UPCOMING EVENTS IN AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT (AR4D) – DECEMBER 2018 & Beyond

2-14 December 2018. Katowice, Poland. UN climate change talks (COP24)

10-12 December 2018. Center of Congress Rennes, France.  DIVERSIFOOD Final Congress ‘Cultivating Diversity and Food Quality’

11 December 2018. Webinar. Drones for Agriculture: potentials and challenges on the African continent

11 December 2018. Webinar. The Role of Local Governance in Urban Food Security

11-17 December 2018. Cairo. The Intra-African Trade Fair 2018 is providing a platform for sharing trade, investment and market information.

12 December 2018. Webinar. The impact of Farmer Filed Schools

12 December 2018. Katowice, Poland. Agriculture Advantage 2.0 - Closing session: Stepping up food systems transformation under a changing climate - COP 24 side event.

12 December 2018. Vienna. Workshop on women, the food economy and networks in West Africa. organised by the Austrian Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, the Austrian Development Agency and the OECD ‘Sahel and West Africa Club’ Secretariat

13 December 2018. Webinar. This second AgriFoSe2030 policy briefs webinar focuses on how to profile your target audience, and then how to formulate and deliver compelling messages about your research.

13 December 2018. Webinar. Innovative financing opportunities for inclusive agri-business

13 December 2018. Webinar. The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development organises a webinar on aligning policies and programmes on agriculture and Aid for Trade.

13 December 2018. Life streamed.  Releasing the Underground Forest. This infopoint conference will provide a brief description of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, a low-cost agroecological approach used to combat poverty and hunger

13 December 2018. Life streamed. Strategies for promotion of the Agro-processing value chain in Africa. 11-17 December 2018. Cairo. The Intra-African Trade Fair 2018 is providing a platform for sharing trade, investment and market information.

14 December 2018. Webinar. Conservation Agriculture for Commercial Vegetable Home Gardens: Field Experiences on Yield, Labor, Pests, Diseases and Water Management.
18 December 2018. Life streamed. Brussels, Belgium. InfoPoint Lunchtime Conference: Coffee: Behind the success story" 

18 December 2018. Vienna, Austria. High-level Forum Africa-Europe: ‘’Taking Cooperation to the Digital Age’’ 

10-12 January 2019. International Conference on Aquatic Resource and Aquaculture for Sustainable Development, ICAR-AQUAS-2019.

17-19 January 2019. Berlin. 11th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA).  "Agriculture Goes Digital – Smart Solutions for Future Farming”.Realising trends, insights and predictions from large agricultural data sets, and using digital tools for advisory services have huge potential for smallholder farmers.

22-25 January 2019. Wageningen. CATALYSING ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE TO IMPLEMENT CLIMATE-SMART SOLUTIONS FOR NEXT-GENERATION ACP AGRICULTURE
12-13 February 2019. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. First FAO/WHO/AU International Food Safety Conference

20-21 March 2019. Washington, DC. Global Food Security Symposium 2019

25 - 30 March 2019. VI GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON FAMILY FARMING: A Decade to improve the life of family farmers
1-2 April 2019. Abu Dhabi. Agricultural Innovation for agriculture summit. Conference Theme: Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture.

23-24 April 2019. Geneva, Switzerland. The FAO/WHO/WTO International Forum on Food Safety and Trade. 
21-22 May 2019, Chicago The Future of Food

29 – 31 May 2019 Arusha, Tanzania. CfP Conference: Pesticide Politics in Africa. 

12-13 June 2019. Stockholm, Sweden. EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019

18-20 June 2019. Nairobi. 1st  ALL AFRICA CONGRESS ON SYNTHETIC PESTICIDES, ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH

18-20 June, 2019. Safari Park Hotel & Casino Nairobi, Kenya. 1st All Africa Congress On Synthetic Pesticides, Environment, Human And Animal Health.

9 - 12 July 2019. Accra, Ghana. Evidence to Action Conference 2019. Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana

29 September - 5 October 2019. Curitiba, Brazil. XXV IUFRO World Congress 2019. "Forest Research and Cooperation for Sustainable Development"

28-31 October, 2019. Cairo, Egypt. 8th Africa Agriculture Science Week and FARA General Assembly. This the biggest assembly of actors in Agricultural Research for Development organized every three (3) Years by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Partners at the regional (ASARECA, CCARDESA, CORAF, NAASRO and AFAAS) and country levels (NARES). The 2019 edition is hosted by the Egyptian Agricultural Research Centre (ARC) and the North Africa Agricultural Sub-Regional Research Organization (NAASRO). You don'y want to miss this.

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