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Pan African FO Exchange Platform-UNFCCC Webinars JOINT SESSION: African Farmers’ Organizations, and the COP29 – Priorities, Advocacy, Finance
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Date: 31 October 2024 Time: 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM (Kigali Time, GMT+2) Registration Link: CLICK HERE Introduction In the current global climate crisis, the impacts of climate change are particularly felt in African agriculture, a crucial sector for food security and rural livelihoods. African Farmers’ Organizations (FOs), as key players in agricultural production, face the necessity of strengthening their resilience to these changes while actively participating in global decision-making

Global Family Farming Forum: Halfway through the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028
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Family farmers produce 80 per cent of the world’s food in value terms, meaning that a good portion of the food you eat daily probably comes from a family farm. As well as contributing to food security and nutrition worldwide, family farmers also manage natural resources, innovate in the face of climate events, ensure the cohesion of rural communities and preserve cultural heritage. But family farming has greater potential still.

World Farmers’ Organisation 2024 Annual Meeting, 17 - 21 June
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From June 17 to 21, 2024, the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) hosted its Annual Meeting. This year, the event was held at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, and was simultaneously livestreamed on the WFO YouTube page. The meeting annually gathers hundreds of family farmers, young and women farmer leaders, farmers’ organizations, and agricultural cooperatives from across the globe, as well as other relevant stakeholders such as government representatives, multilateral institutions,

VIDEO CONTEST 2024: Innovations for and by family farmers
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Participate in the family farming contest and send in your videos. Your videos will compete for the opportunity to be presented at the Global Family Farming Forum in October 2024 in Rome, Italy. The videos should illustrate how family farmers can be supported by innovations. These innovations might combine old and new food system practices and organizational processes, using traditional and diverse forms of knowledge and connecting these with newly available information

Call for Submissions: Innovation award on farmer field schools for sustainable agrifood systems
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A P P L Y   N O W ! The Global Farmer Field Schools platform in FAO’s Office of Innovation is excited to announce the launch of the Innovation Award for Farmer Field Schools for Sustainable Agrifood Systems! This award will help collect, celebrate, and share impactful innovations in the implementation of FFS in support of the transition towards sustainable agrifood systems, including agroecology. Who Can Apply? Anyone involved in FFS, including

Family farming and climate-resilient agrifood systems
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Food and agricultural production practices applied by family farmers – including agroecological and integrated systems; recycling of nutrients, energy and waste; natural pest control; crop diversification; and efficient management of natural resources and soil health – present promising opportunities to address climate change given that they allow high-level adaptation capacity to new environmental circumstances. This adaptation capacity is embedded in the local knowledge that is being continuously renewed through observations

Third session of the II cycle of technical exchanges for family farming
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Time: 10 am (Santiago de Chile time) / 3 pm (GMT +1) Date: June 4 Modality: Webinar – via Zoom Register Here Within the framework of the Regional Technical Platform for Family Farming and the United Nations Decade for Family Farming, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the II Edition of the Technical Exchange Cycles for Family Farming, which will work on the topic of Purchasing Public Family

Webinar: Global solutions for integrating gender equality in farmer field schools (FFS)
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In many countries, women are the unrecognized driving force of agrifood systems, yet they often face barriers to full participation in decision-making and income-generating activities. Globally, 36 per cent of working women are employed in agrifood systems. Gender inequality remains a key driver of poverty and one of the most widespread forms of injustice globally. Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have emerged as powerful tools for breaking down these barriers and

Event: Prospective Analysis of Senegalese Agriculture in 2050: Agro-industry versus Agroecology?
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Join the public hybrid event titled “Prospective Analysis of Senegalese Agriculture in 2050: Agro-industry versus Agroecology?” on April 16, 2024, from 09:30 to 12:30 GMT, co-organized by MAERSA, ISRA-BAME, FAO, and CIRAD, at the Auditorium, ISRA Hann Research Center, Dakar, Senegal. Online participation will also be possible. The event’s main objective will be to share and discuss with participants the key findings of the prospective exercise “AgroEco2050-Senegal” and its implications

A learning framework for inclusive, integrated and innovative public policy cycles for family farming
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Public policies for family farming – when done appropriately – provide a perfect match between different policy areas related to productive, economic, social, environmental and cultural dimensions of sustainable food systems. The Learning framework for inclusive, integrated and innovative public policy cycles for family farming was developed under the framework of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) to support policymakers, family farmers’ organizations and other relevant stakeholders to