Water

11.05.2012

Mekong2Rio - International Conference on Transboundary River Basin Management

Prior to the much anticipated Rio + 20 Conference of sustainable development; about 300 participants were invited to the River Basin Management conference in Thailand. Agreed upon among other key areas of discussion, was that...[more]

Organic agriculture

11.05.2012

Organic Agriculture beneficial for Africa

2nd African Organic Conference urges EU/global partners to facilitate Africa's participation in global organic markets.[more]

Food security

04.05.2012

Climate change, land grabbing and the never ending story of food insecurity

At the conference “Move! United for sustainable development”, hosted by Welthungerhilfe in Bonn, experts, academics and like-minded partner organisations from around the globe discussed ways to achieve the ultimate goal of a...[more]

Gender

04.05.2012

Promoting girls – between goals and realities

Numerous examples have shown that investing in girls’ education not only has a positive social policy effect but also has economic benefits. But are insights also followed by appropriate action? Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung...[more]

Food security

04.05.2012

How can the needs of the earth’s population in the future be satisfied?

Are we ignoring our planet’s ecological limits? Participants at the conference on “taking ecological limits seriously” discussed this question from 19-21 April 2012 in the Evangelische Akademie in Tutzing, Germany.[more]

Food security

20.04.2012

New network to promote “Re-greening Africa”

Participants at the Beating Famine: Sustainable Food Security through Land Regeneration in a Changing Climate conference in Nairobi from 10-13 April have proposed a fifty million US dollars (USD) fund to promote agriculture and...[more]

Cooperatives

07.04.2012

Cooperative responses to global challenges

A three-day conference from 21 – 23 March in Berlin, Germany brought together 236 academics from 56 nations and decision makers from the United Nations and the World Bank. With participants from 56 nations, the conference...[more]

Water

03.04.2012

World Water Forum 2012 Marseille – time for solutions

Every three years since 1997, the World Water Forum gathers all stakeholders around today’s local, regional and global issues that cannot be undertaken without all stakeholders into a common framework of goals and concrete...[more]

Gender

30.03.2012

The Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA)

The Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA) held on 13-15 March, 2012 in New Delhi, India, was well-timed to show that time has come to undertake a holistic stock taking exercise; by drawing on the existing evidence of...[more]

Youth

27.03.2012

Hope for young farmers in Africa

With the ultimate aim of helping to satisfy young people's interest, goals and aspirations in farming, the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University...[more]

Green economy

16.02.2012

International Business Panel: Food security and Green Economy

With its topic “Food security and Green Economy: challenges and chances”, the International Business Panel on the fringe of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin was very much in the spirit of the G20+ conference.[more]

Green economy

18.01.2012

Bonn 2011 Conference: The water, energy and food security nexus

From the 4th to the 6th June 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development –“Rio plus 20” – is to be held in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. In the run-up to this Conference, at the invitation of the German Federal...[more]

COMING EVENTS

13-18 May 2012 - Dublin, Ireland

World Congress on Water, Climate and Energy

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14 -18 May 2012 – Rome, Italy

FAO Regional Conference for the Near East

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20-22 June 2012 - Halle (Saale), Germany

IAMO Forum 2012: "Land use in transition: Potentials and solutions between abandonment and land grabbing"

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20-22 June 2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - UNCSD

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25 - 29 June 2012, Nairobi, Kenya

IUFRO-FORNESSA Africa regional congress "Forests and Trees: Serving the People of Africa and the World"

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26 -28 June 2012 – London, United Kingdom

Agriculture Investment Summit

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8-12 July, 2012 -  Valencia, Spain

International Conference of Agricultural Engineering

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7-10 August 2012 – Bengaluru (Bangalore), India

Biodiversity Asia 2012: Science, Policy, and Governance

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20 - 22 August 2012, Bern, Switzerland

International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD 2012): Research for Global Transformation

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26-31 August 2012 – Stockholm, Sweden

World Water Week

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3-7 September 2012 – Hanoi, Viet Nam

2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change

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9-11 September 2012 - Hyderabad, India

6th International Hybrid Rice Symposium 

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11-12 September 2012 – Dublin, Ireland

The World of Rural Co-operation: How rural co-operatives build a better world,

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12-13 September 2012, Villers-Saint-Christophe (Aisne), Frankreich

PotatoEurope

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12-14 September 2012 – Hamburg, Germany

The 2nd IFOAM Animal Husbandry Conference

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16-21 September 2012 – Busan, Korea

IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition

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19-21 September 2012 – Göttingen, Germany

Tropentag - Resilience of agricultural systems against crisis
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19-21 September 2012 - HangZhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Water Quality 2012: Protecting Our Water Resources – Issues for a Changing World

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22-27 October 2012 – Nairobi, Kenya

ISFM 2012:  Integrated soil fertility management in Africa: From microbes to markets

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29 October 2012 - 01 November 2012 –  Punta del Este, Uruguay

GCARD 2012 - Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development

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30 October - 2 November 2012 - Kigali, Rwanda

African Economic Conference 2012: "Fostering Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Africa in an Age of Global Economic Uncertainty"

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12-15 November 2012 – Sede Boqer Campus, Israel

4th international conference on Drylands, Deserts and Desertification (DDD)

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13 – 16 November 2012 – Hanover, Germany

EuroTier

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