Events
FAO's Global Soil Partnership is pleased to invite you to its first webinar: Towards the implementation of the International Code of Conduct for the Sustainable Use and Management of Fertilizers (Fertilizer Code). The Webinar will be held on line on the 19 May 2020 from 2 to 3pm CEST.
The objectives of the webinar are to:
Disseminate the Fertilizer Code and its purpose and objectives.
Discuss about the implementation modalities of the Fertilizer Code.
Provide an opportunity for different stakeholders to express their views regarding the Fertilizer Code.
The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) hosted by the FAO Land and Water Division invites you to its first webinar on mainstreaming Gender in Water Scarcity in Agriculture under the title: WATER SCARCITY, ABUNDANCE OF WOMEN?
FAO, in collaboration with the Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), a WASAG Partner, will share HOW WOMEN CAN PLAY A BETTER ROLE IN MANAGING WATER SCARCITY IN AGRICULTURE.
Registration is now open. Please register in advance for this webinar here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
A detailed program is available here.
The event is the third of a series of the initiative on “Mediterranean Diet’s Principles for Agenda 2030”. This series started in September 2019 and will continue throughout 2020 with subsequent sessions designed to raise awareness on how the Mediterranean Diet principles can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, by exploring different related characteristics of the Mediterranean Diet and other traditional diets, such as biodiversity conservation, women’s empowerment, urban-rural linkages and food loss and waste management.
Mediterranean eating pattern implies sustainable agriculture, safeguarding of landscapes and has a low environmental footprint. The event will focus on the environmental sustainability of the...
Under FAO’s One Water One Health Initiative, FAO presents FLOWERED – an EU Horizon 2020 project results on Fluoride in water quality and food impacts.
The meeting will be held on 10 December 2019 from 9.00 to 12.00 in FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
MEETING AGENDA:
9.00-9.08 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction to FAO One Water One Health Initiative, Sasha Koo-Oshima, Deputy Director, FAO Land and Water Division
9.08-9.20 a.m.
Presentation of Horizon 2020 de-FLuoridation technologies for improving quality of water and agro-animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of adaptation to climate change project (FLOWERED), Giorgio Ghiglieri, H2020 Project Coordinator FLOWERED, Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of...