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You could benefit from up to USD 80,000 funding and exchange germplasm, innovative knowledge, and technology with counterparts at Embrapa, Brazil, learning from each other's approaches to increase agricultural productivity. Pre-proposals are due to the Africa--Brazil Marketplace (http://www.mktplace.org) by 28th February 2013 and require only short two page project descriptions."

"Thanks to Abudala Napuru from FAO for these photos showing training and development in commercial monosex tilapia production at Richard Toll, Senegal Nov 2012- Jan 2013"

"The report provides an assessment of prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. It predicts that expansion of agricultural production is likely to slow at least in the medium term with limited slower area expansion and slower productivity growth, but supply should keep pace with demand such that prices are expected to remain relatively high. In this context, it is anticipated that measures to reduce food loss and waste will be important in meeting rising demand and for increasing productivity. Agricultural trade is expected to increase and developing countries could benefit."

"Deadline: 31 July 2013 The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM: see www.ruforum.org) is keen to document case studies where institutions and individual actors could share their experiences of working downstream with farmers; what are some of the lessons and skill mix that universities would need to take into account in terms of strengthening their academic programmes to produce graduates with a blend of necessary skills and competences that will facilitate change processes at community level. Further, what institutional arrangements need to be addressed to more effectively reach smallholders to enable them improve their agricultural productivity and enterprises? "

The REDD+ Monitoring, and Measurement, Reporting and Verification workshop "Training the Trainers" will be held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast from 6-10 February 2017, and will cover Francophone Africa. The workshop is jointly organized by GFOI partners who include World Bank FCPF, FAO/UN-REDD, Wageningen University, and GOFC-GOLD. It is the last in the series of four regional workshops, and will be held in French. The aim of the workshop is to demonstrate the use available training materials and tools covering topics including designing and implementing a national forest inventory, calculating emissions from forest degradation, the use of remote sensing change-detection tools to for deforestation monitoring, and generating IPCC compliant data. As part of the GOFC-GOLD partnership, START supported the training by facilitating the participation of two GOFC-GOLD Networks from Africa-the West Africa Regional Network (WARN) and the Miombo Land Use Land Change Network-in a similar training in September 2016. http://start.org/programs/gofc-gold For additional information on the program, please contact Senay Habtezion at shabtezion@start.org.

JICA launched the Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa recently at a side event of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD Ⅵ), held in Africa for the first time. The initiative, abbreviated as IFNA, aims to improve nutrition in Africa, with a particular focus on the region south of the Sahara Desert, which is said to have some 220 million undernourished people.It is also said that nearly 800 million people in the world are chronically undernourished. What's more, some 159 million children ages 5 and under reportedly are stunted.

"IIEP-UNESCO has wrapped up a full week at this year's annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) held in Vancouver, Canada from 6-10 March. A delegation of nine IIEP experts chaired five panels and participated in several other sessions on range of issues related to educational planning during crises, quality assurance in higher education, education financing and the role of learning assessment data in policy-making."

"Session 2 "Offre de l'enseignement supérieur à l'étranger : incitations, bénéfices et modèles économiques - analyse et retours d'expérience" du groupe de travail sur l'offre d'enseignement supérieur à l'étranger. Même si les processus d'internationalisation ne sont pas investis avec la même intensité par les établissements d'enseignement supérieur, ils deviennent de plus en plus un impératif. Cette internationalisation prend néanmoins des formes de plus en plus variées: mobilité des individus (étudiants, enseignants, chercheurs, cadres), mobilité physique (campus à l'étranger), flux d'offre (diplômes délocalisés, accords de co-diplomation, validation, franchise, etc.), internationalisation « at home » (internationalisation du recrutement des enseignants, des contenus, etc.). Dès lors, en quoi le déploiement de l'offre directement à l'étranger représente-t-il une valeur ajoutée en comparaison des autres formes de coopération/mobilités existantes ? L'offre délocalisée répond tout d'abord à un contexte favorable (transformation des mobilités au niveau global, enjeu d'adaptation au marché de l'éducation et à une demande émergente, contexte migratoire international plus contraint, raréfaction des ressources au niveau national, etc.). "

Vocational Education and Training (VET) is an important tool for a country's social and economic advancement. It offers an alternative educational path for youths and adults who wish to grow professionally, and at the same time provides qualified manpower needed across all sectors of the economy.

