Thursday, October 1, 2020

Upcoming webinars during the month of October

1 October 2020 – 16:00 PM WEBINAR: CGIAR webinar series on climate security - A Partnership Agenda for Climate Security

1 October 2020. 09:00 AM- 10:30 AM EST. Blockchain as a Solution to make Sensitive Food Supply & Value Chains Resilient and Transparent

1 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 

3 October 2020. Water Scarcity and Flood Risk Adaptation Strategies

5-8 October 2020. The Future of Food Assistance for Nutrition: Evidence Summit II. Organised by the USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and the Food Aid Quality Review project managed by
the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University 

6 October 2020. 10:00 AM Cairo. Water Productivity Talks webinar series - Water Productivity baseline: introduction, aim of the study, current status, and issues limiting advances. Organised by the FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa.

6 - 7 October 2020.  CGIAR: 1st Meeting of the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC)

7 October 2020. 15:00-16:30 EAT. Regional Policy Dialogue on Enhancing Cross Border Trade and Food Security through Data and Information Sharing. Organised by ASARECA in partnership with IFPRI



7 October 2020. 14.30 – 16.00 CEST. Affordable Healthy Diets for All: the Role of Food Fortification in a Time of Pandemic. Co-hosted by GAIN, Nutrition Connect and SUN.

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. 

12-16 October 2020. 2020 International Borlaug Dialogue Building Resilience Today for Improved Global Food Systems Tomorrow. See the agenda. Hereunder are selected side events:

Monday, October 12
Thursday, October 15
13 October 2020. Regulation and Genome Edited Plants. Organised by One CGIAR Global Webinar Series - "Applications of Genome Editing in Agriculture: CGIAR Focus on Livestock and Aquaculture"

13 October 2020. A WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER IS POSSIBLE.
13 October 2020. 7.30-8.30 am CDT. Small-Scale Irrigation, Resilience and Nutrition: Can we have it All? UNSCN, Africa Union Commission, SEWA, Texas A&M, and IFPRI at the World Food Prize Side Event

13 October 2020. @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm. Boosting rural job creation and economic growth . LEAP4FNSSA webinar. 

13 - 15 October 2020. CFS High-Level Special Event on Global Governance of Food Security and Nutrition
The CFS High-Level Special Event will have three plenary sessions, one per day:
  1. 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;
  2. Day 2 | Reflecting on the impacts of COVID-19 on global food security and nutrition and efforts needed to “build back better”; and,
  3. 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

14 October 2020. Carbon Revenues from Climate Impacts Reduction in Agriculture and Agribusiness

15 October 2020. 7 am CDT. Scaling Soils Restoration: A Roadmap for Action (Borlaug Dialogue Side Event). Co-hosted by FARA and ASARECA

15 October 2020. 4 pm - 6 pm . Regulating African Food imports and market in Belgium
Speaker: Dr. Jan Van Seghbroeck, Attaché-expert Imports FAVV-AFSCA. Belgian Food Agency
Registration with: thefoodbridge@gmail.com


15 October 2020. 11.00 – 14.00 hours GMT (14.00-16.00 hours EAT. Sustainable Brewing & Drinks in Africa webinar.

15 October 2020. 16:00 CEST. eFishery: Creating the future of aquaculture with an IoT smart feeding technology to help millions of farmers at the bottom of the pyramid

16 October 2020. World Food Day event in collaboration with the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP). Organised by the United Community of African Students (UCAS) of Wageningen University and Research (WUR) 

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.


12th-16th October 2020. KENYA YOUTH AND AGROECOLOGY NATIONAL SUMMIT 2020

16-22 October 2020.  RWANDA YOUTH AND AGROECOLOGY NATIONAL SUMMIT 2020
  • AgriProFocus with support from IKEA Foundation is currently implementing a three year 2020-2022 initiative “Youth in Agroecology and Business Learning Track Africa (YALTA)” which is aimed to support young agripreneurs to apply agroecological principles and to co-create networks around them, in view of contributing to the increased sustainability of food systems and youth employment.
19-21 October 2020. MycoKey 2020. Final International Conference on-line. “Integrated and innovative key actions for mycotoxin management in the food and feed chain”

20 October 2020. 09:30 am to 10:45 am (EDT) The African Agriculture Trade Monitor 2020

20 October 2020. Path to Commercialization for Genome Edited Crops. Organised by One CGIAR Global Webinar Series - "Applications of Genome Editing in Agriculture: CGIAR Focus on Livestock and Aquaculture"

20 October 2020. 14:00 CEST. Urban Parks, Urban Futures: Insights from Africa 

20 October 2020. 2:00pm to 3:30pm BST. ‘How to Design Effective SBC Messages and Materials’ GIZ in collaboration with the ANH Academy has prepared a series of webinars on using social and behaviour change (SBC) for improved agriculture and nutrition.

