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PLATFORM UPDATE6 November 2019 |
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READY TO DELIVER INNOVATION AND IMPACT ON THE ROAD TO 2030IFAD to become new host of the Platform’s Secretariat
Bonn and Rome, 23 October 2019. The Board of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is pleased to announce that the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), per a decision by its Executive Management Committee, has agreed to host the Platform’s Secretariat starting January 1st, 2020. With this, IFAD takes over the hosting baton from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), which coordinated the Secretariat on commission of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) for the past sixteen years. Both IFAD and BMZ are founding members of the Global Donor Platform and, together with the other 14 Board members, drivers of the strategic development of the Platform. The transition coincides with the strategic repositioning of the Platform that was initiated at the Platform’s 2019 Annual General Assembly in June as a response to the shifting development agenda under the Agenda 2030 and related changing donor landscapes. Members work together to influence ideas and resources for sustainable agriculture and food systems transformation“ – this goal will continue to guide the Platform in the future”, says David Hegwood of the U.S. Agency for International Development, one of the Platform Board’s Co-Chairs, who welcomes IFAD’s commitment with great enthusiasm. On behalf of the Platform he expressed appreciation for BMZ’s years of outstanding support to the Platform by active participation in the Board as well as by ensuring that a well-supported Secretariat professionally facilitated the Platform’s operations. During the transfer of the Secretariat’s services, which will take place as part of a six-month transitional phase, GIZ as the current host and IFAD as new host will closely coordinate to ensure that all services regarding the Platform’s operations and the support to the Platform’s individual Thematic Working Groups will continue. WEBLINK
A WEEK OF DISCUSSIONS AND DECISIONSThe 46th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
From 14 – 18 October 2019, Rome saw the annual gathering of The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) member states, participants, observers, and stakeholders for the 46th meeting of the Committee of World Food Security (CFS). Delegates from 126 countries, key UN organizations, and over 200 private sector and civil society representatives and experts came together for a week of plenary sessions and side-events that focus on food security and nutrition. Following the opening by CFS Chairman Mario Arvelo, the new General Director of FAO, Qu Dongyu, addressed the CFS Plenum for the first time since taking office on 1 August 2019. He called on the member states to participate in the “hand-in-hand” initiative, with which the FAO wants to provide an impulse to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. In his statement, Gilbert Houngbo, IFAD Director General, called in particular for the strengthening of small farms’ resilience. Michael Beasley, WFP Director General, emphasised the importance of the humanitarian-peace nexus and the need for greater involvement of the private sector. CFS 46 began with the presentation of FAO’s 2019 State of Food and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report and followed by a press conference to launch the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2019 Report under the theme of “moving forward on food loss and waste reduction”. The SOFI 2019 report presented the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) for the first time as a new indicator for measuring access to food. Many member states called for action to transform food systems, e.g., through fiscal or food price policies, with a necessary focus on consumer nutrition. One of CFS 46’s central agenda items dealt with the current status of the drafting of the voluntary guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition, which are to be adopted at the 47th CFS in 2020. In the course of the CFS, the plenum adopted the Multi Year Plan of Work (MYPoW) 2020–2023, which for the first time defines CFS’s areas of work for a period of four — instead of two — years. The work plan includes the finalisation of the voluntary guidelines for Food Systems and Nutrition and the policy recommendations on agro-ecology in the context of food systems. The plan also includes new work lines for policy convergence among member states on food security on gender, youth employment, data bases and reducing inequality. The High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the CFS will publish reports on these issues in advance. An HLPE report on the “Global Narrative towards 2030” will be published in 2020. The CFS Working Group on Urbanisation and Rural Structural Change discontinued its work after several CFS interim sessions. WEBLINK
THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (SOFA) 2019Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction
