- Digital Agri Hub is launching a new e-mail-based conversation.
- GCA, the Global Center on Adaptation , an international organization operating as a solution broker to accelerate action and support for adaptation solutions, is launching its Food Security Program in Africa, to support mainstreaming of digital climate advisory services ( DCAS ) and adaptation solutions into agriculture and food security investments .
- DCAS is seen as a potential game changer for smallholder farmers, giving them access to information and a variety of services .
- For the first time, all key players in agrofood research and innovation from the public and private sector in North Africa are gathered to exchange experience and design potential joint programs to address the challenges of the region .
- North Africa DCAS hybrid training event is co-hosted by GCA, IFAD, AFDB, with the participation of WB and ISDB
- Related: 25 – 26 April 2024, 8:00 GMT+1. Digital Climate Advisory Services Training to Support Climate Resilience for Smallholder Agriculture in Central Africa
- Launch of the Water Footprint Tool and Guidance document, featuring step-by-step instructions on its utilization.
- Gain insights directly from Winnow an AI-based company actively involved in reducing Food Loss and Waste (FLW) in the UAE
- Speakers: Seta Tutundjian سيتا توتنجيان, CEO and founder, Thriving Solutions, Rachel Devine, Senior Analyst, WRAP, David Jackson, Director of Marketing & Public Affairs, Winnow, And a pre-record from City, University of London
- Previous webinar recording 22/02: Champions 12.3, a regional network that brings together public, private, and civil society organizations working across the Middle East and North Africa on food loss and waste (learn about joining the multi-stakeholder network and calculating Carbon Footprint it)
Co-organized by Global Health 50/50, IFPRI, and UN Women
- The Theme of the event is “Reflecting on the Malabo Declaration and Outlining the new (Post Malabo) Agenda to Build Momentum, Re-invigorate and Consolidate the Gains on CAADP, and respond to Emerging Trends and Dynamics”.
- The official launch of the fourth BR report is in line with efforts to increase awareness and advocacy and to commence the necessary dialogues on the findings of the report to enhance ownership and action at national, regional and continental levels. The Post-Malabo agenda roadmap outlines the objectives, process, expectations and timelines for discussion.
8 March 2023, at 3 PM WAT,
The Future of Food is Inclusive: African Women At The Forefront Of Agriculture by African Food Changemakers
8 March 2024.
Climate Finance Forum - Cape Town by RES4Africa Foundation together with Nedbank CIB and the European Investment Bank
- For three days, international and national stakeholders will reflect in Leuven on the challenges and prospects of a sustainable food system.
- The aim is to create synergies between science, policy and practice. Scientists, policy-makers, civil society and industry will participate and co-organise, more than 20 thematic sessions
- Agdrive is an acceleration and investment platform focused on unlocking innovation and investment in Africa’s agro-processing, agritech, and digital agriculture sector.
- AgDrive is a 12 month innovation and investing ecosystem focused on innovative early stage and growth oriented early stage and growth oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the agro processing, agritech, and digital sectors.
- For inquiries regarding pre registration , sponsorship opportunity and more, please contact:
Phone: +260 961 888 009 I +260 971 796 889 Email: agdrive@onelife.co.zm - Through a multi-initiative strategy , the Agdrive 2024 program comprises three key components :
- Agdrive Xplo Southern Africa Investment and Trade Mission (21st - 26th July, 2024): Bringing together participants from COMESA , SADC, Brazil, China, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States .
- Agdrive Food and Agritech Investment Summit (24th - 25th July, 2024): The summit will run parallel to the trade mission offering a prime opportunity for stakeholders to engage , collaborate , and explore the latest trends in the agribusiness sector.
- A two-part initiative providing crucial advisory and support services , strategically scheduled before and after the trade mission. November 2024): - June 2024, August - Advisory and Technical Assistance (April - Agdrive Plus
- To inaugurate the 2024 webinar series, this webinar is aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of how the community operates and how various stakeholders such as companies, governments, sector groups, and NGOs are addressing the challenge of achieving a Living Income.
- Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival in Brussels at our high-level event and at more than 30 satellite events across Europe.
- VACS was launched in February 2023, in partnership with the African Union, FAO, and U.S. Department of State, with the goal of advancing more climate-resilient and nutritious food systems in Africa. A team of researchers from AgMIP, based at the Climate School, participate in VACS, conducting research to better understand how African opportunity crops can be used to address the challenges that African food systems face under climate change.
