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As you are aware, on May 25th the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, which enforced one set of data protection rules for all companies and organizations operating in the EU, wherever they are based.
If your institution is in Europe and conducts climate-relevant agricultural research, you may be interested in having it featured in a knowledge base of European institutional capacities and activities in climate-relevant agricultural research and innovation, which the European Union (EU) initiative called DeSIRA is building.
The deadline for the first release of the knowledge base is 31 July 2018.
CABI is helping Pakistan’s cotton industry to reduce losses of around $350m a year through poor production, transport and storage practices by training thousands of farmers and workers as part of the Better Cotton Initiative.
Cotton is Pakistan’s largest industrial sector and has played an important role in the economic development of the country and remains a key livelihood source for more than one million farmers.
Over 600 participants from science, politics, business and civil society from over 50 countries gathered at the fifth EAT Stockholm Food Forum.
The 2018 EAT Stockholm Food Forum explored a range of solutions available for achieving healthy and sustainable diets for a growing global population. It confronted some of the hard questions head on, such as how to feed the world with zero land expansion and ocean depletion, or the benefits of processed foods and clean meat.
The IYFF+ 10 World Coordination Committee (WCC) launches a new study that analyzes and highlights the common and global challenges faced by rural youth from all 5 continents.
