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Date: 18 Sep 2015 - 19 Sep 2015 The world faces a series of challenges that engage the food studies community. On the one hand, some regions of the world are increasingly plagued by food insecurity, hunger, and famine. On the other, questions about the environmental and economic sustainability of traditional input-heavy agriculture continue to encourage scholars and practitioners to think in terms of a return to local or community-based agriculture. Lieu: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA United States See map: Google Maps Appel à contribution: Call for proposal: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD STUDIES

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"The Hindu Business Line-. There are over 80 web sites and portals ran by Governments providing information to farmers on soil, plant protection, diseases, weather forecast, fertiliser use and farm and crop management. The number could be much more in the private sector. All this is likely to confuse the farmer. To tackle this, the Union Government has come up with the idea of a unified portal, to provide information on all farming needs. The portal www.farmer.gov.in, is not fully live yet. The basic version integrates the convergence technologies to offer latest information to farmers, instead of uploading dated information. "Compare this with the number of agri-climatic zones in the country. They are just 23. When they open the portal, the farmers see the Indian map. Depending on their location, they can select a State and the block they belong to," said Sanjeev Gupta, Joint Secretary of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of India. "

(12 septembre 2014) - La Fondation européenne pour l'amélioration des conditions de vie et de travail (Eurofound) a publié un rapport téléchargeable en ligne intitulé «Mapping youth transitions in Europe» (Suivi des transitions des jeunes en Europe).

Inter-réseaux a réalisé pour la coopération suisse (DDC) un schéma représentant les acteurs impliqués directement ou indirectement dans la politique agricole de la CEDEAO. En passant la souris sur les acteurs, une brève présentation de ces acteurs ainsi que leur rôle dans l'Ecowap apparaît.

"TVET experts from the European Union met in Brussels on 17 November to discuss the preliminary findings of a study on the Internationalization of TVET in EU countries, and the European Commission's role in this. The purpose of the study is to map policies and practices from the EU, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) member states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), Australia and five International Organizations that support international cooperation in TVET, including UNESCO. A set of recommendations for future actions at the European and national levels will be included in the study's final report. UNESCO was represented at the meeting by Katerina Ananiadou, programme specialist at UNESCO-UNEVOC. The study was commissioned by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture and carried out by International http://www.icfi.com. The Commission and the contractors gathered feedback on the preliminary findings from national and international experts. Their feedback will be incorporated in the final version of the study, which is due to be published in December 2014."

Des pays comme le Sénégal devront miser sur l'agroalimentaire pour les années à venir. C'est la conviction exprimée, hier, à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop, par Guillaume Garot, ministre français délégué auprès du ministre de l'Agriculture, de l'Agroalimentaire et de la Forêt, chargé de l'Agroalimentaire. Le Sénégal comme la France doivent, pour les années à venir, miser sur l'agroalimentaire