Webinars January

5-8 January 2024, Beijing. 4th World Conference on Sheep 

• onsite-online integrated hybrid model, 

8 January 2024 @8:30am EST Hybrid Book Launch, Food System Transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the Past and Policy Options for the Future

10 January 2024.  Global NARS Consortium (GNC) implementation plan.

• Regional meeting of the Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) 

10 January 2024. 3 pm CET Localizing AI for Agriculture: Success and Challenges

11 January 2024, 9:00-10:30 am EST Digitalizing and Democratizing Agri Finance for Smallholder Farmers

12 January 2024. 10:00 AM CET Livestock in agroecological farming systems by AFSA

• Find the presentations of previous webinars here

16 January 2024. 10:00 AM CET  PRIMA Info Day

• Outcome document published 12/12/23 SFS-MED Webinar “Green growth for sustainable agrifood systems in the Mediterranean region”

15 - 19 January 20240 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

• 16/01 9:30–10:15 CET An African Economy of Scale  
• 16/01 16:15–17:00 CET Treating Soil as a Precious Resource with Ibrahim Thiaw & Agnes Kalibata
• 16/01 16:15–16:45 CET Forests as a Climate and Livelihood Solution with Jane Goodall
• 17/01 10:00–10:30 CET A Conversation with William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya
• 17/01 17:30–18:15 CET Bold Steps for a Sustainable MENA
• 18/01 8:00 - 8:30 CET New Private Sector Plan to Boost African Trade
• 18/01 10:15–11:00 CET BRICS in Expansion
• 18/01 13:15–14:00 CET MENA's Economic Dilemma: Reforming amid Uncertainty
• 18/01 13:15–14:00 CET First Movers Coalition for Food - more investment is needed to scale the production of low-carbon, nature-positive food commodities, such as beef cattle, dairy, rice, row crops, soy and palm oil.
• 18/01 15:00–15:45 CET  Land Use: Managing the Trade-offs - With growing and competing demands on land for food, feed, fuel and fibre, what are the practical approaches and incentives needed to rationalize the competing demands?
19/01 9:00–9:45 CET Rebuilding Trust in Science with Bonginkosi Emmanuel "Blade" Nzimande Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of South Africa

16 January 2024. 4 – 5 p.m. Paris; 5 – 6 p.m. Nairobi Catalysts of Change: Women Leaders in Science

• Cynthia Rosenzweig - Senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

16 January 2024 @15:00 CET Investing in restoration: Can regreening landscapes catalyze peace and security in the Horn of Africa? 

