FAO Regional Office for Africa

November-December 2014 calendar of events across RAF

Rice farming

Kenya: 24 November, Launch of the Resilience Analysis Unit (RAU), organized by IGAD (The Windsor Golf Hotel and Country Club, Nairobi)

Kenya: 24-25 November, Partners’ Meeting on the Rice Development Programme for Africa (The Windsor Golf Hotel and Country Club, Nairobi)

Kenya: 26 November, Launch of the SFE Regional ASTF

Harare: 27 Nov-ASTF SFS workshop launch; 28 November country level project launch workshop  (done are Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and SFC).

Zambia: 1-2 December, Extraordinary Session of the Committee for Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture of Africa (CIFAA), Lusaka                                                                                                                                                                

Lusaka: December 1-5, SFS sub-regional training workshop for first ever-Farmer Field School . This training will be pilot for Africa and other sub-regions will follow later with the same training building on lessons learnt from the one for SFS. 

Ghana: 5 December, Farmers’ Day (Western Region)

Mozambique: 8-12 December 2014, Rome based-US Ambassador’s Media Trip 

On-going: Ebola up-dates (Dakar Office for Coordination)