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Global launch of SOFA 2019 "Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction"
10/10/2019
The State of Food and Agriculture 2019 (SOFA) launched at a press conference with the Director-General and Maximo Torero (ADG-ES), on Monday, 14 October at 12:00 in the Sheikh Zayed Centre is about Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction. It provides in...
UNGA 74 - Agriculture development, food security and nutrition SG Report
30/08/2019
This report highlights the critical role of a sustainable food systems approach in eradicating poverty, hunger and all forms of malnutrition, promoting sustainable production and consumption, meeting the challenges of urbanization, absorbing the youth labour force and reducing the impact of fo...
2nd All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition
21/08/2019
September 17th – 20th, 2019 at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Postharvest Loss Reduction and Agro-processing: Drivers of Agricultural Transformation in Africa
Acknowledging the urgent need to address this global challenge, the University of Nairobi and a co...
Development of Voluntary Codes of Conduct on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
17/06/2019
Capitalization of Experience is Sub-Saharan Africa
07/06/2019
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been funding programs on postharvest management (PHM) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 2008, following its successful POSTCOSECHA program in Central America that led to the adoption of m...