26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26)
Michelle Tang2023-06-07T14:56:44+02:00GLOBAL | 1 – 12 NOVEMBER 2021 | GLASGOW Links The UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October
Independent Dialogue: African Youth as Drivers for Decent Job Creation in Sustainable Food Systems
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T12:24:22+02:00On 30 June 2021, the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Rural Youth Employment (RYE) organised an Independent Dialogue to the United Nation Food System Summit (UNFSS). The event was centred around two game-changing solutions proposed to the UNFSS by
Towards More Inclusive Pathways of Structural Transformation for a Brighter Future of Work for Youth In Rural Areas (Webinar)
Michelle Tang2022-08-31T11:47:03+02:00On 30 June 2021, the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Rural Youth Employment (RYE) organised an Independent Dialogue to the United Nation Food System Summit (UNFSS). The event was centred around two game-changing solutions proposed to the UNFSS by
A Big “YES” to Youth Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T17:21:10+02:00On 20 November, the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia hosted the second edition of The Youth Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Forum (YES! Forum). The event built upon the first edition of the YES! Forum held in Dakar in 2018
Creating Employment Opportunities for Rural Youth: Building on IFAD’s 2019 Rural Development Report
Michelle Tang2022-08-26T17:25:35+02:00The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) organised a joint event on 21 October in Berlin to build on IFAD’s 2019 Rural Development Report - Creating employment opportunities
A Digital Council to Solve the World’s Food Problems
Michelle Tang2022-08-29T14:17:34+02:00By 2050 we will have to feed more than two billion more people, and that with resources becoming scarcer. The Digitisation in agriculture has a high potential to overcome these enormous challenges and hence has arrived on the international agenda.
Rural Youth – A Theme Resonating Well at CFS46
Michelle Tang2022-09-26T10:49:51+02:00The topic of rural youth was prominently featured this year at CFS 46 with a large number of youth delegates engaged in different side events and participating in different plenary sessions during the week.
SOFA 2019: Moving Forward on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
Michelle Tang2022-08-29T14:36:17+02:00On 14 October 2019, Rome saw the gathering of FAO’s member states, participants, observers and stakeholders for the 46th meeting of the Committee of World Food Security (CFS). A press conference to launch FAO’s report on "The State of
A Ceres2030 Perspective: Reducing Post-Harvest Losses in Agriculture
Michelle Tang2022-09-23T12:17:50+02:00Reducing food waste and loss are long-standing challenges undermining efforts to end hunger, improve farmer incomes, and promote sustainable production and consumption. A Ceres2030 side-event informed about the progress of their research in this important area.
CFS 46 – Fertile Grounds for Land Governance
Michelle Tang2022-08-29T15:22:58+02:00Members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land (GDWGL) were active during CFS 46 in Rome to raise the profile of land tenure security and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and