17 January 2024 15:00- 16:30 (CET) Land Rights for Sustainable Development - The Role of Data" 

17 - 19 January 2024. Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2024

• 18/01 @4:00 PM-5:30 PM Ready, steady, go! Towards a successful implementation of the EU Regulation on deforestation: Dr. T. Baldauf, C. Grütters, S. Tischer, C. Alarcon, C. Metzner
• 18/01 @ 4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Reducing food loss and waste of fruits and vegetables: The potential of urban(izing) food systems: Dr. A. Hildebrandt, D. Larrousse, J. Tiago Carapau, A. Tasse, Dr. L. Mizzi, R. Okowa, M. Kosmus, Dr. L. Haddad
• 18/01 @16-00-17.30 CET School meal nutrition standards as a tool to support the right to food in schools, FAO and WFP: Dr. F. Hachem, Dr. N. Aburto, N. Lugangira, J. Rosenberg, S. Müller, K. Silva Dos Santos
• 18/01 @4:00 PM-5:30 PM Equity against hunger – CFS policy recommendations for equitable food systems :  B. Shankar, Dr. L. Depenbusch, D. Woods, E. Cruzada, M. Wolter
• 18/01 @4:00 PM-5:30 PM New due diligence requirements for companies in the agri-food sector: norm diffusion and partner uptake: Prof. Dr. A. Spiller, Prof. Dr. C. Wieck, S. Gnych, Dr. J. Graf von Keyserlingk, G. Beger, Dr. B. Rudloff, Dr. L. Mizzi
• 18/01 @4:00 PM-5:30 PM Food, Climate, and Security: Joining Forces for a Safer Tomorrow: J. Maro, S. Menker, C. Özdemir, Dr. M. Werz, P. Rushton, J. Sacko, Director M. Frick
• 19/01 @9:30 AM-11:00 AM The importance of transparency for the smooth functioning of global agricultural brands: E. Marques, Dr. J. Glauber, Dr. M. Torero Cullen, C. Geslain-Lanéelle, R. Yoneda, A. Petit, D. Drechsler, Dr. S. Meyer
• 19/01 @9:30 AM-11:00 AM: Prospects for achieving food systems transformation through agroecology : R. Cluset, O. Oliveros, Prof. Dr. U. Niggli, J. Akia Luyimbazi, S. Ortíz García, S. Pondini, J. Flasbarth, C. Hofer, G. Tesdall, S. Bender
• 19/01 @9:30 AM-11:00 AM From global strategies to local implementation of food loss and food waste prevention S. Yeukai Mada, S. Lange, Dr. F. Schneider, Dr. G. Porpino de Araujo, Dr. C. Chandrakumar
• 19/01 @9:30 AM-11:00 AM Stepping up Climate Action in Food Systems to Achieve Zero Hunger: Dr. W. Sutton, Dr. C. Ruggeri Laderchi, Dr. H. Musa Kpaka, C. Carson, J. Lampietti, J. Moeng
• 19/01 @9:30 AM-11:00 AM Sovereign, resilient, sustainable. Global food supply and agricultural production of the future on the Eurasian continent:  A. Saparov, Dr. A. Bilych, Dr. F. Appel, M. Solskyi, C. Horsch, D. Stratmann
• 19/01 @11:30 AM-1:00 PM Social Participation: Why is it essential for the Realization of the Right to Adequate Food?: M. Windfuhr, E. Recine, N. Jezile, F. Kuiru Castro, P. Gioia, S. Richartz
• 19/01 @11:30 AM-1:00 PM FAST Partnership: unlocking quality agrifood system finance and leave no-one behind : M. Fleckenstein, G. Tesdall, M. Helena Semedo, Dr. W. Zornbach
• 19/01 @11:30 AM-1:00 PM Crop Diversity for a Healthy Planet and those who live on it: W. Westberg, Dr. U. Lohwasser, Prof. Dr. H. Flachowsky, Dr. S. Griebel, Dr B. Batha
• 19/01 @11:30 AM-1:00 PM From farm to food donation. How to maximize the potential of preventing harvest losses to ensure food security?:  R. Rolle, E. Sali, A. Villafiorita, Dr. A. Frigo, Dr. F. Schneider, C. Hill
• 19/01 @11:30 AM-1:00 PM South America's challenges and opportunities with regard to establishing resilient supply chains J. Sellare, M. Doorn, I. Maria Lizaso, H. Schulze-Düllo, A. Carolina Zimmermann
• 19/01 @11:30 AM-1:00 PM Zero hunger in agricultural production: not yet a reality but entirely possible! Working together to realize human rights in supply chains: Dr. B. Rudloff, A. Rueda Zarate, S. Nilsson, H. Leitschuh, Dr. L. Harings, L. Hartmann, Dr. JM Henke, Dr. R. Schneider
• 19/01 @1:30 PM-3:00 PM Realizing the Right to Adequate Food: Ending hunger and leaving no one behind: M. Torero, M. Windfuhr, N. Jezile, E. Recine, F. Uwumukiza, R. Chapagai, T. Howland

17 January 2024. 1:00 PM EAT "Nematodes, Biofertilizers, and Plants: Cultivating a Sustainable Future." By IPBO

17 January 2024. 3 pm CET. Research Community on Food Access | Launch Event

17 - 18 January 2024. Journées de partage et d’apprentissages croisés autour du conseil en agroécologie en Afrique de l’Ouest

22 January 2024. from 15:00 – 16:00 EAT Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) challenge

22-31 January 2024. Entrepreneurship opportunities for management of food loss and waste in agricultural and industrial sectors for environmental sustainability

• ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and YPARD India is jointly organizing a 10 days training program

23 January 2024. 10:00 - 13:00 (CET). Digitalisation, AI and sustainable agriculture seminar (European Parliament Brussels and online)

• recent report: Josse De Baerdemaeker (2023) Artificial intelligence in the agri-food sector – applications, risks and impact EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) PE 734.711 – March 2023 # 92 p. 
  In this study, sensing and data collection in different agri-food sectors are described, together with how the data can lead to better management and better decision making in crop and animal production.

