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Informal Consultation for Europe and Central Asia 2023
Budapest (Hungary), 04/05/2023 - 05/05/2023
The Informal Consultation for Europe and Central Asia provides a platform on which the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia and Members can interact, facilitating consultation on key issues in the region. The main purpose of the Informal Consultation in 2023 is defining the FAO priorities for the Europe and Central Asia Region for 2024-2025, which will be presented for endorsement at...
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FAO Regional Launch Event and Workshop on the Implementation of the OCOP Country Projects in Europe and Central Asia
Tashkent (Uzbekistan), 02/05/2023 - 03/05/2023
FAO launched the Global Action on Green Development of the Special Agricultural Products (SAPs): “One Country One Priority Product” (OCOP) in September 2021 to address the current and recurring challenges of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition as well as to contribute to the development of smallholders and family farms, amongst other strategic objectives. Subsequently, in July 2022, the OC...
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2023
Promoting youth engagement in agriculture and food systems in Europe and Central Asia
Virtual Event, 26/04/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) is organizing a series of regional youth consultations on promoting youth engagement in agriculture and food systems in Europe and Central Asia.
Participants will discuss how to enlarge youth engagement in agricultural value chains in the region. The event will consider the benefits and gains that youth can bri...
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2023
39/7 Meeting of the Executive Committee of the ECA
Virtual Event, 21/04/2023
The 39/7 meeting of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the European Commission on Agriculture (ECA) is scheduled for 21 April 2023. The Committee will be provided with an update on the impact of the war in Ukraine on food security and related matters in countries of Europe and Central Asia and beyond, and with technical information on REU’s work relating to agricultural matters and food secu...
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2023
Reduction of Food Loss and Waste in Central Asia, Azerbaijan, and Türkiye - Project closing event
Virtual Event, 17/04/2023
FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Republic of Türkiye bring together national stakeholders and partner organizations from across the sub-region to mark the closure of the three-year project “Reduction of Food Loss and Waste in Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Türkiye” and present the main results of their activities since the project commencement in 2...
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2023
Inception Workshop on Carbon Sequestration through Climate Investment in Forests and Rangelands
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Hybrid Event, 11/04/2023
On Tuesday 11 April FAO is organizing the launch of the FAO-GCF project “Carbon Sequestration through climate investment in forests and rangelands (CS-FOR) in the Kyrgyz Republic”.
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2023
Rural women, agritourism and digitalization: practices and experiences that contribute to sustainable development
Virtual Event, 30/03/2023
The FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia and UN World Tourism Organization is organizing an online side event during the UNECE Regional Sustainable Development Forum “ Rural women, agritourism and digitalization: practices and experiences that contribute to sustainable development” on 30 March 2023 to showcase promising practices from Albania, Chile, Georgia, Spain and ...
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2023
Roundtable on SDG 11 - Cities leading the transformation: SDGs in action and the new multilateralism
Hybrid Event, 29/03/2023
Approximately 75% of emissions originate from cities, whilst by 2050, urban areas are expected to house over two-thirds of the global population. Cities will therefore play a critical role in the push to achieve sustainable development. Cities are also the site of tackling local complex issues such as housing, energy, transportation, waste and water management, disaster risk reduction, air p...
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2023
ECA Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 2023 Food Systems Stocktaking Moment
Geneva (Switzerland), 28/03/2023
The Issue-Based Coalition on Sustainable Food Systems and the United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub are organizing the “Regional preparatory meeting for the Food Systems Stocktaking Moment (STM),” which will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 28 March 2023, during the 2023 UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development.
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2023
Localizing SDGs: Agrifood systems transformation as a key accelerator
Virtual Event, 27/03/2023
2030 is seven years away and we are far from achieving the SDGs. We are at risk of not achieving in full the targets related to agrifood systems by 2030. Climate change, along with other drivers and crises, is already undermining the recent progress made in promoting sustainable rural livelihoods and fighting against all forms of malnutrition. To continue ensuring food security and nutrition...
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2023
Launch: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2022
Virtual Event, 14/03/2023
In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) renewed the commitment to ending hunger and malnutrition and reducing premature mortality caused by non-communicable diseases.
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2023
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2023
Regional Training on Strengthening seed system management in South European and Central Asian countries
Yerevan (Armenia), 13/03/2023 - 17/03/2023
In the framework of the regional programme on seed system and the project titled “Creating enabling environments for enhanced climate resilience in agriculture”, FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia is organizing a regional training between 13-17 March 2023 Yerevan, Armenia, to strengthen seed system management in South European and Central Asia c...
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2023
Seventh Meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of Central Asia
Hybrid Event, 09/03/2023
The 7th Meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of Central Asia will be held during the international conference “Cooperation on food security in the context of climate change,” in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
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Regional Conference on Food Systems Sustainability
İstanbul (Türkiye), Hybrid Event, 07/03/2023 - 08/03/2023
The 13 Member Nations of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) face multiple challenges regarding agrifood systems including unbalanced diets, increased incidence of issues related to food safety, transboundary animal and plant disease outbreaks, and significant levels of food loss and waste.
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2023
39/6 Meeting of the Executive Committee of the ECA
Virtual Event, 01/03/2023
The 39/6 meeting of the Executive Committee of the European Commission on Agriculture (ECA) is scheduled for 1 March 2023. The Committee will be provided with an update on the impact of the war in Ukraine on food security and related matters in countries of Europe and Central Asia and beyond, and with technical information on REU’s work relating to agricultural matters and food security in the ...
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2023
Sixth Meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of Central Asia
Virtual Event, 15/02/2023
The meeting entitled “Agricultural finance for the Sustainable Enhancement of Agricultural Productivity in Central Asia” will address pathways to increase agricultural productivity that delivers economic growth in an environmentally sustainable way. It will explore innovative models to encourage on-farm investment by the smallholders in new technologies and vital agricultural inputs through acc...
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2023
Regional workshop on FAO–Türkiye Partnership Programmes
Baku (Azerbaijan), Hybrid Event, 24/01/2023
The FAO–Türkiye partnership Programmes consist of the FAO–Türkiye Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture and the FAO–Türkiye Forestry Partnership Programme.
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2023
Training on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
İstanbul (Türkiye), 23/01/2023 - 25/01/2023
Small-scale family farmers can be instrumental in elevating human rights in the food and agriculture sector – a key element in ensuring the sustainability of food security.
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FAO at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2023
Berlin (Germany), 18/01/2023 - 21/01/2023
The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference on central issues of global agricultural and food policies, held in Berlin on an annual basis. At the 2023 edition, 2000 visitors from politics, business, academia, and civil society will discuss in Berlin how to bring about successful ...
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2023
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FAO–Hungarian Government Scholarship Programme 2023–2024
Budapest (Hungary), 15/01/2023 - 28/02/2023
The following Master of Science degree course is offered in English for the 2023–24 academic year:
- Master in Agricultural Water Management Engineering
- Master in Biotechnology