20.07.2020
2:00 pm
3:30 pm
GMT+2

Role of Farmer Organizations in Agri-Food Systems Innovation

Speakers:
Abdessalam Ould Ahmed, Stephanie Barrial, Antonella Cianciotta, Nora Haddad, Nora Osama, Saed Al Kharousi, Ahmed Sourani, Abdelmajid Ezzar
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Hosted by:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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About the webinar
FAO highlights the crucial role of farmer organizations in promoting innovative systems to overcome the challenges posed by COVID-19 in the agri-food sector.

In the context of COVID-19 outbreak, FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa (RNE) is organizing this Zoominar on Farmer organizations’ role in promoting innovation to increase food security, and sustainable rural development. Since the early spread of COVID-19, FAO underscored the crucial role of farmer organizations in increasing resilience and rethinking priorities of food security policies to keep food supply chains alive and to achieve the SDGs.

In this critical context, FAO is highlighting the merit of scaling up innovation in agriculture, including digitalization and e-commerce; producing more food, in a more sustainable way; safeguarding biodiversity and addressing environmental issues; and changing current business models, related to the food system.

Farmer organizations are playing an important role to improve access to input and output markets, access and management to natural resources and improve knowledge and information as well as advocate for policy change through engaged discussions in policy-making processes, in review of legislative frameworks; and enhancing resilience and food security by building capacities, developing agricultural information systems and generating data.

Speakers will address the following questions:

  1. What are your key achievements in introducing innovation in your region and engaging your community to adopt technologies?
  2. How you are facing the COVID 19 pandemic and what are your main challenges and needs to build resilience and to access to inputs, advise, market, etc.?
  3. What are your expectations from FAO and other international organizations in order to access to innovation for building resilience to shocks and improve livelihoods especially for the period post COVID 19?

HOW TO ATTEND

·       Only registered participants will attend, please find the registration link here

·       Please note that the session will start on time on 20 July 2020 at 14:00 – 15:30 (GMT +2)

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Focus Region:
Middle East & North Africa
Focus Topic:
Institutions / Organizations
Gender / Youth / Social Inclusion
Other
About the speakers

Abdessalam Ould Ahmed

Assistant Director General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa – FAO RNE

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Stephanie Barrial

Content Manager – World Rural Forum (WRF)

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Antonella Cianciotta

Technical Specialist – Farmers’ Organizations for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (FO4ACP); Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions (PMI) at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

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Nora Haddad

FAO Representative in Oman

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Nora Osama

Director of Planning and Programs Department, Arab Women Organization (AWO)

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Saed Al Kharousi

President, Omani Farmer Association

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Ahmed Sourani

Co-Founder & General Coordinator, Gaza Urban & Peri-urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)

His expertise focuses on Organizational Development, Policy change and networking for agricultural resilient development; Participatory Learning and Action Research through the utilization of the Participatory PM&E approach. Ahmed Sourani has a long experience with key local and international NGOs, and actively involved in key local/national, regional & global agricultural development spaces. He holds Masters Degree in Participation, Power & Social Change from the (IDS), University of Sussex, UK, a High Institute Certificate in Good Governance, Public Policies and Civil Society from the University of the Castilla La Mancha, Spain, High Professional Diploma in Management of NGOs from Bir-Zeit University and a Bachelor degree in English Literature from the Islamic University of Gaza.

Currently, Ahmed Sourani is the Co-Founder & General Coordinator of GUPAP, a multi-stakeholder space for policy influencing, networking & empowerment. Previously, he held several positions including Agro Policy and Institutional Development Advisor of OXFAM-Gaza, Agriculture Program Manager at the ICRC-Gaza, Advisor of External Relations & Cooperation of Agricultural Development Association (PARC) and Director of Business Service Center for Women’s Enterprises (IFAD/AIDOS/PARC Project).

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Abdelmajid Ezzar

President of The Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries (UTAP); Vice President of Pan-African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO), Bureau of Umnagri.

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