Click here to register to the webinar 19 June 20192:00 PM CEST - 3:00 PM CEST Climate-related shocks and stresses threaten people and communities around the world, compounding existing poverty and vulnerabilities and undermining long- term development. Facilitating the access to, and use of, [...]

The 2014 Malabo Declaration was a watershed moment in African Agricultural Transformation. It redefined agricultural development in broader, holistic and multifaceted terms, bringing in topics like resilience to fore. Additionally, the Malabo Declaration required Member States to monitor and collect [...]

The Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) in Uganda is organizing a regional conference to take stock of recent research in Karamoja, northwest Kenya, and neighbouring areas of South Sudan and Ethiopia, and to draw out lessons for policy and programming. [...]

  The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is a biennial multi-stakeholder forum established by the UN General Assembly to review progress, share knowledge and discuss the latest developments and trends in reducing disaster risk. The sixth session of the Global Platform [...]

In 2015, The TOPS Program sparked a rich two-day conversation on resilient agriculture amongst participants from multiple agencies and USAID offices. Together, participants exchanged knowledge on agroecological principles, designs, methodologies and practices for enhancing smallholder farming systems (highlights here). Four years [...]

Thursday 4 April14.30 - 15.45 (Rome Time)Sheikh Zayed Center, FAO headquarters, Rome The event is organized by the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM), a G7-G20 Initiative, hosted by the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture [...]

On April 2-3, 2019, on the occasion of the Launch of the Global Report on Food Crises 2019, the European Commission in Brussels – on behalf of the Global Network against Food Crises – hosts the high-level event on food and [...]

As part of the ASEAN–UN Joint Strategic Plan for Disaster Management 2016–2020, FAO, UNICEF, ILO, WFP and UNISDR implemented a joint project, funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), entitled 'Strengthening the capacity of AMS to [...]

A l’occasion du Salon international de l’agriculture 2019 portant cette année sur l’agriculture au Sahel, l’AFD et le CIRAD co-organisent une conférence sur cette même thématique. Au Sahel, deux habitants sur trois vivent de l’agriculture et de l’élevage. Le développement de [...]

12 February 20194pm WIB/9am UTC One of the great human achievements over the last half century is that advances in food production have largely kept pace with demand on a global basis. Today, around 6 billion people are not hungry, up [...]