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January 2020
Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference on agri-food policy issues. Over three days at the GFFA, approx. 2,000 international visitors from politics, industry, science and civil society discuss a key topic. In addition, the world’s largest informal Conference of Agriculture Ministers takes place on the third conference day as the highlight of the GFFA. Approximately 70 ministers of agriculture from around the world and high-level representatives of international organisations adopt a joint political communiqué…
Find out more »Oxford Farming Conference
Join the conference from 7 to 9 January 2020 by purchasing your ticket here. Speakers will be announced in late September. Outline programme available here
Find out more »December 2019
Santiago Climate Change Conference 2019 (COP25)
The Santiago Climate Change Conference will take place in Parque Bicentenario Cerrillos in Santiago de Chile, Chile from 2 to 13 December. COP 25/CMP 15/ CMA 2 will take place from 2-13 December 2019. SBSTA 51/ SBI 51 will take place 2-9 December 2019. The pre-sessional period is from 25 - 30 November 2019. The President-Designate for the conference is Ms. Carolina Schmidt Zaldivar, Minister of Environment of Chile. The COP 25 High-Level Climate Action Champion is Mr. Gonzalo Muñoz, business entrepreneur and social…
Find out more »November 2019
The 4th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week 2019
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is organizing the 4th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week back to back with the continental Agricultural and Animal Resources Fair (SARA) under the theme “Private Sector and Agricultural Advisory Services: What Synergies for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Africa” from 25th to 29th November 2019 in Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire). The week is in partnership with the West and Central Africa Network of Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services (RESCAR-AOC), the National Agency for Rural Development…
Find out more »Inclusive Agribusiness: Linking Farmers to Consumers
IFDC and its partners' will be running a training workshop focused on setting up and supporting partnership and business models with significant potential to attract and employ the youth, to engage and empower women, and to improve food and nutrition security, both at the grassroots level and at the consumer end of the value chain.
Find out more »The World Science Forum 2019
The 2019 World Science Forum (WSF) will take place between 20-23 November in Budapest, under the title “Science, Ethics and Responsibility”. This year’s conference will be an opportunity to celebrate the heritage of the 1999 UNESCO World Conference on Science, the first gathering of the world’s governments and the international scientific community to prepare a new ‘social contract’ for science, and the event that inspired the regular meetings of the World Science Forum 20 years ago. The Forum is a…
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