According to The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2019, around 14 percent of the world’s food – an estimate value of US$400 billion - is lost from production before reaching the retail level. Aiming to mitigate the issue, the report offers guidance on policy and interventions to reduce food loss and waste even in the face of the limited information available. SOFA 2019’s release on 14 October 2019 was a prelude to CFS 46. Under the title “Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction”, the report released the first food loss index that sets the baseline for tracking progress in mitigating this global issue. One of many prominent features of SOFA 2019 lies in the identification of “critical loss points” across the food supply chain which look into the location, extent, and commodity groups of food loss and waste. The report argues that the causes of food loss and waste differ widely along the food supply chain, with important causes of on-farm losses being inadequate harvesting time, climatic conditions, practices applied at harvest and handling, and challenges in marketing produce. Moreover, significant losses are caused by inadequate storage conditions, as well as decisions made at earlier stages of the supply chain, which predispose products to a shorter shelf life. In providing guidance on policy and interventions to reduce food loss and waste even in the face of the limited information available, the report relies on two incremental arguments. First, a business case is made, which argues that incentives and adequate information can encourage the private sector to reduce food loss and waste in their own interest. The assumption is that producers or suppliers (private actors) in the food supply chain rationally decide to reduce their food loss and waste reduction in order to maximize their profits while maximize consumers’ well-being. Second, an economic case is presented that is based on the broader benefits that reducing food loss and waste can accrue to help societies such as improved incomes, food security, nutrition, and environmental sustainability.
The report provides strong justification for public intervention in the case of producers or suppliers facing constraints to carry out their plan to reduce food loss and waste or when they are unlikely to take account of the negative implications their levels of food loss and waste have on society. The report further advises policymakers to consider that measures to reduce food loss or waste may also negatively impact the environment. For example, the use of packaging to protect and preserve food may lead to increased levels of plastic pollution in the same way that refrigeration that prevents loss also increases GHG emissions. Therefore, it recommends that complex and context-dependent linkages between food loss and waste and the sustainability of food systems are to be well understood in order to formulate effective policies aimed at addressing environmental concerns through reduction. WEBLINK
A CERES 2030 PERSPECTIVEReducing Post-Harvest Losses in Agriculture
Reducing food waste and loss are long-standing challenges undermining efforts to end hunger, improve farmer incomes, and promote sustainable production and consumption. A Ceres 2030 side-event informed about the progress of their research in this important area. The second goal of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embodies a global commitment to end extreme hunger, while improving nutrition, doubling small-scale food producers’ income and limiting environmental harm by 2030. Ceres 2030 aims to support international donors as they determine where to direct their investments so that these help end hunger and lead to more sustainable food systems. A great deal of research on agriculture interventions is available and Ceres 2030 has embarked on the task of assessing the core lessons from this research for eight key questions in agriculture interventions – one of these topics is post-harvest losses (PHL). Correlating with the theme of this year’s FAO’s State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report, “Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction,” Ceres 2030 chose to highlight their work on PHL at CFS 46. Ceres 2030, funded by the Platform’s members, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), combines state-of-the-art economic modelling – that puts a cost on interventions to achieve SDG 2 (focusing on 2.1, 2.3 and 2.4) – with a series of expert assessment studies or evidence syntheses. In response to the increasing acknowledgment of the link between food loss and waste reduction and SDG2 as well as the urgent need to design effective policy interventions, one of the Ceres 2030 expert teams, led by Brighton Muvumi of the University of Zimbabwe, is assessing specifically the issue of post-harvest losses (PHL). Under Muvumi’s leadership, the team is focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and low and middle-income countries of South Asia and currently scoping and mapping the existing evidence available from academic journal, international organizations, think tanks, and other databases to answer two central questions: (1) What are the interventions that small-scale producers and associated value chain actors can adopt and/or adapt to reduce post-harvest losses along food crop value chains? (2) What are the associated barriers and facilitators for adopting interventions that small-scale producers and associated value chain actors can use to reduce post-harvest losses along food crop value chains? Despite the fact that there is a wealth of research available, Muvumi noted with dismay that many studies reviewed are too short-term to assess the true impact and too few included actual field-tested technologies. The learnings from Muvumi’s research team will be integrated into Ceres 2030’s economic modelling work, explained David Laborde of Ceres 2030, which is assessing the cost of the most effective agriculture interventions to achieve SDG 2 and will shed light on the market and policy failures, which lead to PHL and why successful practices are not adopted more widely. WEBLINK
