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Informal settlements and access to data in the time of COVID: a case for sharing data for decision making

22 October 2020
Online
United States

 

The spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage. 

 

 

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Land Portal Foundation

CFS High-Level Special Event on Food Security and Nutrition

13 October 2020 - 15 October 2020
Online

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will organize a High-Level Virtual Special Event on Food Security and Nutrition, 13 - 15 October 2020. The session, in lieu of CFS 47 which has been rescheduled to 8 - 12 February 2021 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, will seek to keep food security and nutrition front and centre on the global sustainable development agenda.

FAO, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

Building Back Better: Confronting the Impact of COVID-19 on Land Tenure, Food Security and Nutrition

13 October 2020
Online
United States

Partners Event on coordinating a Covid-19 response while monitoring the effect on governance of tenure and determining how to build back better

 

Land Portal Foundation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Welthungerhilfe
Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
International Land Coalition
International Fund for Agricultural Development

Use of semantics applied to food and agricultural data innovation systems as a key step to achieving the SDGs

12 October 2020 - 21 October 2020
Online
United States

FAO produces and synthesizes a wealth of information data across all the sectors to help eradicate poverty, eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable, reduce rural poverty, enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, and increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises. These information and data are in text, statistical, graphic and map formats that are accessible through a wide number of FAO Knowledge Platforms.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Land Portal Foundation

2020 Vision: Reflections on a Quarter Century of Metadata

23 September 2020
Online

Challenges finding information in food and agriculture on the Web: what can we do better?

Wednesday, 23 September
(2020-09-23)
15:00 - 16:30 UTC

Panelists will be from FAO, CGIAR, Land Portal Foundation, USDA and Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences.

Land Portal Foundation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Food Policy Research Institute

Fixing the Business of Food: A Critical Cross-Sector Dialogue to Re-Strategize Food Businesses

22 September 2020

The Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN), the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), the Santa Chiara Lab – University of Siena (SCL) and the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment (CCSI) invite you to join us on September 22nd, 2020 1:00-3:00pm EST / 7:00-9:00pm CEST for the online event of Fixing the Business of Food. 

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

COVID-19, Regulatory Rollback and the ‘Green Recovery’: Indigenous Peoples Raise Their Voices

17 September 2020
Online

As COVID-19 has hobbled governments around the world, environmental protections have diminished or disappeared altogether, leaving the door wide open for abuse, corruption, land grabs. Indigenous peoples and their territories are prime targets to pillage during this vulnerable period.

Ford Foundation
Land Portal Foundation
The Tenure Facility
Thomson Reuters Foundation

COVID-19, Biodiversity and Climate Change: Indigenous Peoples Defining the Path Forward

10 September 2020
Online

Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage more than half of the world´s land. These biodiverse ancestral lands are vital to the people who steward them and the planet we all share. But governments only recognize indigenous and community legal ownership of 10 percent of the world´s lands.  Secure tenure is essential for safeguarding the existing forests against external forces. This is specifically true for forests managed by Indigenous Peoples, where much of the world’s carbon is stored.

Ford Foundation
Land Portal Foundation
The Tenure Facility
Thomson Reuters Foundation