The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is organizing a virtual event named “Foresight processes to support sustainable food system transformations through agroecology”. Current global challenges put strong emphasis on the urgent need for a sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems. This transformation requires appropriate tools designed to make structural changes possible. […]

We celebrate World Soil Day on the 5th of December 2022. The topic of this year’s campaign “Soils: Where food begins” aims to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management. Check out the official event website: https://www.fao.org/world-soil-day/en/

The 8th International Conference on Deserts, Drylands and Desertification will take place in Beer-Sheva, Israel from the 27th of November to the 1st of December 2022. The conference will focus on the intersection of land and water and the impact of land degradation and drought on populations across the world. The conference program and registration link can be found […]

JOIN US TO CELEBRATE DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT DAY 2022! The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (DD-day 2022), established by the United Nations in 1994, promotes public awareness of international efforts to fight desertification, which is the loss of soil fertility and the resulting degradation of natural resources caused by human activities. This year’s […]

The fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will take place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022.  The COP15 theme, ‘Land. Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity’, is a call to action to ensure land, the lifeline on this planet, continues to benefit present and future […]