NEW DIGITAL COUNCIL FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTUREA Digital Council to solve the world’s food problems
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is currently to develop a concept for a Digital Council. A side event at CFS 46 informed on the background and goal of this process and provided information on the progress made so far. In January 2019, at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), Ministers of Agriculture from 74 countries adopted a number of resolutions in a political communiqué about digitalisation in agriculture. The communiqué called upon FAO “to draw up, in consultation with stakeholders, including the World Bank, African Development bank, IFAD, WFP, OECD, WTO, ITU, OIE and CTA a concept for the establishment of an international Digital Council for Food and Agriculture“. On the occasion of CFS 46, FAO hosted and led a multi-stakeholder consultation on the establishment of the International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture. The consultation, which aimed to identify and discuss the needs, scope, and functionality of the intended council is a follow-up of the mandate given to FAO, through the GFFA communiqué, to draw up, in consultation with stakeholders, a concept note for the establishment of an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture. The side-event had a high-level panel comprising of Dr. Sabine Kolloge, Head of Division in the German Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Theo de Jager, President of the World Farmers Organisation (WFO), Cor Wattel, Researcher at Wageningen University and Samuel Varas, FAO CIO Director. The high-level panel discussed the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation and the role the International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture could play. Dr. Sabine Kolloge commended the partners and FAO for following-up on the GFFA commitment and urged the consultation to adhere to the Ministers’ communiqué. She welcomed the progress so far and affirmed their commitment to the questions prepared for the consultation and welcomed all members to send in their input. There was consensus that the council will play an important role in agenda setting in a political context, as well as in looking at impacts, consequences, and limitations. While some speakers spoke of stimulating a technology of optimism and saw a link between digitalisation and the cycle of societal innovation, representatives of civil society organisations and NGOs were not so optimistic. They criticised that digital concepts in agriculture so far place too much emphasis on large-scale farms, whereas it would be necessary to include small-scale farms with their limited access to resources and technologies. They therefore claimed that the council should help establish a framework that contributes to bridge the digital divide. Moreover, further discussion should deal with the question as to whether digitalisation should particularly help increase productivity or combat food security and sustain livelihoods. With regard to the latter, digital applications could also be developed to benefit agro-ecology. The outputs of the consultation process will be fed into the final concept note, which will be presented at the next Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in January 2020 in Berlin. WEBLINK
RURAL YOUTHA theme resonating well at CFS 46
The 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. A side event titled “Growing Young Agripreneurs: How can the next generation of agri-businesses support the transition to sustainable agriculture” brought together young representatives from agriculture and food sectors from different countries who are successfully active in various parts of the agri-food value chain. Together, they shared their views on sustainable agriculture and gave accounts of their experiences on their journey as they started agribusinesses. The participants discussed how solutions and support mechanisms to attract other young people to agriculture and to generate agri-businesses throughout the value chain can be improved. The Swiss FAO Committee, Swedish FAO Committee, FAO, IFAD, Agripreneurship Alliance, Thought for Food, the CFS Private Sector Mechanism (PSM), and Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) organized the side event. A plenary session was the highlight of the various events centred on the topic of rural youth. The session was introduced by the outgoing CFS Chair, Mario Arvelo, and the plenary was kicked off with highlights of CFS 46 sessions and side events. Individuals gave feedback on these sessions and on other items that they consider to have an accelerating effect on SDG 2. In the session, Morgan Cote, a researcher from Canada, presented the results