Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Webinars & events July 2023

3 to 28 July 2023. Collaboration for Effective Rural Communication Services
  • For four weeks, Yenkasa Africa in collaboration with Farm Radio International will offer broadcasters and stakeholders an online discussion on Collaboration for effective rural communication services, from July 3 to July 28.

  • This forum was established by African governments and the African Development Bank to help bridge Africa’s infrastructure funding gap by facilitating project development, mobilizing public and private sector finance, and investing in infrastructure on the continent.
  • Africa50 focuses on medium-to-large-scale projects that have development impact while offering an appropriate risk-adjusted return to investors.

4 July 2023. Water School Africa online
  • the zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87545081076
  • Meeting ID: 875 4508 1076
  • During the session Ferdinand W Wafula, Coordinating officer at Bio Gardening Innovation(BIOGI) will share with us their insightful work story! At Bio Gardening Innovations, their work on water in Vihiga county is inspired by the interconnection of elements: vegetation, land and air. Food is produced as water flows through vegetation and land. Vihiga county is in Western Kenya with some parts having rocky and hilly terrain, as well as there being numerous streams along the valleys. There is high population density and continuous appetite for land. This has destroyed most of the natural vegetation especially around catchment/watershed areas. They have gained much inspiration from existing models such as that of Julius Astiva, a farmer who has an excellent living example of interconnections on the land, as well as using all harvested water.

5 July 2023 starting at 10:00 AM CET. NewTechAqua webinar on: Promoting Aquaculture 4.0 at farm level
  • In the framework of the EU Project NewTechAqua (H2020), the CIHEAM Bari -Italy and CIHEAM Zaragoza- Spain are organizing a series of webinars aimed to transfer NewTechAqua project outputs, key results and new technologies.
  • This webinar will present the main results from the NewTechAqua project in the application of precision farming in land-based marine fish farms and on the use of satellite images in shellfish farming, and the results on tracking and analysis of the movement behavior of seabass from iFishIENCi Project.

5 July 2023 | 14:00 – 15:30 CEST. Boosting the potential of women farmers as protagonist of agroecological experiences: stories from the field.

6 -8 July 2023. first Africa-Spain Cooperation Summit.
  • This high-level Forum, to be held in Spain is an opportunity for Spain to weave strong links with the continent.
  • Theme: climate smart technologies and practices for sustainable food systems.

7 July 2023 | 10 am PST | 1 pm EST | 8 pm EAT. Sustainability of Millet
  • This webinar will review the sustainability aspects of growing millet, including the reduced need for inputs (e.g., water, fertilizer, pesticides), as well as its resilience to climate change.

10 – 12 July 2023. Nairobi, Kenya. 14th African Union High Level Private Sector Forum
  • Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships to accelerate trade and investments in Africa. 
10-19 July 2023. UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 

11 July 2023 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST). Historical Aspects of Millets

11-13 July 2023. in Jordan as hybrid event, FAO-ITU Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum 2023 (DASF 2023) for NENA region
  • This event will identify necessary ecosystem that are needed to develop and sustain digital solutions for agriculture.

12 July 2023. High-Level Launch of the 2023 Report of “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World”
  • by FAO in the margins of the 2023 High-Level Political Forum.

12 - 14 July 2023. The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) Plenary Assembly
  • This is the most important gathering of the partnership where crucial decisions concerning the global soil agenda are taken. It is the main platform for FAO Members and GSP partners to meet and exchange knowledge and expertise in the field of sustainable soil management.
  • All the documents to be discussed at the Plenary Assembly can be consulted here.
  • Plenary Assembly documents
  • Link for registration
  • 13 July 2023 Soil Partners’ Day AGENDA
13 July 2023. Finance for Nature Digital Forum
  • explore ways to support the stewardship of local communities and enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • In this webinar activists, practitioners and scholars will present promising advances in the scaling up of agroecology, as well as possible next steps to grow even more exponentially.
  • Incl. Oliver Oliveros, Agroecology Coalition, Italy

  • How does food insecurity affect irregular migration, and what role can a needs-based humanitarian response play?

