Available recordings March 2023

31 March 2023. Digital Technologies and Tools for sustainable and resilient Agriculture and Food Systems in West Africa - Recording expected soon

30 March 2023. Ethiopia CGIAR Initiative Launch: How science can contribute to food systems transformation - Recordings pending

30 March 2023. Enabling Environment for Digital Agriculture and Innovation in Ethiopia by FAO - Recording expected soon

30 March 2023. Scaling impactful digital agricultural services in the last mile - Recording soon

• This webinar presented 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.
• The webinar presented: AgroMall (Nigeria), Dialog (Sri Lanka) Koltiva (Indonesia) and Vodacom (Tanzania)

30 March 2023.  Agricultural data-driven strategies for development, food security, and resilience InfoPoint Hybrid Conference - Recording available

28 - 29 March 2023. AGRA webinars - Recordings pending

• 29/03.Soil Health and Carbon Farming. Can smallholder farmers afford it?
• 28/03. Policy Interventions During Times of Crisis 
• 28/03. Addressing non-tariff measures NTMs to Accelerate the Implementation of the AfCFTA

27-28 March 2023. Forum for the future of agriculture  - Recordings available

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Keynote - Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President, European Commission
• Inspirational speech - Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, UN Messenger of Peace, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
• Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, Institute for Integrative Biology in the Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich
• Inspirational speech - Ranveer Chandra, Managing Director for Research for Industry, and CTO of Agri-Food, Microsoft - How we can use technology to better serve biodiversity?

28 March 2023. Investing in youth for a sustainable future in agriculture and Food Systems: A dialogue on the way forward - Recording available

• This event discussed how the new EU-IFAD partnership agreements can be used to promote agro-ecological approaches and other sustainable agricultural practices among youth.

27 March 2023. INCiTiS-FOOD Practitioner and Expert Virtual Round Table Discussion  - Recording Expected soon

• 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.

22 - 24 March 2023. UN Water Conference side events  - Recordings available for:

• 20/03. Groundwater: Potential and Pitfalls for Africa
• 20/03. Groundwater: Potential and Pitfalls for Africa
• 21/03. Water for Sustainable Development: Innovative Solutions to the Water Crisis in Africa by International Centre for Leadership Development Nigeria
• 22/03 Water Management in Action for Productive, Climate Resilient Food Systems
• 23/03 Resilient Rivers: Counting Fish from Forests: on integrated watershed monitoring and management.

21 - 23 March 2023. Kigali. Building Resilient African Food systems amid Health, conflict and climate disruptions. By Akademiya 2063. - Recordings available

16 March 2023. Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis - Recording available

• A new study finds that sustainable food system transformation can be achieved in the next decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria by increasing public investment by US$10 billion per year (on average from 2023 to 2030) and implementing a more effective portfolio of interventions that achieve multiple outcomes.

14 March 2023. Food Loss and Waste in Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains - IFPRI Seminar

14 March 2023. The sound and vision of organic farming for rural audiences - by AccessAgriculture

14 March 2023. Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Agriculture Rural Development Water and Environment (ARDWE) - No recording available

14 March 2023. Useful applications of ChatGPT in knowledge work Recording available

Useful for:

• First drafts of content (communication, FAQs, briefing notes, proposals, press releases, grant applications)
• Summary of texts (protocols, publications, transcripts)
• Translation“of complex texts (bureaucratic, legal, medical, scientific) in to easy language
• Generation of ideas (names, applications, slogans, interviews)
• As lectorate (grammar, stile, tone, voice, target audience)
• As remedy for writer‘s block
• For planning and analysis (schedules, analysis)
• As tutor and training partner

13-15 March 2023. Regional Climate Smart Agriculture Policy Dialogue by FANRPAN - Recordings available for:

• SESSION 2: AGRICULTURE AND WATER CHALLENGES IN SSA RURAL COMMUNITIES
• SESSION 3: Agricultural Technology for Resilience: Governance Framework and Practice
• SESSION 4: CIRCULAR FOOD SYSTEMS / THE WATER-ENERGYFOOD (WEF) NEXUS
• SESSION 5: THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL INCLUSION (WOMEN AND YOUTH) IN TRANSFORMING AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS IN SSA
• SESSION 6: CAPACITY GAPS IN TRANSFORMING SMALLHOLDER FARMING IN SSA
• SESSION 7: IMPORTANCE OF PARTNERSHIPS TO ENSURE INCREASED INVESTMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT IN SSA
• SESSION 9: POLICIES PRIORITIES FOR TRANSITIONING TO CLIMATE-RESILIENT FARMING SYSTEMS IN SSA
• INVESTMENT PRIORITIES FOR TRANSITIONING TO CLIMATE-RESILIENT FARMING SYSTEMS IN SSA

7 - 10 March 2023. Kigali-Rwanda. East African stakeholders get Knowledge Management Training to Catalyze Improvement in Rural Livelihoods - No recording available

7 - 10 March 2023. AERAP Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Forum - No recording available

• The meeting addressed a range of themes, including Biodiversity Health, Medicine, Life Sciences, Geoscience, ICT, Digital Transformation, the Green Agenda, Women and Girls in science, Astronomy, reskilling and upskilling and Agri-food systems.

7 March 2023.  Global Landscapes Forum: Finance for nature: What comes next?  - Recordings available for:

• Addressing the complexity of directing sustainable climate finance to the Global South: The session highlighted solutions that the landscape partners found to address complex challenges encountered in landscapes in Cameroon, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana and Indonesia.
• Market-based mechanisms: Sustainable conservation finance from incubation to operations
• How do we reach the sustainable finance tipping point?
• Demonstrate what works: Better impact monitoring to scale nature-based investments
• How to scale finance for ecosystem restoration: Solutions from the private sector and development partners
• Accelerating nature-based businesses in the Global South
• Cooperative carbon finance: enabling smallholder agroforestry at scale through carbon markets
• Navigating the tricky terrain of NBS and blended finance
• Closing the nature finance gap: practical solutions to mobilize private finance for landscape restoration
• Sustainable livestock value chain investments for rangeland restoration
• Addressing commodity-driven deforestation in investment portfolios: How financial institutions can drive sustainability and value creation
• Catalyzing investments for landscape restoration in agrifood supply chains: Sharing experiences and tools
• New ways forward: How can the financial ecosystem sustain and restore nature?

6 - 10 March 2023. 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin - No recording available