of a survey on the feedback on the sessions within CFS 46. It showed that the top interests and desires of the youth was to be listened to and for their ideas to be valued and considered. She called for more delegates to support young people to attend CFS to promote continuous participation. During the discussions of the CFS Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYpoW) 2020-2023, youth delegates expressed their expectations regarding the proposed youth-themed work stream, “Putting youth at the centre: Engaging youth in FSN policies and practices; and promoting (rural) decent jobs for youth in agriculture and food systems.” They put forward ideas on how a youth perspective can be mainstreamed across the other proposed work streams. Other delegates affirmed that young people should be engaged in all the stages, including implementation, monitoring, and governance of all activities around the MYpoW. On this occasion, the members of the Global Donor Platform’s Rural Youth Thematic Working Group held a physical meeting at the CFS 46 to discuss future steps of the working group in the next phase. The meeting included a presentation on FAO’s Decent Rural Employment Toolbox, which has been designed to provide guidance to policy makers and planners, rural development practitioners, and FAO staff at the country level on how to systematize and scale up ongoing efforts to promote decent employment in rural areas. The group also used the physical to finalise its plans for a side event in November 2019 alongside the YES! Forum and the World Export Development Forum by the International Trade Centre in Addis Ababa. The half-day interactive event on 19 November, titled “Rural Youth And Decent Jobs Creation In Food Systems”, will bring together different perspectives from youth representatives, donors, and government representatives to critically examine constraints that impede decent job creation in food systems in Africa and will go on to provide insights on how opportunities for decent jobs for rural youth can be supported. WEBLINK
CFS 46 - FERTILE GROUND FOR LAND GOVERNANCEResponsible land investment for sustainable food systems
Members 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 Forests (VGGTs) in the context of national food security. GDWGL members held side events highlighting the benefits of responsible land investment for sustainable food systems and how telling stories of people-centred land governance can drive change to land policies and normative frameworks and how these link to the Agenda 2030. GDWGL members also held an informal meeting to give a first round of feedback on a proposed Global Land Governance Report concept note, as well has holding an informal meeting with CSOs to further explore how to formalize engagement between the two groups. This side event, organized by GDWGL partner DFID LEGEND (Land: Enhancing governance for Economic Development) in collaboration with GDWGL members and partners FAO, GIZ, ILC as a lead civil society partner (in turn supported by IFAD and CoRe), and the CFS Private Sector Mechanism, aimed to show the importance of equitable governance of land and natural resource tenure to sustainable investment in agriculture and natural resources, and in making sure that these investments, whether private or public, contribute to food security, improved nutrition, and to the SDGs. GIZ and Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture shared their experiences, challenges, and progress in their joint Support to Responsible Agricultural Investments in Ethiopia (S2RAI-ETH) project about mainstreaming the VGGTs into responsible agricultural investment processes. GIZ, implementing the project on behalf of EU and BMZ, all three of whom are GDWGL members, aimed to increase the respect for and registration of legitimate tenure rights, participatory community consultations, and strengthen the incorporation of civil society in the process. During the side event, ODI stated that there are multiple perspective of what constitutes responsible land investment and how to successfully implement it; however, legal compliance alone is not enough. There must be a recognition of the politics and power behind the management of natural resources, and there is a need to identify and recognise legitimate tenure rights at an early stage, create a level playing field for negotiation, be accountable around global principles, and monitor implementation of investments. The side-event also saw the first round of feedback on the global land governance report concept note. Members of the Global Working Group on Land (GDWGL) attending CFS 46 gave informal feedback on the concept note for a Global Land Governance Report (GLGR), as jointly developed by GLTN/UN-Habitat, FAO, and ILC. During the session, a presentation of the proposed objectives and content of GLGR as well as the institutional structure for the development of the report was made. WEBLINK
FOOD SECURITY THROUGH MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCHAn expert talk with Dr. Shenggen Fan, IFPRI
