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
A Week of Discussions and Decisions: The 46th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Michelle Tang2022-09-23T12:20:47+02:00From 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
Storytelling in Land Governance: From Indigenous Perspective to Common View
Michelle Tang2022-08-29T15:44:28+02:00Many times interests of vulnerable and marginalized groups are overshadowed by larger narratives and overall statistics, making them unheard and unspoken. In taking up this eminently important topic, George Washington University, Planet Forward, International Land Coalition (ILC), World Rural
