Work Package 8 Workshop Online | January 2023

This meeting is called by icipe, the Work Package 8 leaders, in conjunction with the UPSCALE project coordinator Prof. Emily Poppenborg. The main purpose of the workshop is to review the status, track progress, learning and plan for effective implementation and coordination of Work Package 8 activities across all the 5 UPSCALE sites in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda.

UPSCALE General Assembly 2023

Members of the EU-funded UPSCALE project studying push-pull cropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa will gather for their third general assembly.

Africa Agribusiness and Science Week

Durban Durban, South Africa

The Africa Agribusiness and Science Week (AASW) in April 2023 is the continent’s MUST-ATTEND Science-to-Business platform for SPONSORS AND OR EXHIBITORS as it provides a one-stop platform to develop relations, exchange knowledge and assess opportunities

Africa’s Food Systems Forum 2023 Summit

Africa's Food Systems Forum 2023 Summit’s theme, “Recover, Regenerate, Act: Africa’s Solutions to Food Systems Transformation,” focuses on building back better food systems and food sovereignty with youth and women at the center. The theme identifies three steps needed to achieve this transformation: Recovery, Regenerate, and Act.

7th ACAE Conference & 60th AEASA Annual Conference

The 7th African Conference of Agricultural Economists & 60th Annual AEASA Conference, set to take place in September 2023 in Durban, South Africa, will focus on the theme "Through Crisis: Building Resilient Agri-food Systems in Africa".

Agri4D conference

2023 Agri4D conference “Building resilient food systems in uncertain times” is open to call for abstracts and concept notes. The submission deadline is the 8th of May 2023, and the conference will be held online from the 26th to the 28th of September 2023. 

High-Level Dialogue on Inclusive Seed Sector Development for Agricultural Transformation in Africa

The primary aim or purpose of the High-Level Dialogue is to bring together a panel of renowned experts and key stakeholders in the African seed sector to present, discuss and share ideas with the view to create greater awareness and impart informed knowledge and better understanding about inclusive seed sector development leading to an in-depth conference on this theme in 2024.