Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Upcoming webinars and meetings

1 February 2022 | Leap4FNSSA - Alliance Building from Model to Practice
3 February 2022 | Leap4FNSSA - AU-EU Platform Co-Development
8 February 2022 | Leap4FNSSA - Linking Research & Practice at Programme Level
10 February 2022 | Leap4FNSSA - Knowledge Management and Communication Framework
15 February2022 | Leap4FNSSA - Future AU-EU Funder’s Collaboration - For Funders Only

3 February 2022. Can agricultural policies deliver better value for money for people, the planet, and the economy? Co-Organized by IFPRI and World Bank Group

3 February 2022. Setting the scene: Nutrition Outlook 2022, by Nutrition Conversations Africa (NCAfrica) hosted by Wandieville in partnership with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).

3 February 2022. Catalysing young African agri-entrepreneurs' investments - Catalyser les investissements des jeunes agri-entrepreneurs africains The Session Innovations N°8 jointly organised by the PAFO and COLEACP

3 February 2022. VALUE4HER Talk Corner 
with Ms. Linda K Manyeza the Founding Director of Food Masters South Africa and Ms. Jolenta Joseph the Managing Director of Sanavita Company Limited, Tanzania. 

8 February 2022. Innovation Capacities in the Latin American Agricultural Innovation Systems Capacidades para innovar en los sistemas de innovación agrícola de América Latina: Avances 2021-22 by Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture by IICA and FAO's Research and Extension, Office of Innovation (OIN) - Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers (TECA) Webinar

SCALE and PRO-WASH are hosting a webinar with Dr. Suzanne Carter from SouthSouthNorth as she shares learnings from two recently completed programs, Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) and Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER), that used a range of co-production approaches to focus on service delivery, disaster risk reduction and development, based on user needs.

8 February 2022 | Leap4FNSSA - Linking Research & Practice at Programme Level

9 February 2022. COVID-19 Impacts on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods. by APRA, Foresight4Food, and SDSN 

9 February 2022. 2022 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme. Virtual Info Session. The Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) is teaming up with the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) to host a virtual information session on their 2022 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. African entrepreneurs with business ideas or existing businesses under 5 years, are encouraged to apply now for $5000 seed capital, mentorship, business management training and more on www.TEFConnect.net.

10 February 2022.1200 – 1330 East African time  AFSA: advancing agroecology practice/natural farming
  • AFSA is organizing 4 sessions in which organizations who are part of AFSA members will share how their work with farmers to advance agroecology practice/natural farming is going. 27 January, 10 February, 24 February, 10 March
  • 10/02  Presentation of work of RUCID - Mityana in Uganda, OACK from Muranga’a county in Central Kenya and the Malawi chapter of regional Scope who work with schools and communities surrounding schools around Malawi.
  • Join Zoom Meeting here / Passcode: 585005
10 February 2022. Food Systems Dialogue: Developing a Call to Action: Small-scale Farmers’ Policy Priorities co-hosted by PAFO, EAFF, SDG HUB, IISD, and WFO.

10 February 2022. AGRIBUSINESS INCUBATION AND ACCELERATION LANDSCAPE IN AFRICA This Webinar will include a presentation on key results from two recent studies on Agribusiness Incubation and Acceleration by Anne Roulin from the Agripreneurship Alliance on SME Enterprise Support Organization by Ify Umunna on Nourishing Africa.


10 February 2022. World Pulses Day celebration. by FAO





14 – 1 7 February 2022. The AERAP Africa-Europe Science Collaboration Platform will organise side events at the AU-EU Summit
  • 14/02 11:00 CET Promoting a sustainable EU-AU partnership through university collaboration -  Convened by African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)
  • 15/02 08:00 CET Green Deal Convened by CIFOR-ICRAF
  • 16/0214:00 CET Belmont Forum: Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2022
  • 16/02 16:00 CET  A presentation on the interface between Horizon Europe and NDIC/Global Europe
    Nienke Buisman is Head of Unit International Cooperation Policy in the European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation - is in charge of developing and implementing the ‘Global Approach to Research and Innovation’, Europe’s strategy for international cooperation, specifically focussing on Africa, Asia
  • 16/02 17:00 CET Africa IP SME Helpdesk
  • 17/02 14:00 CET Investing in science and innovation in Africa Convened by EIB/IMF/VCs
  • 17/02 15:00 CET Industry Platform for Agri research & innovation
    Speakers of this session include: Petronella Chaminuka (Agriculture Research Council, South Africa), Jennie van der Mheen (Wageningen) Tom Arnold (Rural Taskforce Africa)
  • 17/02 16:00 CET Africa-EU collaboration on the SDGs and Local2030 - Convened by AERAP and UNDP
  • 18/02 10:00 CET South -South Science and Innovation Cooperation - Convened Professor Mammo Muchie by Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
  • 18/02 15:00 CET Ireland Africa Rural Development Committee with Tom Arnold
14-18 February 2022. Africa-Europe Week,
European Union leaders and African Union member states will meet in Brussels for the 6th European Union - African Union summit on 17 and 18 February 2022. In the run-up to the summit, the first edition of the Africa-Europe week will be a key moment to bring together young people, civil society and the private sector from Africa and Europe to discuss the aspects of the Africa-EU Partnership that matter to them the most: Youth Track + Civil Society and Local Authorities Forums
16-17 February 2022. 7th EU-AFRICA Business Forum (EABF22)
  • TAAT Investors Forum hosted by Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), a flagship program from the African Development Bank.

