Events for October 16, 2015

During the month of October 2015, the Livestock Production Systems Branch of Animal Production and Health Division, FAO will host, as part of the “Save Food” initiative, an e-conference on "Utilization of Food Loss and Waste as well as Non-Food Parts as Livestock Feed".

The theme of the event “is Reinvigorating Extension Services for Market-led Agriculture within the Context of the Malabo Declaration”. The event is expected to bring together agricultural extension and advisory services practitioners and other agricultural value chain actors across and outside Africa.

The main focus of this years' colloquium, organized by the University of Hohenheim, is on grasslands as jeopardized ecosystems due to increasing intensity and competitiveness use of grasslands worldwide.