Climate variability and extremes, in addition to conflict, are among the key drivers behind the recent uptick in global hunger and one of the leading causes of severe food crises. The cumulative effect of changes in climate is undermining all dimensions of food security – food availability, access, utilization, and stability. To dive deeper into the topic, GIZ’s Agriculture Policy and Food Security project in Bonn organized an expert talk on 9 October 2019 on “Food Security in times of climate change – Where do we stand and what shall we do?” with Dr. Shenggen Fan from the International Food Policy Research Center (IFPRI) and Prof. Matin Qaim from the University of Göttingen, Germany. To give an idea of where we stand, Fan presented a figure from IFPRI IMPACT simulations, which estimate that in 2050, climate change will set an additional 46 million people in Sub-Sahara Africa and 14.1 million in Asia at risk of hunger. Climate change may also reduce the global nutrient availability relative to expected technology and market gains by 2050 and countries with high levels of nutrient deficiency will be disproportionally affected. Additionally, the simulations reveal that climate change will also generate a range of disease and food safety impacts that will negatively affect health and nutrition. These estimations clearly signal climate change’s disruptive effect on the progress towards many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To address this issue, Fan emphasized the crucial role of agricultural research and the importance of investing in it. He went on to talk about innovative approaches, such as digital data collection and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) adoption by woman farmers, which generate big data and enhance agricultural productivity, resilience, and greenhouse gas emissions mitigation efforts. In discussing Fan’s keynote speech on research and innovations to address the growing crisis of food security and climate change, Matin Qaim elaborated five key points with a broader perspective on sustainable food systems. First, food insecurity and undernourishment remain unresolved due to various reasons, namely climate shocks, conflicts and migration, population growth, and resource scarcity. His second point endorses CSA practices that are highly productive while simultaneously having a low environmental footprint. He gave an example of how organic agriculture, although often mentioned as a potential game changer, is still contributing to agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the form of land use change. In addition, he highlighted the importance of efficient food and agricultural trade for food security and against the background of climate change. Qaim’s last two points call for diversity in food systems and a shift in consumption patterns. To diversify food systems successfully, he recommended that the topic be highlighted in policy discussions, research projects, and markets’ strategy planning. For the latter point, he appealed for actions from both producers and consumers that will reduce the quantity of food loss and waste along the supply chain. WEBLINK
CREATING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR RURAL YOUTHBuilding on IFAD’s 2019 Rural Development Report
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) organized a joint event on 21 October in Berlin to build on IFAD’s 2019 Rural Development Report - Creating employment opportunities for rural youth. The event was kicked off by Dr. Maria Flachsbarth, the BMZ Parliamentary State Secretary, who highlighted different issues, challenges, and areas for intervention faced by young people in regards to access to finance, promotion of access to land and land rights, and the empowerment of women. She added that BMZ has committed 10 million Euros in additional funding to support and strengthen job creation. She remarked on the need to answer questions on how practitioners can make their work more effective and more connected to other institutions. Cornelia Richter, IFAD’s Vice President, appreciated the German government for funding the Rural Development Report. She highlighted a need for focusing on the topic of youth employment, as by 2030, 30 million young people will enter the working group, which could lead to a risk of having a “lost generation” with rampant migration. She added that migration should be a choice or option, but not as the only available strategy. Richter also outlined IFAD’s action plan for youth, which has an ambitious target of ensuring that all country strategies and half of all new projects are to be youth-sensitive by 2021. She called on to stay clear from over estimating the potential of rural areas and added that investments need to be balanced between rural and urban areas to be effective in providing opportunities. Paul Winters, IFAD’s Associate Vice-President of the Strategy and Knowledge Department, gave an overview of the background and findings from IFAD’s rural development report and highlighted the key findings and messages from the report. He noted that the inspiration was drawn from the 2018 G20 meeting and that during the process of making the IFAD report there was also a general lack of literature around rural youth and economic activities. Winters highlighted that rural youth face particular constraints stemming from the settings within which they reside, the current unprecedented rate of change in different aspects like environment or technology, constraints to skills and capacities, access to finance and land, and gender restrictions. He presented recommendations on what interventions need to be carried forward while emphasising that vocational skills and