COVID-19 has quickly morphed from an unprecedented health crisis to a massive economic shock. Initial expectations were that its impacts on agri-food supply chains would predominantly be felt in post-farm downstream segments, mostly in urban settings. But these expectations have [...]

COVID-19 affects rural lives and livelihoods in a specific way. Rural areas already concentrated 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor, before the pandemic hit. COVID-19 containment measures are particularly difficult for the rural poorest and most vulnerable, who tend [...]

A webinar organized jointly by the United Nations (UN) Global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) and the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Secretariat. Date: 28th of July, 2020 Time: 2:00PM – 3:30PM (Rome Time) Click here to join. This webinar presents the CFS draft [...]

Date: Wednesday 22 July, 12:30PM UTC The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have launched a series of webinars exploring how digitalization of food and agriculture systems can provide some quick responses [...]

This webinar is organized jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Register here. Traditional and innovative information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer unprecedented opportunities for accelerating agricultural development towards more sustainable and integrated [...]