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


22 October 2020. 12:00 GMT/1:00 WAT/2:00 CAT/3:00 EAT. Digitalization of extension. Organised by AFAAS. Watch the video announcement here

23 October 2020. 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. CEST. Driving Digital Commerce for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: Sub-Saharan Africa

23 October 2020 from 14:00-15:30 (GMT+2). Why sustainable beekeeping?
  • See here the tentative programme and the speakers’ and panelists bio
  • Animal Production and Health Division and FAO Livestock Technical Network
25 October 2020. 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. CEST. 

26 October 2020. Call for proposals - Accelerating the green transition and energy access Partnership with Africa!
  • In September 2020, the European Commission launched a €1 billion call for research and innovation projects that respond to the climate crisis and help protect Europe's unique ecosystems and biodiversity. The Horizon 2020-funded European Green Deal Call will spur Europe's recovery from the coronavirus crisis by turning green challenges into innovation opportunities. More information about this can be found in the press release.
  • The EU Delegation to the African Union is organising a Webinar on the 26th October to answer questions related to this call. To register for a Webinar, please go here: https://eutoau.blumm.it/event/ar/1/evento

26 October, 10:00 – 10:45 AM CET. “European Green Deal – what are the next steps?” (by International Energy Agency – IEA)
  • A a conversation with European Commission Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal Frans Timmermans and IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol.
  • 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
26 - 28 October 2020.FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC)
  • 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
26 - 28 October 2020. The G-STIC conference
  • 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]
27 October 2020. 1.30 p.m. The finale of the Innovation Challenge
  • In March and April 2020, the GIZ Agricultural Innovation Fund (AIF) published the call for its "Innovation Challenge 2020" on behalf of the BMZ. 
  • The aim of this competition is to find and promote innovative local ideas in GIZ partner countries that contribute to a more efficient and sustainable agricultural sector along the entire value chain. In the end, more than 1,000 people from Africa and Southeast Asia submitted their ideas and participated in the Innovation Challenge.
27 October 2020. 9:30am – 11:00 CET and 3:00pm – 4:30 CET. Online Forum on Building climate resilient food systems based on the 10 Agroecology elements


27-29 October 2020. Shaping the Future of Food Markets for Agroecology in Africa : A virtual conference

28-29 October 2020. 8am-5pm CEST. LEAP4FNSSA West Africa Workshop

28 October 2020.9:00-10:00am EDT (UTC-4) Harnessing Food Safety to Address Global Food Security by the Feed The Future Food Safety Innovation Lab.  The first webinar in this series will explore how data-driven food safety policy and practices can transform food systems and promote global food security.

29 October 2020. 13h (GMT+1), 14h EAT. Animal health challenges in pastoralist areas

29 October 2020.10-11 a.m. CDT (11 a.m. EST/15:00 UTC) | Water Policy Group 


29-30 October 2020. "What does it take to end hunger and how much will it cost?"
  • See here the tentative programme and the speakers’ and panelists bio
  • Animal Production and Health Division and FAO Livestock Technical Network
30 October 2020. Indigenous Food and Seed Fair happening

3 November 2020. Nutrition and Livestock in Emergencies

4 November 2020. Assessing predictors and metrics of diet quality in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: The intersection of agriculture, nutrition, and health

3-5 November 2020. Africa Food Environment Research Network (virtual) Meeting + Registration MEALS4NCDs project secretariat at the University of Ghana, objective: Identify current food environment research priorities for Africa.

5 November 2020. Technical Series on the conceptual framework for addressing acute malnutrition in Africa's drylands. Hosted by FAO and Tufts University: Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy


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.  | 10-11 a.m. CDT (11 a.m. EST/15:00 UTC) | Innovation in Irrigation



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)


26 November 2020. 17:00 SGT (GMT+8) Building Smallholder Capacities in Africa 

26 - 27 November 2020. FACCE-JPI 10 Year Event
  • 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.
1-2 December 2020. First Biennial Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Stakeholders Conference CAADP-XP4 Organizations (FARA, AFAAS, CORAF, ASARECA, CCARDESA) and Partners (AUDA-NEPAD, FAO, CCAFS, AGNES, CSAYN)

10-12 December 2020. Virtual APIEXPO AFRICA 2020

18-22 January 2021. Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2021
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