15 February2022 | Leap4FNSSA - Future AU-EU Funder’s Collaboration - For Funders Only

15 February 2022. 2:00 - 5:00 pm EAT. Fifth Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action (GPA) - by UNEP and the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities

15 February 2022. RICE-FISH INNOVATIONS: good practices for small agricultural producers. by FAO's Research and Extension, Office of Innovation (OIN) - Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers (TECA) Webinar


15 February 2022. 01:30 PM  CET GFAR Talks: UNFSS...Where next?


16 February 2022. 10 AM GMT Preparing to Trade Under the AfCFTA - for Women-Owned Business, Female Entrepreneur, or Woman Exporter

16 February 2022.  A Decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Lessons from Using Empowerment Metrics by CGIAR


17-18 February 2022. European Union - African Union summit 
  • Following topics will be debated: growth financing, health systems and vaccine production, agriculture and sustainable development, education, culture and vocational training, migration and mobility, private sector support and economic integration, peace, security and governance, climate change and energy transition, digital and transport [connectivity and infrastructure]
18 February 2022. 11:00 to 12:30 CET AgriFI, the Agriculture Financing Initiative by INTPA Infopoint

  • Showcasing European funded projects, the event will highlight: projects and other initiatives supporting sustainable farming; multi-actor and participative projects with relevant actors of the food chain; multilateral approaches for greater efficiency and dissemination of outcomes. 
  • European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development 
  • With Ms Ismahane Elouafi, FAO chief scientist
  • CGIAR, PRIMA, FARA on DeSIRA

22 February 2022. 7:00 - 8:30 am EST. Circular business models enabled by due diligence – testimonies from African textile SMEs by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

  • The session will present on the development of the Coalition. 
  • The Director of the Food Systems Coordination Hub, Stefanos Fotiou, will join the meeting, as well as several members of the Coalition including Nancy Aburto, Deputy Director Food and Nutrition Division of FAO, Namukolo Covic, Director General’s Representative of ILRI Ethiopia, and others.
23 February 2022. Good beekeeping practices for sustainable apiculture by FAO, with the support of Apimondia, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the Apicultural Science Association of China (ASAC) and the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Lazio e Toscana

23 February 2022. Innovation Policy: Securing Africa’s Future - how African governments can accelerate policymaking related to innovation and digital technology 

23 February 2022.  2:00 PM (EET) Positive Nutrition: Evolving Ingredient Trends in the Middle East and Africa Streaming Live organised by Food Ingredients Africa

23-24 February 2022. Global Review and Assessment of Public Agricultural Extension and Advisory Service Systems

22-23 February 2022. Dubai Expo. Food for Future Summit UN-FAO’S AGRI INNOVATION DAYS
  • 22/02: DIGITAL AGRICULTURE: POLICIES AND PATHWAYS:  by ITU)
  • 22/02: HIGH-LEVEL PANEL: TRADE, INNOVATION, AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR FOOD SECURITY IN THE MENA
  • 22/02: YOUTH DRIVING AGRIFOOD INNOVATION 
  • 22/02: BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS FOR AGRIFOOD SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION
  • 23/02: SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND FOOD: THE CUTTING EDGE IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH
  • 23/02: HIGH-LEVEL PANEL: THE COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD SECURITY – FROM COMMITMENT TO ACTION - CFS Ministerial Event at the Agri-food Innovation Days at Dubai Expo
  • 23/02: FOOD SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION IN ACTION: THE CFS VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES ON FOOD SYSTEMS AND NUTRITION (VGFSN) 
  • 23/02: CFS-VGFSN: Segment 1: Achieving food systems transformation: the role of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) + 
  • 23/02: CFS-VGFSN:Segment 2: Fireside chat CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition: 
  • 23/02: CFS-VGFSN: Segment 3: National and regional actions, plans and commitments to use the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition
  • 23/02: DISRUPTIVE AGRIFOOD SOLUTIONS LED BY BUSINESSES
  • 23/02: TRAILBLAZING WOMEN AND YOUTH IN MENA AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS
23-24 February 2022. Dubai expo. Global Leaders’ Symposium - extracts
  • 23/02: AFRICA – AN AGRICULTURAL VISION MAP TO SUPPLY THE WORLD IN THE 21ST CENTURY with Agnes Kalibata (AGRA)
  • 24/02: DRIVING FOOD SECURITY WITH NUTRITION SECURITY with Dr. Lawrence Haddad (GAIN)

