Agriculture & Rural Development

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Call for action: ending child labour in agriculture with the help of agricultural stakeholders

Francois Stepman posted Information | 27 May 2021

Call for action: ending child labour in agriculture with the help of agricultural stakeholders The facilitator of this open call, Bernd Seiffert from FAO's Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity Division, has decided to extend the deadline until 14 June 2021 to give you some additional...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
WEBINAR: FIBL and Africa Organic Agriculture

Francois Stepman posted news | 27 May 2021

27 May 2021. Open FiBL Day This first digital Open FiBL Day takes you on a journey to the world of organic – and beyond! Find out, how organic farming can contribute to climate change mitigation, what chickens have to do with organic apple growing in the future, if control with water markers really...

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Programme: DeSIRA
WEBINAR + REPORT: Building evidence for transforming agricultural innovation systems under climate change

Francois Stepman posted Information | 26 May 2021

26 May 2021 . The first in a series of webinars to set a path for transformation in agricultural innovation systems, in the lead up to COP26. This webinar provided an insight into the global baseline for investment , categorized by types of funder, implementer, and topic, and estimate how much of...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
WEBINAR: Profitable sourcing from smallholder farmers: investor perspectives on the ‘deal’

Francois Stepman posted Information | 26 May 2021

26 May 2021 . CASA webinar 7: Five routes to profitable sourcing from smallholder farmers: investor perspectives on the ‘deal’. There are 500 million smallholder farmers worldwide. These farmers represent both a key supplier base and a market for firms. But how do investors perceive the smallholder...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
WEBINAR European Parliament: Achieving a sustainable Food Systems Transformation - Reflections for the UN Food Systems Summit

Francois Stepman posted Information | 26 May 2021

21 May 2021. FAO and the European Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition hosted aParliamentary Briefing "Achieving a sustainable Food Systems Transformation - Reflections for the UN Food Systems Summit" Assuring that everyone has access to adequate and healthy food produced in an...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Official launch of the DeSIRA Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System Project

Francois Stepman posted news | 25 May 2021

23 May 2021. The DeSIRA Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System Project, a research and extension development based initiative to improve food security and nutrition in Liberia was officially launched by the Minister of Agriculture Janie Cooper. The Deputy Director-General for Administration at the...

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Programme: DeSIRA
IRRINN - Burkina Faso

Guy FAURE created a new WIKI page | 21 May 2021

IRRINN: Intensification of agricultural production through upscaling of innovative adapted irrigation practices and technologies Objectives : The main objective is to find ways to deal with the technical, financial, economic, organizational and institutional constraints that limit the development...

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Programme: DeSIRA
World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve

Alexa Froger posted Information | 20 May 2021

UNEP/IUCN Protected Planet Report: great progress since 2010 with over 22 million km 2 of land and 28 million km 2 of ocean protected or conserved and 42% of current coverage added in the last decade; but a third of key biodiversity areas lack any coverage, and less than 8% of land is both...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Youth event to launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Alexa Froger posted Information | 20 May 2021

On 17 May UNEP Brussels Office, FAO Liaison Office Brussels and Youth & Environment Europe jointly organized the virtual webinar “#GenerationRestoration : YOUth reconnecting with Nature” to mark the launch of the  UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration  for youth in Europe. The objective of this...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
The Agri-based Value Chains Methodology ( VCA4D)

Francois Stepman posted Information | 20 May 2021

INTPA developed its own interdisciplinary methodology for value chain analysis (VCA), reshuffling, combining and completing standard methods and specific tools for VCA. Since 2016, the VCA4D project has conducted over 30 studies using this standard methodology, which has been updated in 2021,...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA

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