training alone may not be sufficient if there are no opportunities. Other recommendations included equipping young people with cognitive skills, collaborating with the private sector, and continuously engaging youth in discussions. An interactive panel discussion followed that tackled key questions, for example, how to support job creation for millions of rural youth, make agriculture attractive again to youth, and empower rural youth. In her reflections and closing remarks, Cornelia Richter emphasized that there may be no shortcut when it comes to the topic of rural youth as it requires attention to creating an enabling environment, which also includes the personal dimension. Dominik Ziller, Director of International Development Policy and Governor for IFAD at BMZ, echoed that there may be no silver bullet when it comes to the opportunities for youth, but the topic requires support and acknowledgment. The event ended with an informal reception where participants interacted and networked with each other. WEBLINK
INFOGRAPHIC OF THE MONTHThe price of food loss
The figure above, extracted from the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2019 report, illustrates the potential price and income effects of food loss and waste reductions at various stages of the food supply chain and what they mean to different upstream and downstream actors. It suggests that early intervention to reduce food loss and waste at the upstream stages of supply chain is more preferable than interventions at the lower stages of the chain. WEBLINKPEER-TO-PEER LEARNING:Autumn Webinar Series: See what has happened and what is next The Platform has completed the first three parts of its Autumn 2019 Webinar Series with a great turnout. The virtual events, launched in September, convened participants from development cooperation agencies and academia with a wide range of expertise and generated critical discussions in the context of agriculture and rural development. If you missed the sessions or would like to revisit the materials, make sure to access the recording, presentation material, and report on the Platform’s website by clicking on the corresponding links:
Make sure to also register for our upcoming webinar on Trade-related capacity development for food security and nutrition. In this webinar Georgios Mermigkas of Global Donor Platform member FAO will present FAO’s Multipartner Programme Support Mechanism (FMM) Project “Trade-related capacity development for food security and nutrition.” Please find more details here WEBLINKMEMBERS AND PARTNERS STRATEGIES, PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTSNEW PUBLICATIONS
SUPPORTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ACROSS THE WORLD: JOINT SYNTHESIS REPORT OF THE EU AND ITS MEMBER STATES EVENTS
Mon 18 November 2019 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The International Trade Centre’s annual World Export Development Forum to be hosted at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to explore this year’s theme: Trade and Invest in One Africa
Tue 19 November 2019 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Side Event of the Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth back-to-back to the Youth Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment (YES!) Forum 2019.
Wed 20 November 2019 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The Youth Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Forum (YES! Forum) is a featured event of the Global Entrepreneurship Week. For its second edition, the YES! Forum will be held on November 20 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a pre-event of the World Export Development Forum.
Mon 25 November 2019 | Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire Winning the fight against Corruption in the Land Sector: Sustainable Pathway for Africa’s Transformation.
Mon 25 November 2019 | Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire The AFAAS Africa-wide Agricultural Extension Week (AEW) is expected to bring together around 600 participants from across Africa and the World to take stock on a strategic theme for a better contribution of agricultural extension and advisory to sustainable development in Africa.
Mon 2 December 2019 | Madrid, Spain The Madrid Climate Change Conference, which will feature the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 25) to the UNFCCC and meetings of the UNFCCC subsidiary bodies, will convene from 2–13 December 2019.
Fri 6 December 2019 | Webinar
Last part of the Platforms Autumn Webinar Series in which Global Donor Platform’s member FAO will present its Multipartner Programme Support Mechanism (FMM) Project: Trade-related capacity development for food security and nutrition. More details will be available on the Platform’s website soon.
Tue 10 December 2019 | Brussels, Belgium Join the key annual gathering where European stakeholders engage and discuss the future of agriculture in Europe and the challenges which lie ahead!
Thu 12 December 2019 | Brussels, Belgium Register for a public conference dedicated to food loss and waste prevention! ABOUT USVirtual Board Meeting and Management Meeting The Platform held its last Virtual Board Meeting on 9 October and a Management Meeting on 22 October 2019. Please find the Meeting Minutes in the download section. |
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