The Nutrition Congress Africa 2012 is a joint scientific meeting of the 24th congress of the Nutrition Society of South Africa, the 12th congress of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa and the 5th African Nutrition Epidemiology Conference hosted jointly by the Nutrition Society of South Africa (NSSA), Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA) and the African Nutrition Society (ANS). It will be focusing on "Transforming the Nutrition Landscape in Africa".
Ecosystems such as streams, rivers, inland and coastal wetlands, grasslands, and forests provide numerous services that fundamentally support human health and well-being. This international conference will explore innovative science-based strategies that are socially and culturally acceptable to create, manage, and restore these ecosystems, ensuring that society has access to all these ecosystem services.
The Economist will convene leaders from the food and agribusiness industry, government, academia and advocacy organisations for a solutions-driven dialogue around these critical questions: How will we feed the world in the future? How will we feed Asia? By gathering leaders at the highest levels The Economist is sparking a timely and inclusive dialogue in this the inaugural year of Feeding the World: Asia’s prospect of plenty.
The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2012 - from 26 to 28 September in Arusha, Tanzania - will continue the global dialogue that began with the World Economic Forum on Africa and the G8.
At this Ag Sector Council Seminar, presenters from USAID, World Bank, and the FAO will discuss the important role of aquaculture in addressing food security and poverty reduction in developing countries, and will provide projections of how much aquaculture must grow in order to meet future demand.
The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) will take place on September 26-28 at The Heritage Hotel, Manila, the Philippines, hosted by the Asia-Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services (APIRAS) Network. The meeting will contribute to thematic exchange on rural advisory services (RAS) and give participants the opportunity to discuss GFRAS strategic directions and functioning.
Join a discussion exploring agriculture and international affairs with Paul Matteucci (General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners): "Feeding 10 Billion: Entrepreneurs as Change Agents" at John Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
This three-day, practitioner-driven event shares promising practices and models in Savings-led Microfinance and Village Savings and Loan (VS&L) programming. PCI, with funding from a TOPS micro grant, is organizing the “Be the Bank” Forum – Small Savings, Big Impact, to build the capacity of participants to implement cost-effective and locally viable practices to reduce food insecurity through the implementation of successful "Village Savings and Loan" (VSL) methodologies.
In addition to the launch of the Cocoa Toolkit, the National Cocoa Forum will bring together more than 100 cocoa farmers and representatives from public and private actors (local and international) along the cocoa value chain as well as from universities, research centers, and NGOs to discuss the role and impact of cocoa on rural development in Nicaragua and the region in general.
Please join us for a discussion on the purpose and use of the Learning Agenda and to learn more about what Feed the Future has planned to contribute to the knowledge gaps around food security. Join the #AskAg Twitter chat hosted by Agrilinks, USAID, and Feed the Future to speak directly with Emily Hogue of USAID’s Bureau for Food Security and Magda Ismail of the The Millennium Challenge Corporation.
The goal of this symposium is to highlight examples of how food processing can create markets for smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs, reduce food losses, improve nutrition, and meet changing food demand. The discussion will also focus on how public, private and civil sector organizations can facilitate the required innovative food technologies, business expertise and policy environment in Africa.
The 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change will be held September 3-7, 2012, in Hanoi, Vietnam, and will include a high level session on September 6.
This year's Africa2Ag week will be held at the Pennsylvania State University's University Park campus during the first week of the Fall semester. The theme of the week will be "The next generation of African agriculture: youth, innovation, science and technology." All events are free of charge and open to all. Only the Africa Collaboration Colloquium event and the Wednesday afternoon youth and African agriculture symposium require registration.
John Furlow from USAID's Global Climate Change team, will be holding a standing meeting to bring together the DC-based climate change adaptation community. This meeting's speakers will be Elizabeth Gray and Kristen Patterson from The Nature Conservancy (TNC). They will be presenting on TNC’s climate change adaptation work in Africa.
The Center for Global Development will host Michael Froman, President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant for International Economics, for a discussion of the Obama Administration's strategy to achieve poverty alleviation and sustained economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
