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10 November 2020 to 24 November 2020
Global
NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) has opened registration for a new open, online webinar series: Satellite Remote Sensing for Urban Heat Islands.
5 November 2020 to 19 November 2020
Location
Online
United States
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US
Global
NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) has opened registration for a new open, online webinar series: Remote Sensing for Mangroves in Support of the UN Sustainable Development
28 October 2020
Location
Online
United States
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US
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Global
All the UN member states have committed to achieve the Sustainable Development Targets by 2030. However, there is a clear gap between what is being committed and the delivery of the commitments. For example, in 2020 National Voluntary Reports only seven countries reported on specific land targets. No country reported on the all three key land targets.
Organizers:
Land Portal Foundation
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
International Land Coalition
26 October 2020
Location
Online
United States
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US
Global
All the UN member states have committed to achieve the Sustainable Development Targets by 2030. However, there is a clear gap between what is being committed and the delivery of the commitments. For example, in 2020 National Voluntary Reports only seven countries reported on specific land targets. No country reported on the all three key land targets.
Organizers:
Land Portal Foundation
International Land Coalition
Landesa - Rural Development Institute
22 October 2020
Location
Online
United States
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US
South Africa
Global
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.
Organizers:
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Land Portal Foundation
13 October 2020
Location
Online
United States
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US
Global
Partners Event on coordinating a Covid-19 response while monitoring the effect on governance of tenure and determining how to build back better
Organizers:
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 (IFAD)
13 October 2020 to 15 October 2020
Location
Online
XX
Global
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.
Organizers:
FAO, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
12 October 2020 to 21 October 2020
Location
Online
United States
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US
Global
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.
Organizers:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Land Portal Foundation
1 October 2020
Location
Online
South Africa
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ZA
Southern Africa
South Africa
Organizers:
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Land Portal Foundation
28 September 2020
Latin America and the Caribbean
La ILC ALC organiza del 13 al 16 de octubre el XI Foro de la Tierra ALC “Desigualdad en América Latina y el Caribe: impacto y propuestas para la Gobernanza de la Tierra”.
24 September 2020
Location
Online
XX
Middle Africa
Congo
Western Africa
Ghana
Global
Thursday 24 September 2020 | 11:00am – 12:00pm BST | Via Zoom
Organizers:
ClientEarth
23 September 2020
Location
Online
XX
Global
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.
Organizers:
Land Portal Foundation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Food Policy Research Institute