- Why and how did nutritionists, plant breeders, climate modelers, soil scientists, economists – 60 global experts – decide on these crops.
- 40-years journey through the Research and Innovation Framework Programmes. Check the programme here!
- 20/03 17h:50 – 18:20 The AU-EU Innovation Agenda
A Forward-looking Cooperation for the
Africa-Europe Partnership
- 20/03 17h:50 – 18:20 Evolution of Association
of Third Countries
to EU Research & Innovation
Framework Programmes
- 21/03 11:40 – 12:10 Innovation Ecosystems for Bioeconomy and Food Systems
18 - 21 March 2024.
Training on breeding data management with BreedBase Lima, Peru
- FAO, Biovision, the Food Policy forum for Change and the Agroecology Coalition
- Get inspired by learnings from Eastern and Southern Africa summarised in the outcome brief “National Agroecology Strategies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Lighthouses for food system transformation” which will be launched during the event and followed by an insightful discussion with policy makers and shapers from the region, as well as international experts.
- The Blue Bioeconomy ERA-Net Cofund will organise a Final meeting in Brussels to mark the end of the ERA-Net. The event will gather science-policy professionals and research and innovation funders to discuss R&I project portfolio management, using a Value Chain Approach and creating synergies among projects.
- BlueBio funding partners, policy officers from The European Commission, representatives from relevant HE Partnerships and other institutions will be invited to join the one-day event in Brussels.
19 - 24 March 2024.
VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of Our Planet
- This virtual event will bring together legume value chain stakeholders from across the region with a special emphasis on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.
- The focal crops are common bean and cowpea.
- The European Commission’s annual flagship research and innovation event brings together policymakers, researchers, stakeholders, and the public to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond through key policy debates, funding and networking opportunities, and dedicated workshops.
21 March 2024. 13:00-18.00 (UTC +1)
How innovation is driving change in forestry by FAO
21 March 2024. 10:00 to 11:30 (UTC+03:00).
EU-EAC MARKUP II Online workshop on EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR)- The workshop aims to shed light on the main components of EUDR, its origin, and the context of the EU Green Deal, discuss the main- elements of EUDR implementation and the core concepts, among which “Benchmarking”, “Due Diligence Obligations”, “Geolocation of all plots of land”.
- Participants in the workshop will include policymakers, the private sector, and experts and will be invited to share best practices and insights on how to achieve deforestation-free global value chains and meet the requirements of the EU market.
- This Knowledge Agenda has been developed as part of the FNS-REPRO Learning Agenda by the Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) with knowledge partners across the Horn of Africa.
- It is based on the framework provided by the Agenda Knowledge for Development which outlines the knowledge necessary to attain the Sustainable Development Goals with 12 Knowledge for Development Goals and 130 personal statements.
- The proposed Knowledge Agenda for building food systems resilience for protracted food crises in the Horn of Africa is also based on academic and other literatures on knowledge management and food systems resilience in protracted crises.
- This hybrid consultation is bringing together key stakeholders to further develop and validate this Knowledge Agenda.
- Stakeholders: experts and community representatives from the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia/Somaliland), those interested in food systems transformation/resilience in protracted crisis, and experts in knowledge management for development.
- For those attending the event online, the ForumforAg Annual Conference will be streamed live on March 26th, from 9:15 CET to 17:00 CET, accessible through the ForumforAg Website. To virtually attend the event, simply click on this link on the day and time of the event.
- Chaired by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, the launch event is the premier drum beat and kick start event towards the Africa Food Systems Forum 2024, that will be held from September 2-6, 2024, in Kigali Rwanda.
Agritech West Africa Exhibition
- FAO, RUAF and the CGIAR Initiative on Resilient Cities
- Multi-stakeholder platforms for promoting innovations in the circular bioeconomy: Dzifa Agbefu, CBE Innovation Hub Coordinator, IWMI Ghana
- Patrick Muiruri, Food Systems Officer, Nairobi City County, Kenya
- This webinar is the second of the series on how the innovations processes promoted by DeSIRA projects and their organizations, can or should be brough to scale. It targets projects that are coming to an end as well as those that need to start building their exit strategy as part of their theory of change.
