Webinar: Innovation in social protection in response to COVID-19 in the NENA region: Building on best practices case
Thursday, 9 July 2020 @14:00 - 15:30 (UTC+2) The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues to spread throughout the Near East and North Africa (NENA) - Arab States region. The pandemic will have huge impacts on public health and represents already an unprecedented shock to economies, food systems and labour markets globally and in the NENA region, affecting rural poverty and resilience. It
FAO's TECA Platform releases "Open call for technologies and practices" to support smallholder farmers
FAO’s Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers (TECA) Platform has released an “Open call for technologies and practices” for submissions on sharing practices and technologies that can help smallholder farmers and producers to overcome current challenges. You are invited to submit practices and technologies that have been successfully implemented on the ground, brought positive
SALSA Project Final Conference: Can small farms and food businesses improve people’s access to more and better food in our globalized world?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the University of Évora present the SALSA Project Final Conference Can small farms and food businesses improve people’s access to more and better food in our globalized world? Thursday, 25 June 2020 from 10:00 to 11:00 and from 11:30 to 13:00 (CET) Please register to follow the virtual event through the Zoom conferencing platform
Webinar: Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates
The FAO Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (Think-PA) is pleased to invite you to the webinar "Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates" Wednesday, June 17 |15:00-16:30| Please register here . You will receive an e-mail with the link to webinar The first target of the SDGs is to eradicate extreme poverty, currently measured as people living on less than
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
Вебинар: Ослабление режима изоляции – дальнейшие шаги для продовольственных систем?
онлайн-семинар, 28/05/2020 - 28/05/2020 По мере того как страны ослабляют меры, связанные с пандемией COVID-19, возникает ряд новых проблем для производства продовольствия, переработки и логистики цепочки поставок. При условии, что директивные органы и участники товаропроводящих цепочек сыграют свою роль, некоторые из них могут быть преобразованы в возможности роста. Страны нуждаются в
How do innovative evaluations contribute to achieving SDG2?
4 June, 15:00 - 16:15 CEST In the context of the gLOCAL week, the evaluation offices of FAO, IFAD and WFP with the support of EvalForward are organizing an online learning event on innovative methods and approaches in evaluation, and on how innovations can provide lessons for progress under SDG2 “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”. During
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
SALSA policy briefs to guide policy interventions in support of small farms
SALSA - Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security , is an EU-funded research project of the Horizon2020 program which run from April 2016 to March 2020 with the aim to provide a better understanding of the role of small farms and small food businesses in meeting the sustainable food and nutrition security challenge. In the project, FAO was responsible for the communication
FAO's work in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
FAO has implemented an array of tools to support policy analyses and assess the impact of COVID-19 on on food and agriculture, value chains, food prices, food security across the globe. Urgent policy measures Policy briefs Policy responses Big data | Daily updates Food policy warnings Crop calendars Strengthening food production and distribution systems is key to fighting hunger and entails