1 October 2020 – 16:00 PM WEBINAR:
CGIAR webinar series on climate security -
A Partnership Agenda for Climate Security1 October 2020. 09:00 AM- 10:30 AM EST.
Blockchain as a Solution to make Sensitive Food Supply & Value Chains Resilient and Transparent1 October 2020. 10-11 a.m. CDT | 15:00-16:00 UTC
The Role of Water Re-use in Water Security: An effective tool in agriculture, food production and urban water use. 2020 Water for Food Global Webinar Series
7 October 2020.
Global university partnerships for addressing emerging development challenges. Organised by ROFORUM
6-9 October 2020.
7th OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment taking place virtually as a Zoom Conference. This year’s Forum will focus on mobilising finance to green the COVID-19 recovery and maintaining momentum for green, sustainable finance and investment.
6 - 29 October 2020. The USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG) Annual Research Symposium will showcase academic research and field experience in Zambia related to land tenure and natural resource management online from
Read more about the event and register online.7-9 October 2020.
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative’s (BGRI) virtual technical workshop. Experts from global institutions such as Cornell University, CIMMYT, ICARDA, and the John Innes Centre, with presenters from Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Australia, Finland, Mexico, the United Kingdom and United States, will lead in-depth talks and discussions on the most pressing challenges facing global wheat security.
8 October 2020.
Next generation smallholders: What’s required to empower youth and the farmers of the future?8 October 2020. 2:00 – 3:30 PM EDT.
Caribbean Tree Planting: Empowering Youth Climate Action
8 October 2020.
09:00 AM- 10:30 AM EST.
Digital Innovation for Agriculture: Use of Technology and Data to Aggregate Retail Demand in African Cities; Learning from Twiga Foods in Kenya
9 October 2020.
Promote fresh produce farming and exports in Nigeria. Organised by the Nigerian-Belgian Chamber of Commerce in collaboration AFGEAN (Agricultural Fresh Produce Growers and Exporters Association of Nigeria (AFEGAN). This is a Nigerian - European initiative to promote fresh produce farming by providing introduction to training, access to finance, export possibilities.
12 October 2020. 14:30 CEST.
Catalyzing a science-based restoration movement in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration FAO
12-16 October 2020.
AgMIP8 Food Systems, Shocks, and Actions Since 2010, the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) community of experts has been advancing methods for improving predictions on the future performance of agricultural and food systems.
Tuesday, October 13 Wednesday, October 14 The CFS High-Level Special Event will have three plenary sessions, one per day:
- Day 1 | Taking stock of the global food security situation guided by the SOFI 2020 report and the HLPE report on Building a Global Narrative towards 2030;
- Day 2 | Reflecting on the impacts of COVID-19 on global food security and nutrition and efforts needed to “build back better”; and,
- Day 3 | Discussing the draft CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition and the draft CFS Policy Recommendations on Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches, and considering their relevance to the objectives of the UN Food Systems Summit.
CFS will organize 12 virtual partners events over the three days – 4 per day. The partners events (two in the morning before plenary and two in the afternoon after plenary), will be hosted/co-hosted and organized by CFS stakeholders. Each event will be allocated one and a half hours. Here is a Schedule of the 12 Partners Events. Selection:- 13 October 2020. 04:30 PM CEST. Connecting Agroecological and Integrated Policies in Times of Crisis
- 14 October 2020. Youth Engagement and Employment in
Agri-food systems: What Works? What Doesn’t
Work? What Could Work?
- 15 October 2020. Transformative Approaches to Advance
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for
Food Security, Improved Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture
Co-Organizers: European Union/FAO - 15 October 2020. Scaling-up investments for Climate Smart
Agriculture projects in Food Systems
Organizers:
Co-organiser: The Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture
(GACSA)
- 15 October 2020. The Potential, Practice, and Politics of
Repurposing Public Agriculture Support for
Healthy People, Planet and Economy
Co Organizers:
• Just Rural Transition
• World Bank
• Southern African Con federation of Farmers’ Unions
(SACAU)
• World Resources Institute
• WFO
This is an Africa-wide campaign aim at mobilizing a bottom up community based actions towards household food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture and ultimately accelerating Zero hunger targets where it matters.
