Глобальный форум по продовольственной безопасности и питанию (Форум FSN)

Обзор проекта
Евразийский центр по продовольственной безопасности совместно с Всемирным банком объявляет прием заявок на составление тематических исследований (case studies) в области политики обеспечения продовольственной безопасности и питания в Евразийском регионе. Цель проекта – содействие развитию сотрудничества между исследователями в Евразийском регионе при подготовке серии кратких аналитических и образовательных исследований. Конкурс открыт для исследователей, преподавателей и профессоров, занимающихся научными исследованиями по вопросам продовольственной безопасности и безопасности питания. Заявки принимаются до 30 апреля 2019 года.

Тема исследований 
Заявки принимаются по теме «Устойчивое сельское хозяйство – как меры политики могут повлиять на развитие:

• Органического сельского хозяйства (регламенты на внесение агрохимикатов и использование лекарственных средств для ветеринарного применения; продвижение высоких стандартов благополучия животных; получение органик-сертификата у аккредитованной организации и т.д.);
• Климатически оптимизированного сельского хозяйства (повышение продуктивности сельского хозяйства и повышение его устойчивости к изменению климата, а также сокращение и/или прекращение выбросов парниковых газов с целью обеспечения продовольственной безопасности и достижения целей устойчивого развития);
• Биологизированного сельского хозяйства (отсутствие агрохимикатов в производстве, повышение продуктивности за счет улучшения микробиологических показателей);
• Экосистемного подхода в сельском хозяйстве (сохранение и восстановление биоразнообразия, оценка экосистемных услуг)».

Кто может участвовать в проекте 
Прием заявок открыт для научных сотрудников, преподавателей и профессоров (с полной или частичной занятостью) научно-исследовательских и образовательных учреждений Евразийского региона, являющихся партнерами Евразийского центра по продовольственной безопасности. Участники проекта должны заниматься исследованиями в области продовольственной безопасности, питания, развития сельского хозяйства или смежных областей. Желательно, чтобы в составе авторского коллектива были исследователи, представляющие две разные организации в разных странах Евразийского региона.

Критерии отбора заявок 

• Актуальность предложенной темы и ее соотвествие предложенной тематике исследований;
• Образование и профессиональный опыт авторов;
• Качество заявки.

Как подать заявку

1. Ознакомьтесь с Правилами приема заявок, где указаны сроки выполнения проекта, описаны формат и методология составления тематических исследований (case studies).
2. Подготовить заявку на английском (предпочтительно) или русском языке. Объём заявки не должен превышать одну страницу формата А4.
3. В заявку необходимо включить описание следующих пунктов: (i) Название исследования и страна исследования; (ii) ФИО авторов и место их работы; (iii) Проблема в рамках заданной темы, которую Вы собираетесь проанализировать; (iv) Исходная информация, объясняющая почему данная тема была выбрана для исследования; (v) Описание заинтересованных сторон, затронутых в Вашем исследования; (vi) Проблемы политики.
4. Отправьте заявку и резюме (CV) по электронной почте Юлии Митусовой [email protected] и Анне Контобойцевой [email protected] Тема: Case Study 2019.

Финансирование 
В рамках проекта будут оплачены командировки в Москву – на презентацию доклада IFPRI «О глобальной продовольственной политике 2019» и тренинг по методологии составления тематических исследований (case studies), и в Ереван – на Ежегодную конференцию по продовольственной безопасности в Евразийском регионе, где участники проекта представят результаты своих исследований. Также в индивидуальном порядке, при необходимости сбора данных или проведения интервью с заинтересованными сторонами в фокусной стране, будут покрыты командировочные расходы, связанные с работой над исследованием.

The “1st All Africa Synthetic Pesticide Congress” organized by the World Food Preservation CenterÒLLC merges with the Eastern Africa conference on “Scaling up Agroecology and Ecological Organic Trade” organized by Biovision Africa Trust, IFOAM Organics International and their Partners to become the “1st International Conference on Agroecology Transforming Agriculture & Food Systems in Africa”.

The “1st All Africa Congress on Synthetic Pesticides, Environment, Human and Animal Health” has expanded its goals by the recognition of Agroecology as a means of combatting synthetic pesticide and fertilizers contamination in the African continent and ensuring actions towards true sustainable agriculture and food systems. The “Agroecology and Ecological Organic Trade” equally see the need to address threats to sustainable agriculture and food systems.

The conference has attracted world leading scientists on both the impact of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers on the African people, their animals, and environment and advocates for Agroecology as a means of producing food without the need for synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. This rare consortium of leading world scientists, practitioners and other players will chart a course to substantially and sustainably reduce synthetic pesticide and fertilizer contamination in Africa. We invite you to participate in and contribute to this seminal event. https://www.worldfoodpreservationcenterpesticidecongress.com/

Among the keynote speakers at the conference are Professor Hans Herren, the first Swiss to receive the 1995 World Food Prize and the 2013 Right Livelihood Award (alternate Nobel Prize) for leading a major biological control effort. Also, Professor Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkley, who has pioneered in establishing that the herbicide atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that demasculinizes and feminizes male frogs. Other keynote speakers at the congress are on the forefront of research on the impact of synthetic pesticides and GMOs on the health of humans, animals, and the environment. Also, world leading scientists will be speaking on regenerative agriculture and food sovereignty.

