June 2018 PAEPARD blog posts

03rd July 2018
by secretary

Paepard

To the 9,760 members of the PAEPARD Dgroups (+ 75 during this month)

Aux 9,760 membres du PAEPARD Dgroups

Please find hereunder the blog posts related to ARD activities in June 2018. 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 juin 2018. 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 !

Por favor, encontre aqui os posts do blog relacionados à ARD atividades. Para visualizar todo o blog, em vez de postagens em separado clique em http://paepard.blogspot.com/. Para a versão em Português, clique na coluna da direita do blog “tradução automática” e escolha o seu idioma!

1. Webinar Agriculture, Food and Jobs in West Africa

28 June 2018. Webinar

2. The Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy + video

25 – 29 June 2018. Accra, Ghana. The ANH Academy Week programme featured Learning Labs (training workshops) offered by ANH Academy partners, a scientific Research Conference with invited papers, poster and panel sessions, and many opportunities for networking with other researchers and research-users.

3. 2nd African Symposium on Mycotoxicology PAEPARD participation

24 – 27 June 2018. Mombasa (Kenya). The conference created awareness on the importance of mycotoxins in food and feed safety, human and animal health and the economic impact on the African continent.

4. Canadian research projects in Africa

Since 2009, CIFSRF has funded 39 applied, collaborative, and results-oriented research projects.

5. Access agriculture platform now in Spanish

The Access Agriculture (AA) website hosts training videos in support of sustainable agriculture in developing countries

6. Nutrition Champions Win 2018 World Food Prize

25 June 2018. Drs. Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro were announced as the 2018 World Food Prize Laureates during a ceremony at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

7. Francophone Africa Business Forum (FAB Forum)

19 June 2018. The Hague. The FAB Forum was an opportunity to meet close to 200 business men and women (as well as public sector representatives) from Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and other Francophone countries, all in a single day

8. Conflict-sensitive adaptation to climate change in Africa new resource **+ video

This edited volume focuses on conflict-sensitivity in climate change adaptation strategies and practices in Africa and brings together the voices of academics, practitioners and policymakers from across the globe and Africa.
18-24 June 2018. Climate Diplomacy Week is a time, where EU Delegations around the world reach out to communities and partner organisations, highlighting positive global action and collaboration on climate change

9. Climate Adaptation Futures 2018 + video

18-21 June 2018. Cape Town, South Africa. The conference aimed to facilitate dialogues for solutions between key actors from diverse perspectives and regions and attracted over 1300 scientists, practitioners, business leaders and policymakers from around the world.

10. Experience Capitalization for Continuous Learning

This course introduces the methodology and process of experience capitalization. It gives you guidance and tools to help you plan and implement your own experience capitalization process, and ensure its efficiency and effectiveness.

11. ARD funding opportunities PAEPARD activity

12. Workshop ERA-NET on climate change and food systems

18-19 June 2018. Brussels. A workshop with the Belmont Forum to continue the scoping work for the future ERA-NET on Climate Change and Food Systems.

13. Financing Start-ups to Build Tomorrow’s African Economies new resource **

May 2018. 52 pages

14. Research; Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security + video

14-15 June 2018. Plovdiv, Bulgaria. This was the second FOOD2030 High Level event.

15. Webinar: Delivering African Climate Information Services

14 June 2018. This webinar displayed learning from an assessment of the effectiveness and sustainability of seven African National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to deliver CIS (Senegal, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and Niger)

16. General Assembly of the Donor Platform for Rural Development new resource ***+ video

13-14 June 2018. Berlin. Young and ready to move – empowering the new generation in the rural space. Annual General Assembly of the Donor Platform for Rural Development.

17. Donor engagement with rural youth new resource ***

Prepared for the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Maria Lee, May 2018, 72 pages

18. Maximizing Finance for Development in Agricultural value chains

This report provides details on maximizing finance for development in agricultural value chains

19. The Economics and Nutrition of Soy in School Lunch new resource ***+ video

12 June 2018. The Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) hosted this webinar

20. CBA12: Local experience driving climate action new resource ***+ video

11-14 June 2018. Lilongwe. 12th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation.

21. Empowering women to start their own enterprises

Watch this new video telling the story of Jennifer Nzioka Mutunga, a chicken farmer from Kenya, who turned chicken rearing from a household task into an enterprise with support from SNV’s Enhancing Opportunities for Women’s Enterprises (EOWE) programme.

22. EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018 new resource ***+ video

11-12 June 2018. Stockholm, Sweden. Over 600 participants from science, politics, business and civil society from over 50 countries gathered at the fifth EAT Stockholm Food Forum.

23. High level conference on job creation, growth and competitiveness in West + video

7 June 2018. Brussels. Side event European Development Days.

24. Africa Innovation Summit 2018 + video

6-8 June 2018. Kigali. The focus of AIS 2018 included energy access, water, health, food security and climate change. The European Commission organized a Workshop session on Creating opportunities for innovation cooperation between Africa and Europe; and a full day awareness activity ” Horizon 2020 Info Day” to share with Participants the Funding opportunities for cooperation between Africa and Europe through Horizon 2020.

25. International Forum on Food and Nutrition + video

6 June 2018. Brussels. The International Forum on Food and Nutrition, organized by the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrion (BCFN) in partnership with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) shared ideas and experiences in ways that inspire new partnerships and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

26. Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation

5-6 June 2018. New York, USA

27. Africa Food Safety Workshop 2018

4-8 June 2018. Pretoria. The workshops contributed to better food safety control systems in Africa while establishing and strengthening networks among food safety stakeholders.

28. Agriculture related sessions at the European Development Days + video

5-6 June 2018. Brussels.

29. African Farming’s Agro-Investment Summit

4-5 June 2018. London, United Kingdom.

30. E-learning course on Reviewing Assessment Reports of the IPCC + video

5 June 2018. Future Climate for Africa organised a micro e-learning course on Expert and Government Review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports.

31. e-Agriculture Webinar on Audio-Based Agriculture Extension + video

5 June 2018. Cliff Schmidt founded Amplio in 2007 and led the development of the Talking Book.

32. AFAAS Webinar: Bringing Postharvest management solutions + video

5 June 2018. The AFAAS webinar series on Postharvest Management (PHM)

33. Report on the survey among fishers in Benin

30 May 2017. ACED has been awarded a research grant from the Food and Business Applied Research Fund of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to implement this project. A report has been published (68 pages) on the survey among fishers around Lake Nokoué and Porto-Novo Lagoon in Benin

34. How companies address undernutrition in low-income countries new resource ***+ video

May 2018, 216 pages. It is not always necessary to fortify food products with added micronutrients. Micronutrient deficiencies may be addressed as well through ingredients that are naturally high in the micronutrient(s)

35. The Africa Financial Alliance for Climate Change + video

21-25 May 2018. Busan, Korea. Busan, Korea’s second city, hosted the annual meeting of the AfDB’s board of governors, with the focus on the industrialisation in Africa.

36. Foresight4food

22-24 May 2018.Montpellier, A second Foresight4Food workshop was held as a follow-up to the Oxford in April 2017.

Total number of page views in the month of June 2018: 35,903

Most viewed pages on PAEPARD blog over the past month:

Entry	Page views
ARD funding opportunities	3,141
Agriculture related sessions at the European Development Days	476
High level conference on job creation, growth and competitiveness in West	204

More: forthcoming ARD conferences: http://paepard.blogspot.com/2018/05/upcoming-events-in-agriculture-research.html

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