What timeframes are acceptable for bioenergy systems to deliver climate benefits compared to fossil energy systems? How can these timeframes be determined (with a simple set of rules for a wide variety of settings)? The role for certification schemes, such as SBP, in guaranteeing climate benefits
Mycotoxin contamination is receiving considerable attention for several reasons. First and foremost, mycotoxins have a major impact on human and animal health, and this is particularly true in a number of African countries where awareness and control measures are limited or absent. Economically speaking, mycotoxin contamination impacts on food availability (quantities of food of appropriate quality) and may directly result in hunger and malnutrition of the population. Given stricter food safety regulations with regard to mycotoxin standards in developed countries, increased efforts in prevention of mycotoxins can benefit the health of the domestic population whilst also increasing export possibilities. Concerning the knowledge base, the necessary information with regard to public health significance, occurrence, prevention and control of mycotoxins is often missing. In addition, better mycotoxin contamination-related datab
“The COVID-19 crisis has created a moment where existing calls for agroecology acquire new relevance. Agroecology provides a path to reconstruct a post-COVID-19 agriculture, one that is able to avoid widespread disruptions of food supplies in the future by territorializing food production and consumption. There are five main areas in which agroecology can point the way to a new post-COVID-19 agriculture: overcoming the pesticide treadmill, enriching nature’s matrix, revitalizing small farms, creating alternative animal production systems and enhancing urban agriculture.”
Urban Development Network webinars. Six building blocks to sustainable urban development
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) carried out a one year global study “Strategies to invest in human capital in agriculture” to generate evidence about promising investments in farmers’ human capital.
Learn more about the development of a sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the South Baltic Region (SBR).
Sealogy, the European Exhibition on Blue Economy, is the first Italian trade fair entirely dedicated to the sea and its resources, conceived to become the international reference event for the Blue Economy sectors, where all actors of the supply chains actively contribute to sustainable development and innovation.
Urban Development Network webinars. Six building blocks to sustainable urban development
Climate & the Future of Food: Priority Actions for Systems Transformation.
Paper & Beyond is the annual event of the European Paper industry and its value chain, bringing together pulp and paper producers, paper and cardboard product manufacturers, technology suppliers, EU policy makers, researchers & scientists and press.
Urban Development Network webinars. Six building blocks to sustainable urban development
A team of experts has assessed the transport sector and its projected development up to 2030 and 2050 for a number of countries. The objective of the assessment was to quantify the role that renewable transport fuels play in decarbonising the road transport sector, and to provide insights to policy makers on how individual countries differ from one another, which options for decarbonisation they have, and best practice examples for successful policies. This webinar will present the main conclusions and recommendations of this work.
This seminar will describe the disruptive potentials of new local biorefineries to contribute to EU self-sufficiency with plant protein and new biobased products while supporting EU policies on environment and climate.
As part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero November 2020 Dialogues, this webinar aims to connect policymakers and non-Party actors from the climate community with food systems leaders and innovators. With a focus building momentum towards the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 and COP26, panellists and respondents will discuss key issues and explore potential opportunities for collective action.
The third Global Bioeconomy Summit #GBS2020 will take place fully virtual from 16 to 20 November 2020 with the support of the German government. Since the first summit in Berlin in 2015, the summits have established themselves as a unique format for global exchange on bioeconomy policy, governance and sustainable development.
The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization
The need for transformational change in global agri-food systems is now widely acknowledged. The concept of agroecology is more and more dominating the discourse about the future of agriculture. At the same time the steady growth of the organic market has a strong impact on the global development of standards and regulatory requirements. Alternative terms, such as regenerative agriculture, ecological organic agriculture and others approaches such as Zero Budget Natural Farming are being scaled-up significantly. These concepts have involved many actors who share the desire to “scale-up” transformational change initiatives to bring about resilient and sustainable agriculture and food systems.
The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) is a G20 initiative, officially launched in 2012, with a mandate to work towards bridging the capacity gap for agricultural innovation in the tropics. Its objective is to increase the coherence and effectiveness of capacity development interventions for agricultural innovation systems, so they can lead to sustainable change and impact at scale. TAP is supported by the European Union (EU) and its Secretariat is hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
