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This session introduces frontier technologies and innovative thinkers, demonstrates pathways to integrate new technologies in rural communities, and supports grassroots innovation and development. It is designed to project a long-term vision of the next generation of smallholder agriculture projects, looking ten to thirty years into the future.

The theme of the 42nd IFAD Governing Council is "Rural Innovation and Entrepreneurship" which are a key part of the IFAD11 Commitment to embrace a culture of results and innovation. With its specialised mandate of enabling rural transformation, IFAD has a pivotal role to play in creating the conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship to thrive in rural areas and improve poor people'…

The world is facing unprecedented global challenges that affect the sustainability of food and agriculture systems, and thus the livelihoods of millions of family farmers worldwide. These challenges pose serious threats to achieving the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger. More food will be needed to feed a growing population and, in order t…

On October 20th and 21st GACSA members and observers will meet at FAO headquarters in Rome for the Fifth GACSA Strategic Committee Meeting. The meeting will take place within the margins of the Committee on World Food Security’s plenary week. 

A two-day Dialogue on Climate Services and Food Security is organised at the premises of the World Food Programme in Rome, Italy to provide a platform for key stakeholders to identify strategic priorities for users of climate services within the food security and agriculture sector. Represented by Antonella Piccolella, CTA is…