- The aim is to review the imbrication of DeSIRA projects (especially multi-country projects) into national, and international regional dynamics. The nature of relationships between DeSIRA projects, national and regional innovation strategies, the interaction with organizations in support of Research and Innovation or extension services and whether these can provide conditions for innovation trajectories to be pursued, building on action and results achieved by DeSIRA projects.
- The webinar will help identify regional innovation agendas or policies that can support the scaling and sustainability or DeSIRA Innovations and how DeSIRA projects should seek to interface with these agendas.
- Co-organized by IFPRI, CGIAR, and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
- hosted by the CGIAR Research Initiatives on National Policies and Strategies (NPS) and Excellence in Agronomy (EiA).
- Partners such as GIZ, FSD-Kenya, African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership, AGRA, National Research Fund, International Food Policy Research Institute, Tegemeo Institute, Association of Fintechs in Kenya, AGRA, Association of Microfinance Institutions of Kenya, Fertilizer Association of Kenya, Apollo Agriculture, Kenya Union of Savings and Credit Co-operatives, SNBX Capital, will contribute to this conference and transformation of the Agricultural sector in Kenya.
- See the program
28 March 2024. 14:00 CET.
Session two of the ‘
Backing the Middle’ series
- Panel #1 Autopsy of the Global Gateway: dynamics in relations between the EU and Africa
- Panel #2 Resurgence of coups in Africa: rethinking, reinventing and rebuilding democracies
- Panel #3 Investing in Africa: the AfCFTA, the diaspora and impact investment as new catalysts for emergence
- Panel #4 Building on our commons: the potential of entrepreneurial innovation, civil society and territorial dialogue
- Panel #5 Impact of the 2024 European elections on EU-Africa relations
- Agriculture plays a key role in supporting livelihoods and national economies in Africa. Given Africa’s close ties with Europe in trade and development, the developments in Europe regarding the proposed regulations on Plant Reproductive Materials are of significant concern due to their potentially far-reaching impacts.
- Against this background, the PELUM Association in partnership with the African Organic Agriculture Network (AfroNet ), Broederlijk Dalen, and Bread for the World (BfW) organises this webinar
- Meeting ID: 843 1551 0234 Passcode: 830054
- Building on the momentum from the UN Food System Summit and recognizing that the 2030 target year of the Sustainable Development Goals is on the horizon, this 5th Global Food Security Conference will bring together science, business and policy to address this need.
10 - 12 April 2024.
EU-Zambian Business Forum: Value addition in the copper sector
- Join the Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) Network for an evening of talks and a discussion on the state of industrial animal agriculture in the context of intersecting crises.
- Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services in partnership with SAAI, FANRPAN and AiFarmer
- Discover how advancements in artificial intelligence are revolutionizing digitalization efforts within the agricultural sector, unlocking new opportunities for enhanced advisory services and knowledge dissemination. Gain valuable insights into leveraging AI technologies for sustainable agricultural development and improved livelihoods.
18 April 2024. Two influential voices in ecosystem restoration: Andrew Millison and John D. Liu.
23-25 April 2024, Dakar, Senegal
International Conference on Sustainable Intensification of Soils and Agroecosystems
25th April 2024 | 14:00 BST (UK time). Webinar |
Gender-focused Living Income Interventions | Hosted by LICoP
25 April 2024.
TP Organics Soil health and global food security: Research & innovation for productive and sustainable agriculture
- The event will feature presentations and discussions on practical approaches to integrating biological inputs into farming practices, drawing insights from experiences in both the European Union and Africa.
- This hybrid conference is an initiative of the Food Bridge vzw in partnership with Diaspofood ULB, Africa Museum Tervuren, Interdisciplinary Historical Food Studies Research Group (FOST) VUB, The New Global Order (TNGO), Alefa Diaspora and others.
- The conference seeks to unravel the historical, cultural, and socio-economic dynamics that shaped the
- current state of African food systems and its impact on the continent’s development. Furthermore, it will be considering the effects of colonization, the experiences of diasporic communities, and the potential for decolonization to reshape the African food systems.
- Abstracts should be in .doc or pdf format and sent to diasporaprojet@gmail.com Maureen.Duru@vub.be Sarah.Oneill@ulb.be
6 June 2024, Bonn, Germany, and online. GLF & CIFOR-ICRAF | GLF Peatlands: Building Bridges, Sharing Success
17 to 20 June 2024.