20 October 2020. 8 EDT.
Innovative Tool for Assessing Cost-Effectiveness for Food Assistance +
Register. USAID + Tufts university
FAO and Tufts are co-hosting
technical series to review the basic drivers of malnutrition in Africa’s drylands and discuss an adapted conceptual framework for addressing acute malnutrition in Africa’s drylands.
- October 22 at 8:30AM EDT, 2:30PM CEST, 3:30PM EAT - Panel 1: Basic drivers of acute malnutrition: environment and seasonality
- October 29 at 9:30AM EDT, 2:30PM CET, 4:30PM EAT - Panel 2: Basic drivers of acute malnutrition: systems and institutions
- November 5 at 8:30AM EST, 2:30PM CET, 4:30PM EAT - Panel 3: Basic drivers of acute malnutrition: dryland livelihood systems, vulnerability, resilience and shocks
- November 12 at 8:30AM EST, 2:30PM CET, 4:30PM EAT - Panel 4: Next steps: how can the drivers of persistent malnutrition shape the response?
20 -22 October 2020.
2020 FANRPAN Annual Regional Policy Dialogue- 14:00 -16:30 SAST. The theme of the dialogue is “Building Better and Resilient Agriculture Food Systems”.
20 -21 October 2020.
Gene Editing in Agriculture and Food: Social Concerns, Public Engagement and Governance- Session 1 Sustainable business models: paying for the transition. Speakers include Eduardo Cuoco, Director, IFOAM Organics Europe
- Session 2 Rewarding agriculture’s potential solutions for biodiversity and climate change. Speakers include Tassos Haniotis, Director of Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis, Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission
- 31st Session - Hosted by the Government of Zimbabwe
- The FAO Regional Conference for Africa is a forum to discuss current country and regional priorities and pressing issues in the region including the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on food security and nutrition, the urgent need for food systems transformation, and innovations and partnerships
26 - 28 October 2020. Financing for Energy Transitions, FSR Global Energy Innovation Week
- Session 1: Digitalization and long-term investment in energy assets | October 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CEST
- Session 2: Public financing of green innovation: Matching offers and demand for financing | October 27, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CEST
- Session 3: Mobilising private investment for green, climate-resilient energy assets: The role of innovation in finance | October 29, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CEST
- 28/10/2020, 09:30 - 11:00 (Online) Technological innovations to realise sustainable food systems – part 1
- 28/10/2020, 11:30 - 13:00 (Online) Technological innovations to realise sustainable food systems – part 2
FAO Regional Review of Aquaculture
- 26 October 2020. 10:00 - 11:00. Regional Review of Aquaculture in Asia and the Pacific [Register]
- 26 October 2020. 13:00 - 14:00. Regional Review of Aquaculture in Europe [Register]
- 27 October 2020. 13:00 - 14:00. Regional Review of Aquaculture in North Africa and the Near East [Register]
- 27 October 2020. 16:00 - 17:00. Regional Review of Aquaculture in North America [Register]
- 28 October 2020. 13:00 - 14:00. Regional Review of Aquaculture in Sub Saharan Africa [Register]
- 28 October 2020. 16:00 - 17:00. Regional Review of Aquaculture in Latin America and the Caribbean [Register]
- 29 October 2020. 13:00 - 14:30. Presentation of The State of World Aquaculture 2020 [Register]
29-30 October 2020. "What does it take to end hunger and how much will it cost?"
9 November 2020.
From Asia to Near East and North Africa: Multistakeholder engagement for transformation of food system to deliver healthy diet and improve nutrition
12 November 2020.
Pastoralism and conflict – rethinking the phenomenon?- Improve the productivity, resilience and competitiveness of European Animal Production
- registration closes on 11 November
17-19 November 2020. Financing agricultural water (with FAO)
- Europe needs to rethink its own food system in the global context. There is a need for transnational solidarity, research programming and investment to build a European Research Area that includes all of Europe, to ensure solutions for European society’s sustainable future. Thus, the event will give a platform for discussion with the wider public, a specific forum for researchers and additional fora for policy makers from Member States’ ministries and European institutions.
- The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) celebrates its ten year anniversary by engaging in a high-level science-policy discussion. The aim is threefold, i) highlighting the European societal challenges including the key research concerns, ii) exploring potential new pathways by showcasing the past scientific results, and iii) prioritisation of the science–policy discussion together with the national and European decision makers about the strategic urgencies.
18-22 January 2021.
Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2021
