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Last month GFAR Secretariat put the spotlight on Partner in GFAR EcoAgriculture Partners, to shed light on how investment in landscapes can help to better track progress in innovating agri-food systems, towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more below!
Building on the 1st International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held in Rome in 2014, and the subsequent regional seminars organized in 2015 and 2016, FAO will host the 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology: Scaling Up agroecology to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from 3-5 April 2018 at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy.
GFAR themes 2013
The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), taking place in New York 12-23 March, is discussing innovative policies and practical solutions to the multiple challenges women face in rural areas.
GFAR themes 2013
In January, GFAR Chair Bongiwe Njobe and GFAR Vice-Chair Raffaele Maiorano met with leaders at FAO to discuss real, solid areas in which GFAR can complement FAO's many roles and where FAO's intergovernmental policy role can be informed by GFAR processes and actions.