ANH2024 (Online) Learning Labs- The 9th annual Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (ANH) Academy Week
23 June 2024.
IUFRO World Congress 2024 - Forests and Society Towards 2050, Stockholm, Sweden
24 June 2024.
SUN Movement Global Gathering 2024- The SUN Movement Global Gathering is the Movement’s flagship event and one of the largest international gatherings within the nutrition community.
- Developments in the theory and the applications of counterfactual methods for policy impact evaluation. Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- The aim of COMPIE is to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss developments in the theory and the applications of counterfactual methods for policy impact evaluation. Applications can cover a broad range of interventions, from labor and social policy to regulation and funding programmes, ideally with a focus on EU policies or developing countries.
- Paper submissions: January 1, 2024 to 28 February, 2024.
23–29 June 2024, Stockholm, Sweden. IUFRO |
26th World Congress
- Drawing on CGIAR science and partnerships from around the world, the inaugural CGIAR Science Week will bring together the community working for a food, nutrition and climate secure future to: co-create a roadmap for food, land and water systems transformation, forge partnerships for action, build the case for investment, inspire change.
29 - 31 July 2024. Kigali, Rwanda. 2nd Science & Partnerships for Agriculture Conference (SPAC 2024)
- 02/08 Assessing the impacts of international agricultural research: New methods, rigorous evidence, better decisions [SPIA Fest 2024] - CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA)
- 02/08 Regional integration, sustainability and food security in South Asia
- 02/08 The bioeconomy and sustainable development
- 02/08 Transforming food systems in South Asia - IFPRI
- 02/08 Transdisciplinary approaches in agri-food systems transformation research- IFPRI, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, ICARDA
- 02/08 Facilitating the rapid, Inclusive and sustainable rural transformation in Asian developing countries
- 04/08 Plenary 3: Healthy and Sustainable Diets and Nutrition
- 04/08 Plenary 4: Agri-Food Value Chains and Sustainability
- 05/08 Plenary 5: Gender in Agri-Food Systems
- 06/08 Plenary 6: Agri-Food Systems, Climate, and the Environment
- 06/08 Plenary 7: Novel Approaches in Agri-Food Systems Research
- Selection of Invited Panel sessions that will be held at the conference. For session details and timing, please consult the conference program app (available from July 2024).
- Science Policy Interface for Sustainable Food Systems (organizer: Hans-Jörg Lutzeyer, Peter Wehrheim) (speakers: Justus Wesseler, Shenggen Fan, Jill McCluskey, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Joachim von Braun)
- Toward Sustainable Food Systems Transformation in Africa (organizer: Ousmane Badiane, Tsitsi Makombe) (speakers: Sheryl Hendriks, Anna Lartey, John Ulimwengu, Getaw Tadesse, Julius Ecuru, Katrin Glatzel, Racine Ly)
- Nourishing Growth: How Public Spending Decisions are Shaping Agricultural Transformation and Food Security in India and Africa (organizer: Ashok Gulati, Joachim von Braun) (speakers: Shyma Jose, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Lukas Kornher, Ousmane Badiane, Usha Barwale Zehr, Sachin Chaturvedi, Shahidur Rashid, Sheryl Hendriks
- Strengthening the Capacities of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes in Africa (organizer: Thomas Jayne) (speakers: Nalishebo Meebelo, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Chris Barrett, Tinashe Kapuya, Milu Muyanga)
- Urban Food Systems and Dietary Transition in Africa (organizer: Felix Asante (speakers: Jonathan Mockshell, Sylvester Ogutu, Hannah Ameye, Matin Qaim, Makaiko Khonje
- Alternative Proteins: Challenges and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Settings (organizer: Claudia Ringler) (speakers: B Dayakar Rao, Arghadeep Saha, Frans Swanepoel, Melissa van der Merwe, Holly Wang)
August 2024.
AFMASS Nigeria Food Expo co-located with Africa Dairy Manufacturing Expo and Africa Food Safety Summit – Western Africa
2 - 6 September 2024. Kigali Rwanda.
Africa Food Systems Forum 2024
11-13 September TROPENTAG
16 -19 September 2024. 13th African Crop Science Society (ACSS) conference.
- hosted by the Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) in Maputo, Mozambique,
- under the theme, ‘Crop research and innovation for agricultural transformation, resilience and inclusion’, the Maputo meeting will also provide a platform for sharing and discussing research results that bring solutions towards enhancing agricultural development in Africa.
17 September 2024, Nairobi, Kenya, and online. GLF | GLF Africa 2024
