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December 10 - 11, 2012
Chatham House Food Security Conference: Sustainable Intensification: Miracle or Mirage?
This conference will examine the potential of technologies – old, new and pipeline – to deliver sustainable intensification in agriculture. Business leaders, policy makers, opinion formers and civil society representatives will tease out the implications of the technological approach to sustainable intensification of food production, including the need for regulatory systems to adopt evidence based policies on risks and benefits to ensure resilient production.
December 7, 2012
Harnessing Agricultural Innovation for Transformative Impact
The International Food Policy and Research Institute will hold a special discussion with Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of USAID. A webcast of the event is available.
December 6, 2012
#AskAg Twitter Chat: Making the Case for Investing in African Agriculture
USAID's Development Credit Authority (@USAID_Credit) will host a twitter chat with Acumen Fund (@acumenfund) and Root Capital (@RootCapital), a social investment firm based in Boston, to talk about why they started investing in agriculture in Africa. Join the conversation about moving agriculture financing from a donor activity to a sustainable private investment opportunity.
December 5, 2012
The World at 7 Billion: Building a Sustainable Future
On December 5, the final 2012 installment of the Managing Our Planet series will convene a panel to discuss planetary demographic trends and their implications for ecological management at international and global scales.
December 4, 2012
22nd Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture: Public-Private Partnerships Innovating to End Malnutrition
In this seminar, Josette Sheeran will highlight the public-private partnerships that global institutions like the World Economic Forum and World Food Programme have fostered to help move millions of poor out of hunger and malnutrition, reviewing what worked and which lessons to take away to foster innovative and effective partnerships in the future.
November 28 - 29, 2012
International Forum on Food and Nutrition
The Forum’s fourth edition will host two days of open debate during which the world’s leading experts on matters of food production, consumption, and diet and nutrition will meet to exchange ideas on global food challenges. The objective is to offer important information and insights to policy makers, institutions and civil society in order to promote a better life and widespread and sustainable well-being for everyone.
November 19 - 21, 2012
Innovation System Perspective in Agriculture and Rural Development for Smallholder Farmers
The 11th regional conference of the Southern and Eastern African Association of Farming Systems Research-Extension will be held on November 19-21, 2012, in South Africa. The conference, whose theme is "Innovation System Perspective in Agriculture and Rural Development for smallholder farmers," is intended to share experiences and best practices in moving agriculture from subsistence to commercial among resource-constrained farmers in the region.
November 15 - 16, 2012
Feeding the World: Africa's Role in Solving the Global Food Crisis
November 14, 2012
Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation Program Launch Ceremony
Join senior leaders from agribusiness companies, the U.S. Government, and the development community to hear about a game-changing program focused on identifying, promoting, and commercializing agricultural technologies for smallholder farmers. This event will explain how to engage the program to test and scale up technologies and will describe the support available for partnership and distribution channel development.
November 13 - 15, 2012
Food Security and Nutrition Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting
The FSN Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting in Washington, DC will take place November 13-15, 2012. The meeting will bring together grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around implementation strategies and practices for strengthened resilience and improved food security and nutrition outcomes.
November 12 - 14, 2012
U.S.-Africa Agribusiness Investment Forum: Private Sector Opportunities in Support of Inclusive Agricultural Growth
The Corporate Council on Africa will host the 2012 U.S.-Africa Agribusiness Investment Forum in Ethiopia to introduce the U.S.-Africa Business Center (USABC) and its role in facilitating U.S.-African trade and highlight other initiatives designed to boost agricultural growth, trade and investment.
November 11, 2012
Integrated Pest Management for Horticultural Crops in the Tropical World
The Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP) and the International Association for Plant Protection Sciences will be holding a symposium, IPM for Horticultural Crops in the Tropical World, during the Plant-Insect Ecosystems section of the Entomological Society of America’s 60th Annual Meeting.
November 6 - 9, 2012
Making the Connection: Value Chains for Transforming Smallholder Agriculture
This event aims to bring together the private sector, farmers, governments, civil society, the donor community and others to fully explore the issues related to value chain development and to share experiences. Participants are invited to use this opportunity to connect with peers around the globe and make the connection between work currently being carried out on value chains and their own particular circumstances.
November 5, 2012
Webinar: Mobile M&E Apps for Agriculture Development Projects
USAID's FACET project is hosting a webinar that will look at mobile monitoring and evaluation (M&E) apps that are being used or have the potential to be used in agriculture development projects. It will be based on the forthcoming briefing paper on the same subject written by Alice Liu and Maria Bina Palmisano. The webinar will start at 9:00am ET (GMT -5:00) on Monday, November 5.
October 31, 2012
Agriculture Extension and Advisory Services Under the "New Normal" of Climate Change
This presentation outlines the nature of the challenges, identifies past and present points of successful extension and advisory service engagement, and outlines necessary areas of preparations.

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