There is a general perception that youth in agriculture, perhaps like their counterparts in other fields, often find themselves on the fringes of regional and global agricultural development discourses due a number of factors - among which are limited access to resources and platforms that can aid their active participation. To address this concern, several governments and development organisations working with youth have, in the past years, developed strategies to engage youth in agriculture, encourage their participation in agriculture development discussions, and stimulate their energies towards contributing to finding solutions to some of agriculture's problems - especially in the developing world. The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has been one of the organisations at the forefront of this provision of support to youth in agriculture. Drawing on its Youth Strategy, which defines its engagement with young people in the field, CTA has made and continues to make significant contributions to the appeal of agriculture as a profession for youth and the development of young people engaged in the field.

"Young people from all corners of the world, aged 21 to 26, are invited by the European Commission to take part in the Young Leaders Programme at this year's European Development Days (EDD 2017). The event is Europe's leading forum on international cooperation and development and it will take place in Brussels on 7 and 8 June."

"The objectives of the project is to contribute to food security in areas of poverty in the region of the Caribbean and to strengthen management capacity at the University in terms of learning and practice in the field of food security in areas of poverty, and in this order, during the period of the project, the results obtained are considered of great importance for the final beneficiaries."

" GIZ, a German federal organisation, assists the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. at the recent European Development Days, Managing Director Dr Christoph Beier reflected on the changing landscape of development cooperation, and what he considers to be the priorities of the Post-2015 Agenda."

"Paris, 22 Jan 2014. Donor Platform logo The author of "Aid on the Edge of Chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex world" emphasised the urge to get out of the box, find new ways to look at and understand longstanding problems and to take risks in development programming. "

"The Platform's work plan 2014 was endorsed by board members at the beginning of February following a consultation process of about three months. Its outcomes are orientated to attain the revised Platform goal to promote effective policy and investment in rural development. Activities are planned under four pillars: strategic initiative, targeted advocacy with policy and decision makers, knowledge sharing, and networking and cooperation. Several thematic streams from post-2015 to nutrition, land and livestock etc. as well as input, reporting and co-organising from relevant international events will be implemented. Furthermore, Platform evaluation will help define the Platform's future and the design of its new Strategic Plan. The 2014 work plan is designed in a way general enough to provide for the flexibility a network needs, but also detailed enough to allow for a neat work process."

"On 10 July 2013, Mr Shyamal Majumdar, Head of Office of UNESCO-UNEVOC, has attended the iMove Network India in Dresden, Germany. Organized in cooperation with the Federation of Indian Commerce and Industry and the National Skill Development Corporation the event aimed at promoting the German-India collaboration in TVET. Mr Shyamal Majumdar delivered a keynote speech, in which he outlined Technical Vocational Education and Training from the international perspective and highlighted the importance of TVET in present times. Mr Majumdar urged for TVET to be transformed first and then scaled up in order to meet global demand. Furthermore, Mr Majumdar shared the key messages of the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on Youth and Skills, and the role of the UNEVOC Network in transforming TVET, addressing key challenges of quality, capacity and public-private partnership (PPP)."

"One year ago, over 700 experts in technical and vocational education and training, including 40 ministers and deputy ministers, attended the UNESCO Third International Congress on TVET in Shanghai, China. They came to Shanghai in order to discuss the transformation of TVET and set the international TVET agenda for the next five years. Since then, UNESCO has undertaken a number of steps to implement the key recommendations made to UNESCO at the congress, outlined in the Shanghai Consensus. To inform about the progress, the UNESCO TVET Section and UNESCO-UNEVOC have published the first issue of the 'Shanghai Update' newsletter. Shanghai Update (pdf) The newsletter will soon also be available in other languages on the UNESCO website"

"An Agribusiness Education Fair will be held at the World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya from 9th - 11th October 2013. The fair is being organized by the African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education in conjunction with the Forum For Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Pan African Agribusiness Consortium (PanAAC) and the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). The objective of the fair is to improve Agribusiness teaching and research through stronger linkages of Training institutions with Business and Private sector."

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"From 16 - 20 September, 2013, ADEA participated in the annual Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat Senior Officials and Education Ministers meeting held in Maputo, Mozambique. Ms. Angela Arnott, team leader from the ADEA Working Group on Education Management and Policy Support (WG EMPS) represented ADEA at the meeting. In addition to senior officials from SADC countries, there were also participants from the International Labour Organization (ILO), the African Union (AU), and UNESCO."