The “1st International Conference on Agroecology Transforming Agriculture & Food Systems in Africa: Reducing Synthetic Pesticides and Fertilizers by Scaling Up Agroecology and Promoting Ecological Organic Trade ” will be held at the Safari Park Hotel & Casino, Nairobi, Kenya on June 18-21, 2019.

You can register here.

CONTACTS:

Charles L. Wilson, Ph.D., Founder World Food Preservation CenterÒLLC, Charles Town, WV, USA

[email protected]

David Amudavi, Ph.D., Director, Bivision Trust, Nairobi, Kenya

[email protected]

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About World Food Preservation Center:

To feed the world's exploding population, we MUST save substantially more of the food that we already produce. Up until now we have invested a disproportionate amount of our resources in the production of food (95%) while only (5%) in the postharvest preservation of food. This has left us with tremendous postharvest "Skill Gaps" and "Technology Gaps" in developing countries. ​The World Food Preservation Center® LLC is filling these gaps by: (1) promoting the education (M.S. and Ph.D.) of young student/scientists from developing countries; (2) having young student/scientists from developing countries conduct research on much needed new postharvest technologies adaptable to their native countries; (3) organize continent-wide postharvest congresses and exhibitions for developing countries; (4) publish much needed new texts/reference books on postharvest technologies/methods for developing countries; and (5) develop a comprehensive database on all postharvest knowledge relative to developing countries with access portals for researchers, students, administrators, industry, businesses, and farmers.

About Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT):

Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) is a not-for-profit organization established in Kenya in 2009 by the Biovision Foundation for ecological development in Switzerland and supported by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi. The Trust’s goal is to alleviate poverty and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Kenya and other African countries through supporting dissemination of information and knowledge on appropriate technology to improve human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Agricultural output and food supply are however hindered by various environmental factors and lack of information and relevant training for the African smallholder farmers. Plant pests, for instance, are responsible for up to 80% of crop losses. Ecologically sustainable solutions are a practical alternative for African farmers to achieve good crop yields without relying on expensive chemical fertilizers and pesticides. What is lacking, however, are effective dissemination pathways to deliver relevant information to the farmers.                                                              

EVAL-ForwARD is a new Community of Practice on evaluation for Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Development, jointly promoted by the evaluation offices of the Rome-based agencies: CGIAR (formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research), FAO, IFAD and WFP.

Its first public launch took place at EvalColombo2018 during the side event The role of Evaluation in the public sector: how best to support national capacities. Conference participants had the opportunity to engage with the Directors of the Evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD and WFP on the aims, opportunities and thematic focus of this initiative.

The objectives of EVAL-ForwARD are to enhance awareness and capacities at country-level about evaluation in the agriculture, food security and rural development sectors, with a close focus on the evaluation of efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 – End Hunger.

Evaluators, development practitioners, researchers and government officials are welcome to join the Community of Practice and:

• Exchange evaluation information, practice and knowledge;
• Propose resources and blogs;
• Post information about events, conferences, training opportunities.

The first EVAL-ForwARD webinar on Evaluating with a Sustainable Development Goal 2 lens: experiences to date is planned for the second half of October and aims to uncover the challenges encountered and the good practices on which the development community could build, fostering further discussion and exchanges on the topic, which is at the core of the Community’s mandate.

EVAL-ForwARD uses a Dgroup mailing list for knowledge-sharing and a website as a repository of information and resources. To sign up to the Community and to find out more, please visit: www.evalforward.org

Today, the 2017 edition of the State of Food and Agriculture has been released. This year, the theme of the report is “Leveraging food systems for inclusive rural transformation”.

The new report looks at how population growth, increasing urbanization, technologies, and climate change are transforming rural and urban areas, and how the world’s food systems are evolving. The report concludes that fulfilling the 2030 Agenda depends crucially on progress in rural areas, which is where most of the poor and hungry live today, and outlines a strategy for how agriculture and rural economies in developing countries can provide prosperity.  

Please visit the following website to download the report and additional material one of the six UN languages:
http://www.fao.org/state-of-food-agriculture/en/.

12:30 - 14:30 Rome time, FAO Headquarters.

This Special Event will provide government representatives, UN entities, civil society and the private sector and other stakeholders with a platform to share experiences in accelerating progress towards gender equality and rural women’s empowerment. It will highlight forward-looking strategies and partnerships in the fight against hunger, malnutrition and extreme poverty.

