWA as well as of other country or regional initiatives.
  • AGriDI is implemented in five countries of ECOWAS, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria through the deployment of ten local projects that are promoting digital technologies. To this effect, a baseline study was conducted to assess the ecosystem of digital technologies in the five countries. The main finding of the baseline study [rather redundant and not surprising] is that the rate of development of digital innovations in agriculture is closely linked to the efforts of each country in providing policies and strategies enabling access by the population (and especially by those living in rural area) to basic connectivity infrastructure (electricity and Internet).
4 April 2023. 8:30 AM EST | 2:30 PM CET | 7:00 PM IST. Fortifying our Future: Coming together to support the World Health Assembly Resolution on Food Fortification

4 April 2023. 6:00 PM Africa's E-Governance
  • Cabo Verde's President on e-Government
4 April 2023. 1200 EAT, 1100 Southern Africa, 1000 Central and parts of West Africa/BST, 0900 the rest of West Africa/GMT. Water School Africa (WSA)
  • Meeting ID: 700 341 344
  • Groundswell West Africa is a partnership in four countries in West Africa – Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ghana. Much of their work happens in the Sahel region where every drop of rain counts so over the years various practices have been developed by farmers and communities in the region to hold more water in their landscapes. Tsuamba Bourgou will share some of those experiences.
 4 -5 April 2023. Kenya Food Systems Conference
  • CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies
5 April 2023 at 8:00 am Central US (2:00 pm West Africa Time, 3:00 pm Central Africa Time and 4:00 pm Eastern Africa Time) Availability of soybean rust resistant varieties currently accessible to growers




11 April 2023. 11:00am Pacific time (7pm UK). Fungi and the Soil Food Web

13 April 2023. 3PM CEST Global Food Policy Report launch
  • IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report,  explores evidence-based policy and governance solutions that can provide better early warning and rapid response, increase resilience of food systems, protect the livelihoods of women and marginal groups and ensure their inclusion in crisis response, and address the impacts of conflict and migration.
  • Meeting in a hybrid format, members of the Food Crisis Prevention (RPCA) will: examine the final results of the 2022-23 agropastoral season 2022-23 and the food and nutrition situation and review food and nutrition situation and mobilise all stakeholders to address the major food crisis stakeholders in the face of the major food crisis in the region.
  • REGISTRATION
14 April 2023.  3PM CEST Investing in Human Capital to Accelerate the Green Transition

19 April 2023. 12:00 EAT/ 11:00 SAT/ 9:00 WAT. Linking with universities and research institutions in the promotion of the Participatory Innovation Development (PID) approach.
  • Prolinnova network is organising a series of three webinars for network members to share experiences in PID
20 April 2023. 11:00am Pacific time (7pm UK). Fungi and the Future of Farming

25 – 26 April, 2023. 4Revs African Summit(4Revs) 2023
  • Japan/ The Catholic University of Eastern Africa Nairobi Kenya
  • To bring together professionals in the field of Food Science and Nutrition from Africa with the intention of encouraging and transforming newest knowledge on sustainable food and nutritional consumption and lifestyles
26 April, 2023. 11:00am Pacific time (7pm UK). Fungal Farming Case Study


28 April 2023. @ 04:00 PM EAT Addressing non-tariff measures (NTMs) to Accelerate the Implementation of the AfCFTA - by AGRA

28 April 2023. 11:00am Pacific time (7pm UK). Fungal Farming Experts: Meet the Fun-guys and gals!

8 - 10 May 2023. AIM for Climate Summit
  • The Summit, supported by Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), aims to bring together partners to increase and accelerate investment in and support for agriculture and food systems innovation for climate action.


12-13 June, 2023. 9:00 pm EDT. Cracking the Nut Conference
  • Reducing risks associated with rural and agricultural investments
18-23 June 2023 22nd International Fusarium Laboratory Workshop (IFLW23)

19 June - 30 June 2023. ANH 2023 will be hosted in a hybrid format: online and in Malawi.
  • The ANH Academy Week is a series of annual events that bring together the community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the intersection of agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health
24 - 28 July 2023. UN Food Systems Summit | 2023 Stocktaking Moment


5-8 September 2023, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Africa Food Systems Forum 


11th – 15th September 2023, KAMPALA, UGANDA 16th African Dairy Conference and Exhibition

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