Blog posts related to ARD activities in December 2017

03rd January 2018
by secretary

Paepard

Please find hereunder the blog posts related to ARD activities in December 2017. To view the whole blog instead of separate postings click on http://paepard.blogspot.com/

Veuillez trouver ci-dessous les ressources du blog se relatant à la RAD pour le mois de décembre 2017. Pour consulter le blog dans son entièreté au lieu de nouvelles distinctes cliquez sur http://paepard.blogspot.com/. Pour la traduction en français cliquez dans la colonne de droite du blog sur « automatic translation » et choisissez votre langue !

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1. Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028

20 December 2017, New York. The United Nations General Assembly, in its 72nd Session, has officially adopted the Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028. This Decade aims to serve as a framework to promote better public policies on Family Farming, and offers a unique opportunity to contribute end hunger and poverty as well as to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

2. Global Landscapes Forum + video

19-20 December 2017. Bonn. The Global Landscapes Forum brought together 1000 attendees from 103 countries

3. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Climate Change in Africa

19 December 2017. A newly published book by CTA provides insights to these and other questions.

4. The evaluation of the EU development co-operation to Higher Education in partner countries PAEPARD participation + forthcoming video

18 December 2017. Brussels. As the stakeholder consultations are underway to define the next phases of EU programmes, including Erasmus+, the results of a comprehensive evaluation of the six previous programmes Erasmus Mundus (the parts of the programme financed by development co-operation), Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme, Tempus IV, ALFA III, Edulink, and the African Union Support Programme 2 (Pan-African University) are now available.

5. Forum on Migration, Trade and The Global Economy

14 December 2017. Buenos Aires. This Forum offered an innovative platform to stimulate a greater understanding of the intersection between migration and international trade.

6. AgriFoodTech 2017

13-14 December 2017. ‘s-Hertogenbosch the Netherlands.

7. Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture + video

12-14 December 2017. Rome. The GACSA Annual Forum brought together over 200 participants to share evidence and experiences related to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and how CSA solutions can be scaled up.

8. Universities and Climate Change

12 – 13 December 2017. Queen Mary University of London. The Role of Climate Change Research and Projects in Fostering Climate Action.

9. International public flows of climate finance + video

12 December 2017. Paris. The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, decided to refute fatalism in the face of the ecological emergency for our planet by calling together in Paris international leaders and committed citizens from around the world.

10. Productivité du travail agricole : les écarts se creusent entre l’Europe et l’Afrique

12 December 2017.

11. EU and Gates Foundation pledge €500 million for innovations in agriculture

12 December 2017. Paris. The initiative will aim at stronger coordination of strategies and promotion of joint and coordinated actions. It will particularly be based on collaborative activities between member states and all interested partners in order to pool financial resources and human expertise through innovative mechanisms leveraging an increased response.

12. EFARD annual meeting PAEPARD participation + new resources ***

11 December 2017.Brussels. This year, the EFARD annual meeting explored lessons learned including those from the mid-term review of CDAIS and the final evaluation of PAEPARD and from EFARD members to advocate on the way forward for strengthening the engagement, enhancing the contribution and achieving longer-term commitment of EU stakeholders and multistakeholder agricultural research and innovation partnerships for achieving greater development impact. The latest PAEPARD publication on lessons learned on AR4D funding were also released.

13. Agriculture-Nutrition Outcomes for Countries + video

11 December 2017. Brussels. DevCo Infopoint.

14. Agriculture en Afrique de l’Ouest : Le Roppa préconise le modèle familial

8-10 December 2017. Dakar, Senegal. 1er rapport de l’observatoire des exploitations familiales.

15. Climate change adaptation: community-based adaption

7-8 December 2017. Utrecht. The Netherlands. This interactive seminar was a follow up from last year’s conference Climate Change Interventions as a Source of Conflict, Cooperation and New Mobilities.

16. Nigerian Poultry Feeds Research and Development PAEPARD consortium

7-8 December 2017. The Nigerian Poultry Feeds Research for Development (NIPOFERD) Consortium organised the TropiSymposium 2017 event. This was a two day event focused on the current scientific knowledge and technology developments on the use of palm kernel meal and cake in animal production.

17. Network meeting and launch of BiomassNet

7 December 2017. Accra, Ghana, The launch was followed by an exhibition and presentations of demand-driven research projects funded under the BiomassWeb project and other BiomassWeb related projects focused on innovative approaches towards enhancing biomass productivity and utilization in food and non-food production, processing and trading.

18. The European Mineral Fertilizer Summit

6-7 December 2017. Amsterdam. This two-day event provided an exclusive platform for collaboration and discussion between a variety of industry perspectives including manufacturers, suppliers, distribution/logistics, academia but some other involved areas as policymakers, NGO’s, nutrition and environment preservers.

19. Mobile phone service of the Zimbabwe Farmers Union + video

6 December 2017. e-Agriculture organized a webinar in partnership with Mercy Corps on their AgriFin Mobile programma, more specifically on the ZFU Ecofarmer Combo in Zimbabwe.

20. Webinar Innovative Annual Reports + video

6 December 2017. (co-organized by GFAR and GLF).

21. 8th International Forum on Food and Nutrition + video

4-5 December 2017. Milano, Italy. The BCFN Forum is the international platform of dialogue and networking that every year aims to identify the pathway towards concrete solutions to the environmental, health and socio-economic challenges affecting the current food system.

22. 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security

3-6 December 2017. Cape Town, South Africa. The 4th International Conference on Global Food Security in 2018 goes to Montpellier

23. Research & Policy: a dialogue for food security PAEPARD participation + video

1 December 2017. The Hague, the Netherlands. NWO-WOTRO and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform, organized the conference “Research & Policy: two peas in a pod? A dialogue for food security impact”. The conference was organized in in close cooperation with the Dutch Ministries of Foreign and Economic Affairs.

24. Obituary Calestous Juma

Remembering Professor Calestous Juma by William Clark, John Holdren, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Daniel Schrag

25. Public-private partnerships in agriculture PAEPARD participation + new resources ***

30 November 2017. The Hague, the Netherlands. Public-private partnerships can, and do, lead to transformational change. But usually they do not. PPPLab explored what it really takes to use PPPs for transformational change during the PPPLab Day.

26. European Microfinance Week 2017

29 November 2017 – 1 December 2017. Luxemburg. This blogpost features the sessions related to agriculture.

Total number of page views in the month of December 2017: 13,538

Most viewed pages on PAEPARD blog over the past month:

Entry	Page views
EU and Gates Foundation pledge €500 million for innovations in agriculture	762
Obituary Calestous Juma	141

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