23 January 2024, 2 - 5 pm (Rome time)  The future of family farming

• In the complex scenario of agrifood systems increasingly threatened by interconnected and mutually reinforcing challenges, the often-predicted disappearance of family farmers appears both unrealistic and undesirable, given the productive, social, cultural, and environmental functions that this production model provides. Small-scale family farmers indeed continue to exist and to develop innovative, tailored and locally adapted coping strategies and solutions.

23-25 January 2024. Joint SCAR workshop: “Research needs and priorities for the transformation to Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) at European and global level”

25 January 2024. 08:00 - 25-1-2024 11:00 CET Webinar series on Sustainable Agriculture Practices

• The East African Business Council (EABC), in collaboration with the Agency for Business and Economic Development(AWE) funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), is organizing a webinar series on Sustainable Agriculture Practices, in a bid to strengthen agricultural value chains and bolster the food security of Agri-actors in the East African Community (EAC) Region.

25 January 2024 from 12:30–13:30 UTC. How the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) grew from a conference into a global movement

• The seminar will be livestreamed from the Center for Development Research (ZEF), an international institute conducting interdisciplinary research on development-related issues all over the world. ZEF is part of the University of Bonn.

25 January 2024. 7:00 PM Ensuring access to healthy diets from sustainable food systems for everyone: Exploring the realities, trade-offs, and hopes amid a changing world and climate"

• Prof. Fanzo's talk will discuss research on global food systems and security in the context of ever increasingly complex planetary and political threats and opportunities, and how this research informs global thinking, governance, and strategies toward enabling healthy and sustainable diets and nutrition for the future of humanity.

26 January 2024. 11:00 CET Policy and advocacy for healthy soils by AFSA

29 January 2024. Extension Call for submissions on "How can the hidden costs and benefits of agrifood systems be effectively incorporated into decision-making for transformation?"

•  This call is invited by the team of The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) from the FAO's Agrifood Economics and Policy Division.

29 January 2024. Africa’s resilience and the G20 

• by the The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) 
• research on strengthening the macro-economic resilience of Africa in the post-COVID-19 context, co-implemented by four partner think tanks across the region – the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF); Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE); African School of Economics (ASE) and Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR).

29 January - 2 February 2024. African Food Changemakers Agrifood Webinar Series

• Jan 29, 2024 Time 3pm WAT - West Africa Building Sustainable Agribusiness Models: Balancing Profitability and Environmental Impact.  
• Jan 30, 2024 Time 5pm EAT - East Africa Building and Scaling Successful and Sustainable Agribusiness in East Africa. 
• Jan 31, 2024 Time 4pm SAST - Southern Africa The Future of Food in Southern Africa: Unlocking Opportunities for Global Impact  
• Feb 1, 2024 Time 4pm CAT - Central Africa Market Trends and Agri-Food Opportunities: Identifying Profitable Pathways for Growth. 
• Feb 2, 2024 Time 4pm CAT - North Africa Driving Green Growth, Innovation and Sustainability in the North African Agribusiness Landscape. 
• Related: Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli @ WEF 2024 - video @44:55
  Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (2021) Food Entrepreneurs in Africa. Scaling Resilient Agriculture Businesses. 208 pp. (16th March 2021)
  

30 January 2024. ECOSOC Partnership Forum 2024 

• 30/01 2:15 PM CET. The Road to Zero Hunger: A Review of Youth Engagement in Food systems Transformation towards achieving SDG 2 targets. This side event hosted during ECOSOC Partnership Forum 2024 aims to underscore how youth can play a central role in building a food-secured future, aligning closely with the forum's theme of effective and innovative solutions in the face of multiple crises, by proposing tangible and forward-thinking actions to enhance meaningful youth engagement in food systems.
• 30/01: 4.15 PM CET. Scaling up actions to accelerate SDG progress. 

30 January 2024. at 15:00-16:00 CET. Fixes that fail: Why food system repairs went wrong - and what can we do about it?

30 January 2024. Catalysts of Change: Women Leaders in Science

31 January 2024. Investing in resilience: Pathways to food security for Sudan

• The Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) Sudan and FSD Africa commissioned Wellspring to undertake a rapid assessment of the agri-food and enabling payment systems in Sudan, to inform a coordinated emergency response that promotes food security. This webinar will provide insights on the current situation, critical challenges and proposed interventions that can be deployed.

