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Gerda Verburg (fomer Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and now Chair of the UN Committee on World Food Security) will speak about Paradigm shift to secure food: The world food system is full of paradoxes. »
The Africa Food Security Conference on the 9 and 10th of september will be aimed at building a refocused program and establishing monitoring mechanisms to address the needs of a dynamic food security program. »
This seminar is preparatory to the conference on Family Farming, which will be held in Utrecht on December 15, 2014. Core question of this conference is: What support do African family farmers need in order to improve their entrepreneurial performance? »
On Thursday morning, September 11, 2014, LANDac together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organizes the launch of the World Bank report ‘Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity’. »
The Agri-ProFocus partnership organizes an Expert Meeting ‘Vision 2030: making current approaches work for sustainable agriculture. How can agro-ecology and other approaches support farmers to feed the world sustainably by 2030’ (by invitation only). »
This course perceives farmers as autonomous entrepreneurs, not as target groups or beneficiaries. In this light, farmers’ organisations become business supporters. The central question is how farmers, through collective action of their organizations, can better access credit, remunerative markets, and improve their production and yields. »
In this course, you will look at ways to minimize losses, reduce food waste and explore alternative uses. Ultimately, reduction of losses contributes to food security. »
Public debate organized by TNI – Agrarian Justice, on September 19 from 20:00 till 22:00 about Why small-scale organic agriculture is key to global food security. »