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Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25, 1963 founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). On this day, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed a founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1991, the OAU established the African Economic Community, and in 2002 the...

The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture can be found here . Website of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The Africa meeting is organized by the Secretariat of the Commission in collaboration with FAO, and will take place at ILRI, Addis-Abebe, from 24-26 May 2016. Other Regions:  Latin...

24-25 May 2016, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania - Workshop on Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, at Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology.   In conjunction with several partners, FAO is organizing a series of training workshops across Asia and Africa focused on access to research in agriculture and...

The second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) will take place at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya (23-27 may 2016) under the overarching theme of Delivering on the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Assembly, which represents the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the...

Quoi: 9ème réunion de l’Equipe multi-disciplinaire d’Afrique de l'Ouest Où: Lomé, Togo Quand: 17-20 mai, 2016 Thème: Accélération de la croissance agricole et de la transformation dans le contexte des nouvelles tendances mondiales et régionales. Contexte: La rencontre de l'équipe multidisciplinaire (MDT ) de la FAO en Afrique de l'Ouest est un événement annuel...