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FAO has established since the 1980s strong partnerships with key strategic institutions in the West Africa sub-region, comprising inter aliawith the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), to promote sustainable agriculture...

Policy Dialogue Workshop Background Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) in partnership with the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) will organize a Policy Dialogue Workshop on “Sustainable Development Goals and Agrarian Transformations in the Global South: Trends and Opportunities” on 23-27 October 2017 in Harare, Zimbabwe. FAO...

Theme: Change the future of migration: Invest in food security and rural development The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) Regional Office for Africa will mark 37th World Food Day on the global theme: Change the future of migration: Invest in food security and rural development.The eventwill take place...

African Union meeting FAO will be presenting the Framework for Partnership on FAW sustainable management in Africa on the margins of the Conference of the AU Specialized Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment on 3 October. Further, a Partners’ Round Table will be organized on 4 October during...

FAO Sub-Regional Office for Central Africa and  IITA are organizing a training workshop on management of the fall armyworm. Forty participants have been pre-selected from eight countries in Central Africa to participate in this workshop. The six-day training will cover various modules on monitoring and surveillance, biology, ecology and management...