To commemorate World Fish Migration Day, a panel discussion was held in Bago, Myanmar and virtually on Zoom, to raise awareness on the importance of free-flowing rivers for productive fisheries with decision makers, civic society organizations and development organizations within Myanmar.
Date: Saturday, 24 October 2020
Time: 10:00 AM -12:00 PM (GMT+6.3) / 11:30 AM -13:30 PM (UTC+8)
The 2019 Big Data in Agriculture Convention will kick-off this year with the theme TRUST: Humans, Machines & Ecosystems from 16 to 18 October 2019. The three-course day will be taking place at The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.
FAO hosted the Thirty-fourth Session of the Committee (COFI34), a virtual dialogue to examine fisheries and aquaculture governance and development.
Date: Monday-Friday, 1-5 February 2021
Time: 16:30 (UTC+8)
WorldFish 80th Board of Trustees meeting held from 15 to 18 November 2019 at Bioversity headquarters, Rome, Italy. The Board’s primary mission is the setting of policy ensuring the achievement of the Center’s stated goals and objectives within the mandate of the CGIAR System as well as to ensure both of the scientific excellence of the Center and the relevance of the Center’s work for its partners and beneficiaries.
The 2018 International Conference on River Connectivity (Fish Passage 2018), incorporating the First International Symposium on Hydropower and Fish Management, will bring together Northern and Southern Hemisphere fish passage researchers and practitioners to exchange findings and experiences on fish passage issues.
Further to the CGIAR System Statement which condemns and rejects racism, a webinar was opened to all staff on Combating Racism in the Workplace as part of the CGIAR efforts to raise awareness, learning and capacity on issues relating to Gender, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace.
Agricultural development can be slow and uneven, often not reaching the people who are most vulnerable and in pockets of deep, entrenched poverty. It is further hindered by climate change, which disproportionally affects agriculture and threatens the achievement of SDG targets on food security and poverty.
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Biodiversity Digital Conference was a two-day event with the theme ‘One World – One Health’ to spotlight ecosystem restoration and contribute to the next global Biodiversity roadmap, advancing the global drive to ‘build back better’.
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In 2020, World Rivers Day was a celebration of the world's waterways. It highlighted the many values of rivers and strives to increase public awareness and hopefully encouraged the improved stewardship of rivers around the world. Rivers in every country face an array of threats, and only our active involvement ensured their health in the years ahead.
A hybrid conference exploring policy, innovations and investment opportunities in aquaculture to advance food and sustainable development goals
Date: Wednesday-Saturday, 22-25 September 2021