Nouvelles et Evènements
TAP-AIS project: Virtual trainings on AIS assessment in Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Eritrea
20 October 2020
20 October 2020
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Between September and October 2020, training sessions on AIS assessment were organised in Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Eritrea by the country teams with support from FAO HQ staff. The AIS assessment training focused on building four main assessment blocks:
Structural
Functional
Capacity
Enabling Environment analysis.
The sessions...
Celebrating World Food Day: FAO’s work on innovation in the context of the Tropical Agriculture Platform
16 October 2020
16 October 2020
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Developing capacity to innovate
FAO believes that innovation in agriculture is the central driving force for achieving a world free from hunger and malnutrition. As countries around the world suffer the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's World Food Day calls for global...
The National Inception workshop of the TAP-AIS project was held in Asmara, Eritrea, on 17 September 2020, with a mix of virtual and in-presence participation. Thirty-one representatives of the main institutions operating in the Agricultural Innovation System in Eritrea, took...
Launch of DeSIRA initiative: discussing the role of agricultural research and innovation for development to address food systems transition
08 September 2020
08 September 2020
The objective of the virtual event was to discuss the role of agricultural research and innovation for development to address food systems transition and the contribution of the DeSIRA initiative.
At country level, good progress has been made in the second quarter of 2020: project teams have been established and meetings have been organized in Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Eritrea. Letters of agreement are being signed in support of...