23-24 February 2022. Dubai expo. Food for Future – Making it Happen - extracts:
  • 23/02: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE – THE NEXT STAGE IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
  • 23/02: LEVERAGING FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA TO ENABLE THE DIGITAL AGRICULTURE REVOLUTION
  • 23/02: IMPACT AND PROMISE OF DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR SMALLHOLDER FARMERS
  • 23/02: BEYOND TECHNOLOGY – BEST PRACTICES IN SUSTAINABLE AND ORGANIC FARMING IN HARSH CONDITIONS
  • 24/02: BALANCING SUSTAINABILITY AND VIABILITY ACROSS FOOD PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
  • 24/02: BUSINESS MODEL REBOOT FOR RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS AND AFFORDABLE QUALITY FOOD
  • 24/02: PROTEIN POSSIBILITIES AND PROMISES – CONSUMER TRENDS AND COMMERCIAL OUTLOOKS
23-24 February 2022. 9:30 - 11:00 CET MENA Agri-Food Innovation Days

24 February 2022. 12:30 CET. CFS High Level Ministerial Event at Expo Dubai 2020

24 February 2022. 15:00 - 16:30 CET. Innovations in Rural Digital Financial Services and Remittances in Africa. This event is part of the World Bank’s “What’s Cooking” data-driven digital agriculture webinar series.
Digital Agri Hub, en partenariat avec Enabel organise un évènement sous le thème « Renforcer l'accent sur la numérisation de l'agriculture dans les pays francophones à revenu faible ou intermédiaire ».

24 February 2022.1200 – 1330 East African time  AFSA: advancing agroecology practice/natural farming: Healthy Soil Healthy Food
  •  presentations from Groundswell who work with partners across West Africa, Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre in Zambia, and Chinyika in a drier part of Zimbabwe.
  • Meeting ID: 876 4519 6601, 
    Passcode: 585005
  • AFSA is organizing 4 sessions in which organizations who are part of AFSA members share how their work with farmers to advance agroecology practice/natural farming is going. 27 January, 10 February, 24 February, 10 March
  • This is the link to the recording of the session on February 10th in which RUCID, OACK and Scope-Malawi shared some of their experiences of putting agroecology into practice through the lenses of the natural farming principles.
24th February 2022 at 14:00hrs -16:00hrs East African Time (EAT). AfCFTA - Trade in Services.  Join the webinar via: shorturl.at/wENY3

25 February 2022. Addressing the Systemic Causes of Small-Scale Actors’ Vulnerability in Aquatic Food Systems: The CGIAR resilient aquatic food systems initiative. By CGIAR


1 March 2022 COVID-19 in Traditional Markets — Evidence of Consumer and Vendor Resilience During a Global Pandemic


3-4 March 2022. The Africa Food Sustainability Summit

3-4 March 2022. UNEP@50

9 March, 2022. Independent UNFSS Dialogue Future Foods - Johannesburg, South Africa

9-10 March 2022. Virtual Conference The Future of ICTforAg

10-13 March 2022, in Bonn, Germany International Conference for Youth in Agriculture 2022 (ICYA22)

14 March 2022 Less talk, more action: turning the soil story around A pre-ForumforAg 2022 event


Africa Agri Tech is positioned as the annual meeting point where the Southern African agricultural community can gather to explore the technological and scientific advances that will assist agribusinesses to maximise their outputs and increase their profitability in the future.

17 March 2022. BLOCKCHAIN AFRICA CONFERENCE 2022

20-23 March 2022. Farming System Design (FSD7) 

  • Webinars on Capacity Development in Systems Research for the transformation of agri-food systems to achieve Sustainable Development Goals under climate change


4 - 9 April 2022. Applying agricultural interventions and rural development strategies: Sustainable and bio-diverse agro-ecosystems for smallholder resilience.
  • The workshop is organized as part of the project “RLC Platform for Young East African Scientists – Improving the Productivity and Resilience of Smallholder Farming” which is jointly conducted by the RLC Campus Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Ger-many, the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ awarded organization Biovision Africa Trust, Nairobi, Kenya, the RLC Campus Lund, Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Lund University, Sweden, among other partners.
  • Who can apply? PhD students from East Africa that are currently completing their PhD at an East African university. The deadline is March 6, 2022

25 April - 8 May 2022. Convention on Biological Diversity (Part 2) - Kunming, China 

3-5 May 2022. 4th International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance - Bridging Science and Policy - Copenhagen, Denmark. 

11-13 May 2022. 15th Edition eLearning Africa Kigali, Rwanda. 

20 June - 1 July 2022. The Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy conference. The call for abstracts is now open.

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