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Posts on the topic "fishermen"

Posts on the topic "fishermen"

  • Call for innovative digital solutions for agriculture (by 8 June)

    Background Land and water resources in NENA are limited and facing severe stress. Climate change projections suggest more drought and extreme events. A transformative approach is needed to support agricultural production system to become more productive and sustainable to address these challenges...
    Jordan, Amman

  • Pitch Event of Global AgriInno Challenge 2022

    Register here 16 December Friday| 13:00-15:00 CET 20:00-22:00 Beijing Time The Global AgriInno Challenge 2022, co-organized by FAO and Zhejiang University, encourages youth and women to harness innovation, entrepreneurship, and technologies to address challenges related to the agrifood...

  • Save the Date: Side event for the FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022 : Innovation Dialogue

    A common space for open, inclusive discussion for sharing robust science and evidence-based options for more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems REGISTER 14th October, Friday 12:00-13:30 (Rome) | 18:00-19:30 (Beijing) The event will focus on answering two questions by drawing on experience from two experts from ZJU and also a group of panel speakers from International Organizations such as World Bank, African Development Bank and Cornell University. ● How to support the development of digitalization, innovation and agripreneurship in agri-food systems?● How to...

  • FAO SCIENCE AND INNOVATION FORUM

    The FAO Science and Innovation Forum will focus on highlighting the centrality of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for agrifood systems transformation, and encourage a diversity of perspectives based on science and innovation, thereby facilitating rationalization and inclusiveness of debate. The FAO Science and Innovation Forum will be organized together with the World Food Forum (WFF) and Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum in the week of 17th October 2022. More specifically, the objectives of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum are to: explore scientific and technological advances and...

  • Register to attend the WSIS Action Line C7: E-Agriculture "ICTs for Well-Being, Inclusion and Resilience: through digital skills for youth and women in agriculture"

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in conjunction with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) invite interested persons to attend virtually and in-person (for those already in Geneva) the following WSIS Session: Theme "ICTs for Well-Being, Inclusion and Resilience: through digital skills for youth and women in agriculture" Time Thursday, 2 June 2022 14:30–16:15 (UTC+02:00) Time Conversion Attend in-person : Room C1, ITU Tower Building ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland virtual : Register here for zoom details About the session This hybrid-session...

  • Fostering the digital transformation of agriculture through strategies: national and local perspectives

    Friday, 13 May 2022 at 9:00-10:00 (CEST), Hybrid (Lodz, Poland and virtual) Digital technologies are yielding new growth in the food and agriculture sector and in rural areas. Connectivity, mobile adoption, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies are opening doors to new opportunities. However, the digital technology dividends are not automatic. Some rural areas in Europe and Central Asia are still falling behind when it comes to the adoption of new technologies due to bottlenecks in the broadband infrastructure, affordability, awareness, digital skills and regulatory issues...

  • eCommerce Week 2022: Data and Digitalization for Development

    The eCommerce Week will take place simultaneously in Geneva and online from 25 to 29 April 2022 , organized by UNCTAD in collaboration with eTrade for all and other partners. The 2022 edition will be held under the theme “Data and Digitalization for Development”, putting a special emphasis on data...
    Switzerland, Geneva

  • International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    Date : 11 February 2022 Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past decades, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engaging women and...

  • Apply now for the 2022 Champion and Partnership Awards by 15 March 2022

    Nominations are now open for the FAO Champion Award and the FAO Partnership Award until 1 March 2022. The new annual Awards acknowledge progress in achieving FAO's objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  The Awards are open to individuals, organizations, governments, foundations, academia or private sector leaders across the world.  We want to hear successful stories of agrifood systems transformation, advocating for change, or bringing about a chain reaction towards better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life. Celebrate the efforts of...

  • Impact Maker Program : Targeting MENA and Sub-Sahara region

    Berytech has partnered with Future Agro challenge (FAC), Agricatalyst innovations , FAO and FoodMakers -FAC- South Africa funded by SANAD TAF , for the second edition of the Impact maker program. In this context, the partners are calling for eligible ecosystem builders in the MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa region to apply to the Impact Maker Program. The organizers are looking for ecosystem builders (incubators, accelerators, NGOs, for profit enterprises…) interested to strengthen their capacities of Impact Makers to support innovation and entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector, to join a 12-...