Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Monday, February 28, 2022

Upcoming webinars and events

1 March 2022 at 17:30. Nature Based Solutions to achieve Human-Wildlife Coexistence by Wageningen University

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

1 March 2022. Speed Matters: How Digital Imaging Can Create a More Resilient Crop in a Changing Climate by Agrilinks/USAID

2 March 2022. FAO Scientific and Academic Sector Consultation Latin America and the Caribbean


3 March 2022. A Multi-Actor Dialogue: Bamboo Sectoral Development for a Green Circular Economy in West Africa by INBAR West Africa Regional Office (WARO).

3 March 2022. 3 PM CEST/CAT Geodata for Improved Water Management and Climate Action. By World Bank


7 March 2022. 12:00 CET/CAT Agrifood systems facing climate change in the MENA region: gender equality for better resilience


7 March 2022. 15:30 CET/CAT Women’s Land Rights and Access to Results-Based Climate Finance in REDD+ programs Webinar registrants will receive a copy of the full report and country profiles with the webinar recording.

9 March, 2022. Future Foods - Johannesburg, South Africa

9-10 March 2022. Virtual Conference The Future of ICT for Ag (see below extracts)
10 March 2022. 12:00 CET/CAT Policy brief launch by Agroforestry Network by SIANI

10 March 2022, 1 pm CET, 3 pm East Africa Time (EAT). Launch of the Third (3rd) CAADP Biennial Review (BR) Report
  • In the 3rd BR cycle, 51 countries (out of 55) reported performance across 46 indicators.
  • The 3rd BR report, titled “Accelerating CAADP Implementation for a Resilient African Food System” will be an important basis for dialogue and action on agricultural development in Africa.


10-11 March 2022.  16.00 – 17:30 (CET). Symposium: 200 years Gregor Mendel: of peas, cows and people

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



15-17 March 2022. SOUTHERN AFRICA'S AGRI-TECH TRENDS & TECHNOLOGY 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.

15-17 March 2022. Soil Regeneration Summit: Farming for the Future
  • 15/03 What is Regenerative Agriculture? Discover some of the various perspectives and definitions from pioneers in the field in this rapidly evolving movement. Presenters will share some of their techniques and insights along with the challenges they have faced.
  • 16/03 Solutions Offered by Regenerative Practices. Resilience to extreme weather events, protection of biodiversity, and improvements to human health: these are just a few of the potential solutions that Regenerative practices can offer.
  • 17/03 The Science Behind Regenerative Ag. We’ll take a deep dive into the world of soil, plants, and biology with an array of topics and scientists.


16 – 18 March: First session of the COAG Sub-Committee on Livestock


16-18 March 2022. First session of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG)  Sub-Committee on Livestock  by FAO

17 March 2022. 11:00 CET Zoonoses, food production and WaSH with presentations from Kenya and Burkina.

  • Book available online: Lele U., Agarwal M, Baldwin B.C. , and Goswami S. (2021)  Food for All International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture # 1063 p.
  • This volume analyzes the structure, coordination, and management of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Food Programme (WFP), World Bank --the largest international funder of policy advice and investment projects, and CGIAR, a leading funder of international agricultural research.
22-25 March 2022. Farming System Design (FSD7)
  • 22/03. 10:00AM-12:00PM (GMT+2) Webinar 1: Systemic transformation of agri-food systems
  • 23/03. 10:00AM-12:00PM (GMT+2) Webinar 2: Designing climate smart and resilient cereal-livestock based farming systems for food and nutrition security in the drylands of Africa and Asia
  • 24/03. 10:00AM-12:00PM (GMT+2) Webinar 3: Webinar 3: Multi-scale and multi-criteria trade-off analysis in the SDG1-SDG2 nexus, to co-design sustainable and healthy agri-food systems and inform policies.
  • 25/03. 10:00AM-12:00PM (GMT+2) Webinar 4: Accelerating and amplifying systemic transformation of agri-food systems with digitalization of research and advisory services to family farmers and decision makers
  • There are eight different sessions set to take place throughout the three weeks.
  • March 22. 14:00 to 15:30 UTC Sharing experiences and creating digital dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • March 24. 14:00 to 15:00 UTC Creating an RDA community in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • March 29. 14:00 to 15:30 UTC Plant-pollinator interactions data standards
  • April 1. 9:00 to 10:30 UTC Ethical and legal issues around agricultural data
  • April 4. 14:00 to 15:30 UTC Platforms for agricultural data: how to address the fragmented landscape?
  • April 5. 14:00 to 15:30 UTC FAIRifying data and code for Artificial Intelligence in agricultural production
  • April 6. 15:00-16:30 UTC Governance of farm-level digital technologies and agricultural data
  • April 7. 15:00-16:30 UTC Platforms for agricultural data: how to address the fragmented landscape? (Part 2)
23 March 2022. The Africa-EU Energy Partnership - seventh edition of its Energy Talks
  • This webinar will explore the energy outcomes of the EU-AU Summit and the priorities Africa and Europe should focus on ahead of COP27.

