Today, we take our food for granted, and that is one of our biggest mistakes. It turns out, food production is highly depreciated. The people who still choose to do a lot of the work themselves find it difficult to make a living. While we enjoy a good meal, there has been a disproportionate emphasis put on things such as food markets and even restaurants. Having a single point of
Responding to the challenges of climate change in Bangladesh, a project called IRR-CCRIP (Implementation of Rural Radio Initiatives under the Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project) is now being implemented. The project was formulated with the assistance of FAO ComDev team to address the need for a communication plan in support of resilient livelihoods, using rural radio as the core medium.
From April 28 to May 1, 2015 Wageningen University in the Netherlands will host the 22nd European Seminar on Extension and Education (ESEE). The four-day event is organized in conjunction with the conference of the Association for the International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) and will bring together the majority of scholars from around the world who work in the field of agricultural extension and rural development communication.
World Water Day on 22 March every year is a day to celebrate water–a day when members of the global population who suffer from water related issues make a difference; and a day to prepare for how we manage water in the future because we all need water. This 2015, the theme is Water and Sustainable Development.
The call for proposals on Scaling up Food Security and Nutrition Innovations by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada is open until March 27, 2015. With a strong focus on taking effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, this call will fund research-for-development projects submitted by strong partnerships between research, development, private sector and other business-oriented organizations from Canada and from
The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) in cooperation with UNESCO and the French embassy in the Philippines is now accepting abstracts for ICT-Asia until April 15, 2015.
Are you making the difference in addressing climate change? The UN Climate Change Secretariat is looking for successful projects to become the Momentum for Change’s 2015 Lighthouse Activities. Applications are open to members of any organizations, communities, cities, businesses, governments and others taking concrete action on climate change
World Radio Day (13 February) is an occasion to celebrate radio as a medium and to promote access to information, and free, independent and pluralistic media. Listen to an interview to Mario Acunzo, FAO Communication for Development officer, talking about the importance of radio for the development of rural communities (in Spanish).
This year’s World Radio Day(13 February) celebrates “Radio and Youth”. To raise awareness on this important issue, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), have launched an online discussion aimed at exploring the role of radio and community media in the lives of rural people in West Africa.
Forum Media and Development will hold a symposium on Audience Research in Media Development: Is it Fo(r)ME? on November 5-7, 2014 in Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany. The FoME symposium presents and discusses examples where audience research has been used to enhance the performance of media houses and development programmes, and it aims to stimulate the debate on how audience research capacities in developing countries can be strengthened.
