Upcoming events around the world
Climate Ride NYC-DC 2012
Climate Ride will return for its fourth year this May 19-23, 2012, and will once again see hundreds of cyclists pedal beautiful country roads 300 miles from New York City to Washington, DC to raise awareness of sustainability, renewable energy climate issues and bicycle advocacy.
Green week 2012
The 12th edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, will take place from 22 to 25 May 2012 in Brussels. This year's theme is "Water".
Provocation Seminar Series: Rural youth today, farmers tomorrow?
A rising number of rural youth are turning their back on small-scale agriculture. Limited access to markets, assets, finance and infrastructure in rural areas, coupled with rapid growth and opportunities in urban areas increasingly makes cities the obvious choice in the search for a better life. Yet small-scale farming remains a key source of livelihood and employment and will be critical to future food security. Engaging rural youth in agriculture is key in an era of rapid rural change. But are today's policies and institutions up to the task?
Can mobile phones improve agricultural productivity, resilience and food security?
Seminar to assess the future potential of mobile technology in agriculture.
Grassroots science - Permaculture: reconnecting people soil and food
Permaculture has emerged as a response to industrial agriculture and food.
Global Land Grabbing Colloquium
Global land grabbing: towards broader and deeper theoretical and empirical perspectives
Agriculture and Rural Development Day at Rio+20
This event is being organised during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), on the theme "Lessons in Sustainable Landscapes and Livelihoods", and aims to ensure that the vision for a sustainable green economy includes clear steps for building a sustainable food system.
Rio+20
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
Agriculture Action Camp: "Food back in our own hands"
Do you want to know more about the struggle against GMOs and industrial farming that is dominated by big companies? Do you want to organize actions against the meat industry and the imports of animal feed? But you are also interested in producing your own food on a sustainable, climate neutral, autonomous and social way? Do you want to know more about a direct and local farmer-consumer cooperation? Not afraid of getting your hands dirty in a workshop? Then mark your agendas and make sure to keep July 5-10 free!
World Water Week 2012
Each year the World Water Week addresses a particular theme to enable a deeper examination of a specific water-related topic. While not all events during the week relate to the overall theme, the workshops driven by the Scientific Programme Committee and many seminars and side events do focus on various aspects of the theme.
1st Regional Conference on Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Utilization 2012 (RAC-1)
RAC-1 will provide opportunities for agrobiodiversity experts in the region to highlight and assess the role of agrobiodiversity and identify sustainable means of utilising the region's vast agrobiodiversity to its fullest potential.
Global land grabbing II
The Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is organizing a second international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 17-19 October 2012 at the Africana Studies Center at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. The event will be co-organized and hosted by the Department of Development Sociology.
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