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2-3 April 2019 . Brussels.  The European Commission in Brussels – on behalf of the Global Network against Food Crises – hosted the high-level event on food and agriculture in times of crisis. #FightFoodCrises The high-level event: Set the scene of the current and projected situation with respect to food crises and related trends and drivers based on solid and consensus-based evidence. Highlight current and future challenges and opportunities to reduce the risks of food crises, focusing on the role of agricultural livelihoods and related agri-food systems in the framework of social, environmental, economic and security dynamics. Review policies, initiatives, tools, and coordination mechanisms currently in place to address food crises, exploring whether emerging and recurrent challenges require changes and adaptive strategies, and defining areas for improvement and innovative solutions and partnerships. Draw political, strategic and operational conclusions and define a roadmap t...

Ailafoun Dairy Farm, owned by Sudan’s Dal Group and the country’s largest such facility, has in the past brought in foreign cows to increase production. 2 April 2019.   Bloomberg Businessweek. Arab policymakers have been touting Sudan’s ability to feed the populous and water-scarce Middle East since the 1970s. The country features as much as 200 million acres of arable land, a strategic location less than a day’s sail across the Red Sea to the Saudi port of Jeddah, and a roughly 25 percent share of the Nile’s waters under regional agreements, much of it unused. In the Middle East and North Africa, by contrast, World Bank and United Nations statistics show that the number of chronically undernourished people has doubled, to 33 million, since 1990 , and that water availability has tumbled on average to a sixth of the global mean. Abdellatif, chairman of Dal Group, beside a statue of Taharqa, a Nubian king, in the lobby of his office in Khartoum . The benefits for both parties wou...

A G R I C U L T U R AL  Research Common Fund for Commodities — 14th Call for Proposals The CFC calls for proposals that advance  commodity development in its member countries.  Funding is targeted mainly to for-profit organizations and social enterprises for production, value chains, and marketing across a wide group of commodities (agricultural crops, tree crops, timber, bamboo and rattan, minerals, and others). This 14th call for proposals has a deadline on  15 April 2019.  Global Agriculture and Food Security Program — Strengthen Agriculture in low-income Countries GAFSP announces its next call for proposals in the Public Sector Window for programs and projects that strengthen agriculture and lessen food insecurity in low-income countries. GAFSP intends to fund 4-6 proposals for a total of at least US$100 million. Applications (English and French) are limited to 24 countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations: Africa, Middle East and North Afric...

7-9 April 2019.  Cairo.  Africa Food Manufacturing conference 8-9 April 2019.   Prague, Czech. 12th World Congress on Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture 9 April 2019.  Brussels, Belgium.  The Forum for the Future of Agriculture 2019 10 April 2019.  Iloilo, Philippines. Special Session Inclusiveness for Sustainable Sea-Food Security at AFAF 15-16 April 2019. Berlin Germany. 7th International Conference on Integrative Biology 2019 15-16 April 2019. Hong Kong. 5th World Congress on Medicinal Plants and Natural Products Research 17-18 April 2019. The Hague, Netherlands. Agricultural Innovation Seminar 17-18 April 2019. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Regional Conference on ICT and geodata for agriculture and water 22-24 April 2019.  Athens Greece. 3rd Euroscicon Conference on Food Technology 23-24 April 2019.  Geneva, Switzerland.  The FAO/WHO/WTO International Forum on Food Safety and Trade.  24-26 April 2019.  Lome, Togo. West ...

21 March 2019 . FAO estimates that Africa loses about $700 million annually because most agricultural commodities such as maize and ground nuts are contaminated with aflatoxins, and therefore don’t access markets in Europe and America. Researchers from three universities in Africa have secured funds from African Union Research Grants Programme to conduct studies on how to fight aflatoxin in maize, manage diseases in fish and improve the breed of ingenious chicken.This, according to the project, will fight food insecurity on the continent, which has been attributed to lack of sustainable control of diseases. The universities — Makerere in Uganda, University of Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique and the University of Zambia —are leading the project. “One of the key development challenges in Africa is food insecurity and nutrition, x coupled with poverty. To respond to this, we need research that will help us generate innovations. Aflatoxin, which is a key problem the research will address, ...