1 February 2024. 05:15 PM CET Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World

• With Danielle Resnick, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• This webinar focuses specifically on these issues by presenting insights from a newly released IFPRI-Oxford University Press book on The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World

31 January 2024. 10:00 -15:00 (CET). Sweden. 2024 SIANI Annual Meeting in person

• This meeting will focus on the impact of rapid urbanisation on food systems, particularly in urban, peri-urban, and in rural areas.

4 - 8 February 2024. Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus in-person Advanced School for MENA Region

5 February 2024. A Hybrid High-Level Public Panel Discussion on the Future of the Malabo Declaration Beyond 

5 - 6 February 2024. Rabat. MENA Regional Conference on Neglected and Underutilized Crop Species (NUS) 

5-6 February 2024 Mastering Erasmus+ proposal development: from project concept to winning proposal.  2-day online training course by European Academy: Course payment and reservation in advance

6 February 2024 @9:00am EST Hybrid Event, From Commitments to Impact: Analyzing the Global Commitments Toward Promoting Food Security and Healthy Diets by IFPRI

6 February 2024 Webinar - Fighting greenwashing: the role of regulations to empower consumers by UNEP

6 February 2024 . Africa 2024: Prospects and Forecasts

• Join the Royal African Society and Edinburgh University for a wide-ranging look at the Prospects and Forecasts for Africa in 2024. An expert panel will examine the political, economic, climatic and cultural outlook for Africa in the year ahead at the University of Edinburgh
• Previous webinar: How can finance be mobilised for Just Energy Transitions within Africa? (11th December 2023)

6 February 2024. from 10:30 to 12:00 WAT/CET Drive Renewable Energy Investments in West Africa Hosted by IRENA Coalition for Action

• The session will cover the African Continental Master Plan (CMP) for electricity generation and transmission, delve into West Africa's electricity sector, and present recommendations from the Policy Brief titled “Scaling up renewable energy investments in West Africa”. This brief, developed and published by the IRENA Coalition for Action, and co-authored by Coalition members RES4Africa Foundation and Enel Green Power, serves as a guiding document for advancing renewable energy initiatives in the region.
• This online event will serve as a comprehensive platform for exploring West Africa's vast renewable energy potential and the pivotal role of cross-border energy trade. The agenda, featuring distinguished speakers, will shed light and foster debate on key aspects of regional energy development.

7 February 2024 | 13:00–14:00 UTC / 14:00–15:00 CET / 18:30–19:30 IST NEXUS Gains Talk 19: Wetlands and human wellbeing: Perspectives from Asia and Africa

7–9 February 2024. World Sustainable Development Summit 2024, New Delhi

8 February 2024. 2pm - 3:30pm CET. Agroecology Transformative Partnership Platform (TPP) event

• how metrics, digital tools, and public-private incentives and investment can help scale up agroecological transitions
• key highlights of the TRANSITIONS programme
• The webinar is organized together with the Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT, CIFOR-ICRAF, and the Gund Institute - University of Vermont.

8 February 2024 4-5pm CET / 10-11am EST. Data-driven farming: tools and technologies for sustainable sourcing

8 February 2024. @ 2 pm CET TRANSITIONS For Our Future

9–10 February 2024. 8th Edition of The Global Business Summit, New Delhi

• The Global Business Summit brings together leading minds to tackle the complexities of the current global food crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic and geopolitical conflicts.

15 February 2024 3 pm CET Regional Webinar on Leadership and Capacity Building in Food Science and Technology in Africa

• The Association of African Universities (AAU) and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) invite you to participate in a Regional Webinar on Leadership and Capacity Building in Food Science and Technology in Africa
•  Theme: Promoting collaboration and partnership for research development among academic leaders in Food Science and Technology

21 February 2024, @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm CET. Potential of African regional markets: Successes from SMEs and Smallholders

• More information, including the programme, will be available on Agrinnovators.org, the website recently created by PAFO and COLEAD, which brings together all the information relating to the Innovations Sessions, including company profiles and impact stories. The site also includes a forum for exchange and networking.

