衡量私营部门对实现可持续发展目标贡献的核心粮食及农业指标
粮农组织正在编制有关以连贯一致并与各国监测可持续发展议程的要求相符的方式衡量私营粮食及农业主体对实现可持续发展目标的贡献的指南。粮农组织首席统计师办公室期望藉本次在线磋商收集有关在这一背景下已编制起草的指标和准则的反馈意见。
Webinar: Promoting Collaborative Research for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems for Achieving Agenda 2030
FAO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in July 2018 with the Italian Research Institutions: the National Research Council (CNR); the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA); the National Agency for New Technologies, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA); and the Italian Institute for Environmental Research and Protection (ISPRA). The overarching objective of the cooperation between FAO and CNR, CREA, ENEA and ISPRA is the promotion of sustainability at large in the context of joint efforts for achieving Agenda 2030.
This cooperation also promoted the secondment of staff and researchers from the developing countries to work with Italian Research Institutes. As part of the joint work plan, there were number of activities successfully completed including the research work of the visiting scientists to ENEA from Burkina Faso, Republic of the Congo and Cameroon. To promote communication initiatives aimed at enhancing the impact and visibility of the activities undertaken in the context of MoU, FAO’s Research and Extension Unit (AGDR) and the National Agency for New Technologies, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) are jointly organizing a webinar on “Promoting collaborative research for sustainable agri-food systems for achieving Agenda 2030”.
This webinar will focus on the results of the research work carried out by the visiting scientists from Africa to ENEA in the field of microbiome application for sustainable agri-food systems.
The webinar will be an opportunity for all partners of the MoU to briefly share their reflections and to promote interactive discussion on the topics of presentations.
Presentations:
- The ENEA Initiatives in supporting the Sustainable Agri-food systems: ENEA–TWAS Research Training Fellowships Programme 2018-2020 (Massimo Iannetta, ENEA)
- Antifungal activity of local plants extracts against seed-borne fungi in Burkina Faso (Leon W. Nitiema, Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Burkina Faso)
- Soil organic matter, C and P dynamics in the mixed-species plantations of Acacia and Eucalypts in the Congolese coastal plains (Stella-Koutika, Research Center on Sustainability and Productivity of Industrial Plantations (CRDPI), Republic of the Congo)
- Optimization of the antimicrobial efficiency of low thermal treatment of fruit juices in combination with natural aroma compounds (Alex Dimitri Tchuenchieu Kamgain, Centre for Food and Nutrition Research, IMPM, Cameroon)
- Microbiome application for sustainable food system: from field to food quality and safety (Annamaria Bevivino, ENEA)
Target audience:
Researchers and development practitioners interested and engaged in agricultural research on agri-food systems and related topics.
Registration:
The webinar has limited number of participants, thus we invite your early registration here. It will also help us to stay in touch and keep you informed on our next webinars of the partnership between FAO and the Italian Research Institutions! The webinar will be in English, for duration of 100 minutes.
e-Panel discussion - How to improve results in the agriculture sector: a discussion on leadership and Results-based management in Africa
Wednesday 6 May 2020, 11:00 to 12:00 CEST / 9:00 to 10:00 GMT.
Please register here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GN8h2jmvTNKYKrMrxnjVrg
The panel is jointly hosted and organized by AVANTI and EvalForward.
AVANTI is an IFAD funded initiative supporting national governments to assess and build RBM capacities in order to better measure SDGs in up to 20 countries globally. It is implemented by Helvetas and Itad.
EvalForward is a community of practice on evaluation for Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Development, supported by the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD and WFP.
Panellists
AVANTI & EvalForward are collaborating to share their joint experience and specific learning by an pool of expert panellists consisting of:
- Angela Dannson (Director, Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana)
- Elias A.K. Segla (Evaluation Specialist, Presidency, Republic of Benin, Bureau of Public Policy Evaluation and Government Action Analysis)
- Ian Goldman (Advisor on Evaluation and Evidence Systems, CLEAR Anglophone Africa)
Hosting team
- Riff Fullan: e-Panel Facilitator and Knowledge Component Lead for AVANTI
- Ethel Sibanda: Chat Moderator and AG-Scan methodology Lead, AVANTI
- Cesar Robles: e-Panel Technical Coordinator and Communications Lead, AVANTI
- Renata Mirulla: Facilitator, EvalForward
Questions to be addressed in the e-Panel
Some of the questions under discussion include:
- What is the importance of leadership in mainstreaming RBM in agriculture-related ministries and other institutions?
- What factors are most influential in enabling or hindering leadership’s contribution to improved RBM in the agriculture sector?
- What concrete actions can key stakeholders take to create an enabling environment for effective leadership in the pursuit of SDGs?
For more information please contact: [email protected]
Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security - an overview
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Can small farms and small food businesses in SALSA’s Southern European countries contribute to sustainable food security?
It is estimated that the total number of small farms in Southern European (SE) countries has decreased by 33% between 2010 and 2019. This loss is despite the widespread acknowledgement and appreciation of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving...
Can small farms and small food businesses in Northern Europe contribute to sustainable food security?
There is widespread acknowledgement and appreciation in Northern Europe of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity, and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage. The EU-funded SALSA project set out to examine...
Digital technologies in agriculture and rural areas
This report aims to identify the different scenarios where the process of digital transformation is taking place in agriculture. This identifies those aspects of basic conditions, such as those of infrastructure and networks, affordability, education and institutional support. In addition, enablers...
禽蛋:发挥其在战胜饥饿和营养不良方面的作用
在这一与全球改善营养联盟(GAIN)共同举办的讨论中,我们将探讨禽蛋在有效解决营养不良问题方面能够发挥的作用。
最佳生产模式有哪些?如何以可持续方式鼓励禽蛋消费?如何在改善营养与小规模生产者关切两者利益之间达成平衡?
Call for papers: The drivers and impacts of migration and labor mobility in origins and destinations.
FAO is developing a programme of work that will provide evidence on the diversity of pathways, the drivers and the impacts of distress or voluntary migration, labor and people’s mobility in a context of accelerated urbanization and increased pressure on natural resources. The programme gives importance to the role of policies, governance and institutions in steering change processes in origins and reducing challenges in destination areas. Evidence from this programme of work will feed into FAO’s normative work and policy support to countries and multistakeholder governance platforms in promoting sustainable development, food security and nutrition. The programme will provide background material and support the Global Migration Group negotiations to develop a Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.
In the context of the programme, FAO invites the submission of papers to be presented on a technical workshop on:
The drivers and impacts of migration and labor mobility in origins and destinations: Building the evidence base for policies that promote safe, orderly and regular people’s and labor mobility for poverty reduction and sustainable development
The workshop will be held the 1st of December 2017, at FAO headquarters in Rome.