Foro Global sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición (Foro FSN)

This international technical webinar is part of the series organized by the FAO eLearning Academy, Agreenium (l'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France) and UN-ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific). These webinars are an opportunity to share experiences and lessons learnt, discuss challenges, and propose innovative solutions and models. They aim to provide a holistic and comprehensive view of current trends in thematic areas related to global challenges, by combining development research and innovation perspectives.

The main objective is to give practitioners the opportunity to interact with international experts, United Nations officers, University professors, researchers and fellow participants, throughout the world. Webinars can be attended as interactive online sessions on Zoom, where sharing perspectives and asking questions to experts is encouraged.

The objectives of this session on Home-Grown School Feeding are to:

• define and explain concepts, benefits and beneficiaries of Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes;
• present  the key elements of the HGSF elearning course to support the planning, design and implementation of HGSF programmes, and
• discuss partnerships as critical enablers for strong and potential successful HGSF programmes.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday 21 October 2020, 15:00 – 16:30 CEST.

Please register here.

FAO has launched The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020 (SOCO 2020). The report aims to discuss policies and mechanisms that promote sustainable outcomes – economic, social and environmental – in agricultural and food markets, both global and domestic.

The analysis is organized along the trends and challenges that lie at the heart of global discussions on trade and development. These include the evolution of trade and markets; the emergence of global value chains in food and agriculture; the extent to which smallholder farmers in developing countries participate in value chains and markets; and the transformative impacts of digital technology on markets.

Along these themes, SOCO 2020 discusses policies and institutions that can promote inclusive economic growth and also harness markets to contribute towards the realization of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.

The report also looks at policy responses to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food value chains, both nationally and globally.

The report is available in all six UN languages and can be downloaded here.

FAO and Zhejiang University are co-organizing the Global AgriInno Challenge 2020. The aim of this initiative is to identify, accelerate and scale up youth-led innovative business models and digital solutions to address the challenges associated with the distribution and sales of agri-food products.



The Challenge is open for all youth with ideas for digital development solutions, who are invited to submit their application by 17 October 2020. 

 

The selected teams will be invited to further develop and pitch their ideas in Zhejiang Province, China on 27-28 November 2020 with all relevant expenses covered. Winning teams will be granted seed funding, and the opportunity to participate in a one-week agro-bootcamp and world study tour. 

To learn more about the selection criteria and how to apply, please visit http://www.fao.org/e-agriculture/open-call-global-agriinno-challenge-20…