21 - 22 February 2024, 2-7 pm Central European Time (CET) “It's Bean Too Hot: The Reality of Coffee Farming in the Era of Climate Change” 

23 - 24 February 2024. New Delhi, India International Conference On “Innovative Research in Agriculture, Engineering, Technology

24 Feb - 03 Mar 2024. Paris. International Agricultural Show 2024

26 February to 1 March 2024. 5th All Africa Horticulture Congres (AAHC)

• The preliminary programme is available online and abstract submission is open until November 2023.
• This fifth edition of the AAHC, initiated in 2009 by GlobalHort, will complement the African sub-regions hosting the event.
• The event will strengthen scientific relations and partnerships between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, and highlight the place and role of horticulture in meeting the continent's global challenges: food and nutritional security, youth employment, and sustainable management of natural resources (water and biodiversity).

4-5 March 2024.  Mastering Erasmus+ proposal development: from project concept to winning proposal.  2-day online training course by European Academy: Course payment and reservation in advance

5 - 6 March 2024 AFMASS Ethiopia Food Expo co-located with Africa Food Safety Summit – Eastern Africa

5  - 7 March 2024. 3rd Uganda-Europe Business Forum

5  - 7 March 2024.International Conference on Agricultural Sustainability and Food Security Hyderabad, India

11–15 March 2024, Livingstone, Zambia. Global EverGreening Alliance | Accelerating Nature-based Solutions

14-15 March 2024. Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge and the Sciences. Combining knowledge and science on vulnerabilities and solutions for resilience

18 - 21 March 2024. European Research and Innovation Days are part of the R&I Week

• 40-years journey through the Research and Innovation Framework Programmes. Check the programme​ here!
• Innovation Ecosystems for Bioeconomy and Food Systems (21 March 2024, 11:40 – 12:10)

18 - 21 March 2024. Training on breeding data management with BreedBase Lima, Peru

19–20 March 2024. Montpellier. The Montpellier Process: Pooling Collective Intelligence

• The event will gather 200-300 selected individuals from scientific and policy domains, focusing on intentional, diverse representation. It seeks to identify and agree on a joint roadmap

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19 - 24 March 2024. VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of Our Planet

20 - 21 March 2024. European Research and Innovation Days 2024

24 March 2024. ICFAN-2024 International Conference on Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Manila, Philippines

9-12 April 2024 | Leuven, Belgium. 5th Global Food Security Conference. Towards equitable, sustainable and resilient food systems

10 - 12 April 2024. EU-Zambian Business Forum: Value addition in the copper sector

May 2024. Ghana-EU Business Forum: Q2 2024

13 – 17 May 2024. World Bank Land Conference 2024: Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action

10 June 2024. Nairobi, Kenya Africa Future Food Summit

12 - 14 June 2024. . Nairobi, Kenya AFMASS Food Expo Eastern Africa co-located with Dairy Manufacturing Africa Expo

23–29 June 2024, Stockholm, Sweden. IUFRO | 26th World Congress

3 July 2024 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference | LCIC 2024

3 - 4 July 2024. Kenya, Kwale County. BlueInvest Africa 2024

• BlueInvest Africa is an important business event, initiated by the European Commission in 2022. 
• The objective of BlueInvest Africa is to facilitate meetings between African entrepreneurs seeking financing and international investors scouting for opportunities, all centred around projects capable of propelling Africa's blue economy forward.

8 - 17 July 2024. High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2024

13 August 2024. Nairobi, Kenya Africa Fresh Produce Expo co-located with Africa FarmTech Expo

August 2024. AFMASS Nigeria Food Expo co-located with Africa Dairy Manufacturing Expo and Africa Food Safety Summit – Western Africa

4–9 August 2024, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. IPC 2024 | 17th International Peatland Congress

12 - 13 August 2024. Crawford Fund Conference - Nurturing global change from Australia: Fostering agricultural innovation for worldwide food security, Australia

8 to 12 of September 2024. Rimini, Italy. 22nd IUFoST World Congress 2024 of Food Science and Technology. 

22–23 September 2024, New York, USA. UN | Summit of the Future

21 October–1 November, TBA, Colombia. UN | 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16)

November 2024 (Agro)pastoralism in Africa: Current Dynamics and Perspectives, in preparation for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP 2026)

4–8 November 2024, TROPICAL SUMMIT 

11–22 November 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan UN | 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29)

2–13 December 2024, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia UN | UNCCD COP16