23 March 2022. APRA e-Dialogue on 'Transition Pathways and Strategies for Food System Transformation - This dialogue will begin with a set of short presentations and expert commentaries, including:
  • Oil palm commercialisation, changing gender relations, and agricultural transformation in Ghana
  • Gender and social differentiation in the context of Malawi’s groundnut commercialisation
  • Rice and sunflower commercialisation and differential pathways for livelihood improvement: A Tanzania case study
  • Politics, power and social differentiation in African agricultural value chains
  • Policies and strategies to support inclusive agricultural commercialisation and food system transformation



23-25 March 2022. Integrating TAP common framework into African Research and Extension organisations 
  • The 3 days course will develop capacity of the trainees on Tropical Agriculture Platform common framework, Agricultural Innovation Systems concepts and tools, systems thinking and functional capacity development.

24 march 2022. 15:30 - 16:45 CET.  Developing and scaling regenerative agriculture


24 March. 2 PM CET Women's roles in agriculture
  • By World Food Price Digital dialogue.| She Who Provides: Agriculture and Climate Essentials
  • unique gender-based constraints women face to ensure our food systems are sustainable and the critical functions women have in addressing climate change and agriculture.
  • With CHARITY MUTEGI
28-29 March 2022. The Global Solutions Summit, taking place in hybrid format in Berlin, will focus on policy recommendations for the G7 and the G20.


28 March 2022. 14:00 CEST. John D. Lui: Ecosystem Restoration Camps | Soil Food Web School

28 March 2022. Part 1 16:00 - 17:00 | Part 2: 21:00 - 24:00 CEST “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all - our responsibility, our opportunity”

29 March 2022. AKADEMIYA2063 Board Seminar
  • The event aims to raise LDC actors’ awareness and understanding of SRM techniques and the governance challenges they present and the context for even considering them, such as to how to compare use and non-use scenarios to support decision making, and to explore how to enable further learning and capacity building.
29-30 March 2022. ECHO East Africa Pastoralist Sympoium

  • This panel will bring together diverse voices from the frontlines of addressing OH implementation for strengthening public health and food systems resilience in a Global south context.


31 March 2022. 10:00-12:00 EST. Agriculture Trade : opportunities for SMEs and businesses in export markets IICA-COLEACP Caribbean Agrifood Business Session

31 March 2022. Youth - From ‘’who and how’’ to countries’ examples by FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa (RNE)/FAO Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP)

31 of March 2022, 13h00-15h00 CEST/GMT+2. Putting food system thinking into sector practice: Policy decision making on food system transformation.

5-6 April 2022. Regional consultation Africa Stockholm+50
  • Working Group 4: ‘SUSTAINABLE AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS
  • Working Group 5: ‘CIRCULAR ECONOMY
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

6 - 8 April 2022. Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) restricted meeting

7 April 2022. Applying lessons from 4R Solutions in a time of uncertainty ( (Right Source @ Right Rate, Right Time, Right Place) by AFAP


8 April 2022. 12:30 CEST. High-level virtual event: Scaling up Agroecology Initiative
  • Three years into the implementation of the Initiative, this webinar aims at sharing initial achievements, success stories and collective understanding of the enabling environment that takes agroecology forward on the ground, in different contexts and at different levels.
  • Check out the programme and register here or follow via webcast.
12 April 2022, 16:00 - 18:00 JST, 08:00 -10:00 CET. Asian Regional Launch of Digital Agri Hub

  • The online seminar, is organized by the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) alongside the XV World Forestry Congress.
  • This opportunity is open for all journalists from around the world with a passion for learning and raising awareness about the essential role of forests in the global sustainable agenda.
25 April - 8 May 2022. Convention on Biological Diversity (Part 2) - Kunming, China

2-6 May 2022. XV World Forestry Congress


2-3 June 2022. Stockholm+50

7 June 2022. World Food Safety Day

17 June 2022. World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

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

21-22 June 2022 European Development Days (EDD 2022) – taking place in Brussels and online. The 15th edition will focus on “Global Gateway: building sustainable partnerships for a connected world.”


7-18 November 2022. UN COP27: Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
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