20 July 2023. 9:00-10:30 AM EDT (GMT-4). Enhancing Food Environment Assessment Tools for LMICs
  • Lessons from a Pilot Study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste

24 to 26 July 2023 in Rome. UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment
  • the UN will host a global Stocktaking Moment to discuss progress made since the UN Food Systems Summit of 2021. 12 Heads of State, 40 Ministers, and 400 other country delegates as well as 200 representatives of non-state actors will gather in Rome to share their updates in implementing their national food systems transition pathways.
  • The UN food systems coordination hub expects the meeting will result in concrete deals to accelerate action towards SDG2, and in additional commitments to a specific trust fund to support countries. The outcomes of the Stocktaking Moment will be taken to the SDG Acceleration Summit in September.
27 - 29 July 2023. Kinshasa, DRC. Reconciling Food Production with Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Emergency in the Congo Basin

27-28 July 2023. Second Russia-Africa Summit will take place in Moscow.

17 August 2023 from 2PM AET, 1PM SAST, 12PM CAT, 11 AM GMT. Our Pathway to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa through Agroecology and Food Sovereignty
  • organized by AFSA.
20 - 24 August 2023. World Water Week 2023
29 August 2023. 13:00-15:00 CEST. Global Webinar on Digital Innovations and Solutions for Agriculture Extension.
  • GFRAS is conducting a workstream entitled “Contemporary Digital Innovations and Solutions for Agricultural Extension

4 - 8 September 2023. Africa Climate Week (ACW 2023) + African Climate Action Summit
  • The Africa Climate Action Summit is being co-hosted by the Government of Kenya and the African Union Commission and is co-convened by the African Development Bank and GCA.
  • The Summit will coalesce partners, including international financial institutions and the private sector, around accelerating adaptation financing and climate action leading into the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit and COP28.

5 September 2023. Climate resilience of millets

12-16 September 2023 | ESADA African Dairy Conference and Exhibition

12-29 September 2023. 9th edition of the Science Summit

18-20 September 2023. 11th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD)!
  • This year’s theme is, “The Midpoint of the SDGs: Global and Local Progress & Challenges”.
19-20 September 2023 | Sustainable Food Forum London

  • IFPRI will be featured as the CGIAR center of focus at this year’s Tropentag, an annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. 
  • See the IFPRI PROGRAM

  • World food production systems, particularly in Africa, have recently faced unprecedented challenges from climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • For food of animal origin in particular, these recent challenges are in addition to already existing challenges of animal diseases and parasites, human-wildlife conflicts, cross-border diseases, long droughts, lack of markets, under-funded research, and lack of viable extension services leading to deficiency in management skills in animal farming.
  • All these negative impacts on sustainable livestock production have weakened Africa’s food production capacity.

26-28 September 2023. European Organic Congress 2023



28-30 September 2023 in Bandung Indonesia. Talk ASAP: Africa-Asia Pacific Dialogue on Communication Issues at 29th AMIC Annual Conference

29 September - 8 October | SARA Abidjan

4-5 October 2023. Rome Water Dialogue  - FAO

11 - 12 October 2023. GLF Nairobi 2023: A New Vision for Earth.
  • GLF online or in Nairobi, Kenya will explore local solutions to the global climate and biodiversity crises, shape the conversation ahead of and all the way to the UNFCCC Climate Conference

16-20 October 2023. FAO Science and Innovation Forum
  • 2nd edition of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum (SIF) under the umbrella of the WFF flagship event will focus on “Science and Innovation for Climate Action”.
  • The FAO SIF will take in a hybrid format at FAO headquarters in Rome and through a digital platform.

16-20 October 2023. Rabat. 19th CGIAR Science Council


16-20 October 2023. Nutrition for Resilience
  • Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference #MNF2023,
17 - 19 October 2023. Genetic Innovation Forum 2023


17 - 19 October 2023. 14th Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) Annual Meeting (GAM)
  • hosted by the North American Agricultural Advisory Network (NAAAN) 

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