Rural women play an important role in agriculture and rural development, and make a strong contribution to food security and nutrition at household and community levels. Worldwide, there is an increasing recognition that rural women must be at the centre of any intervention to promote sustainable agriculture and eradicate food insecurity and poverty. The 2030 Agenda envisages a future in which no one is left behind, where achieving gender equality and empowering women is an absolute precondition to break the cycle of poverty and hunger, and to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The event can be followed on webcast: http://www.fao.org/webcast

Programme

Opening remarks

José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO

Presentation on FAO’s technical work on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Kostas Stamoulis, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO

Panel discussion

• His Excellency Hugo Martinez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador

• Her Excellency Néziha Labidi, Minister of Women and Family Affairs of Tunisia

• Her Excellency Fatimata Dia Sow, Commissioner for Social Affairs and Gender of ECOWAS

• His Excellency Ty Sokhun, Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia

• His Excellency Ali Recep Nazli, General Director of Foreign Relations and EU Coordination of Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock of Turkey

• Haowa Bello, CEO and Founder of Madame Coquette - Beneficiary of the Youth Employment in Agriculture Programme

• Jessica Vega Ortega, Coordinator of the Yani Tundavii Dikuintií Collective of the Network of Young Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, Focal Point for the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus

Questions and answers

Concluding remarks

ФАО недавно опубликовала инструментарий и модули онлайн-обучения, посвященные учитывающим вопросы питания сельскому хозяйству и продовольственным системам. Этот комплексный пакет методических материалов, разработанный на основе опыта Организации и многочисленных партнеров, направлен на укрепление потенциала для разработки, осуществления и мониторинга политики и программ в области продовольственных систем, учитывающих вопросы питания, в соответствии с Римской декларацией о питании, ЦУР и Десятилетием действий ООН по проблемам питания.

Инструментарий, посвященный учитывающим вопросы питания сельскому хозяйству и продовольственным системам, включает четыре инструмента:

• Основные рекомендации по повышению качества питания с помощью агропродовольственных систем
• Планирование инвестиций в сельское хозяйство с учетом фактора питания. Контрольный перечень и рекомендации по разработке программ
• Сельское хозяйство, учитывающее вопросы питания, и продовольственные системы на практике. Варианты вмешательств
• Сборник показателей для сельского хозяйства, учитывающего вопросы питания.

Модули онлайн-обучения, посвященные учитывающим вопросы питания сельскому хозяйству и продовольственным системам, применяют подход к обучению на основе сценариев и опыта, в целях оказания помощи политикам и руководителям программ по эффективной интеграции питания в их деятельность. 

Два модуля уже доступны онлайн:

• Питание, продовольственная безопасность и средства к существованию: основные понятия
• Улучшение питания с помощью сельского хозяйства и продовольственных систем

Эти ресурсы бесплатны и доступны для скачивания по ссылкам: 

http://www.fao.org/nutrition/policies-programmes/toolkit/en

http://www.fao.org/nutrition/policies-programmes/e-learning/en

TECA (Technologies and practices for small agricultural producers), FAO’s free web based online information and communication platform for smallholders, has launched an online discussion on "Agroecology and Nutrition". The objective of this discussion is to identify successful agroecological farming practices which contribute to nutritious food systems.

Many successful experiences have already been documented on various platforms of FAO, e.g. TECA (during the previous discussions on “Sustainable agriculture through Agroecology” and “Agroecology and Soil Health”) and on Agroecology Knowledge hub. Based on these and other experiences, a three-week discussion will be held, inviting you to share your knowledge and experiences on agroecology and successful agroecological farming practices and approaches.

The discussion page can be accessed through the following link: http://teca.fao.org/discussion/agroecology-and-nutrition

The discussion will be available from 20 March until 12 April 2017.

For any further information please contact: [email protected].

The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 report (SOFA 2016), FAO’s annual flagship publication, has been released yesterday.

SOFA assesses issues on agricultural and rural development in the context of global food security. This year’s SOFA report centres on the double challenge of food security and climate change, presenting alternatives to tackle the two as a whole.

The report and furher information are available in all UN six languages at: http://www.fao.org/publications/sofa/en/

Experiences of multi sectoral policy approaches to promote rural transformation, inclusive agricultural transition and economic growth, across sectors and developing regions will be discussed during an event taking place at FAO headquarters on 17 October from 13:00 to 14:30 CEST.

The structural transformation of economies is a clear pathway out of poverty and hunger when the
process is characterized by inclusive productivity growth in both agricultural and non-agricultural sectors
and by strong linkages between sectors and urban and rural areas.

For further information on this event and on this area of work please contact: [email protected]

Food and Nutrition Security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation (FIRST) is a FAO and the European Union partnership programme with the purpose of providing a policy assistance mechanism for improved food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture.

FIRST has a vacancy in Pakistan for a Policy Officer, who will work under the overall technical guidance of FIRST Manager (FAO/Rome) and working in close collaboration with the EU Delegation and relevant government ministries/institutions, as well as other stakeholders and development partners. The officer will seek to develop and implement coherent, nitrated, and effective policy assistance and capacity development. The officer will work to provide technical and policy advice and supports the Government of Sindh in development and implementation of their strategies and policies including the Zero Hunger. The officer will facilitate and advocate for an inclusive policy dialogue and supports the establishment of multi-sectoral food and nutrition coordination mechanisms and institutional structures such as SUN, IPC TWG etc. at the federal, provincial and regional level as well as developing strategic partnerships around FNSSA.

The VA closing date is 15 July 2016.

The full VA, including a detailed list of key functions, may be found at: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/VA/pdf/IRC3417.pdf