All Events
The Future Agricultures Consortium participates in many conferences and workshops as well co-hosts annual events to highlight key issues related to FAC work in Africa.
FARA is convening the 5th African Agricultural Science Week and its Annual General Meeting in Ouagadougou between 19-24 July, 2010.
The theme this year is Innovation in a Changing Global Environment.
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A major conference to help enhance food security in Africa and share lessons on best practices took place in Nairobi from 28 - 30 November 2009. 
From October to November 2009 The Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) in partnership with the Salzburg Global Seminar (SGS) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), conducted two international events on the theme of an “African Green Revolution” last year. In May 2008, FAC co-organised a high-level international conference: “Towards an African Green Revolution?” in Salzburg, Austria.
The conference presented a number of strategic recommendations to achieve a uniquely African "Green Revolution". As a follow up to that conference, FAC organised three national-level workshops with nearly 100 smallholder farmers in Kenya, Malawi and Ethiopia. The recent workshops tested the strategies proposed for a uniquely African Green Revolution and included discussions on agriculture research to provide farmer input for the March 2010 Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development – in Montpellier, France.
30 April - 2 May 2008 Toward a 'Green Revolution' in Africa?" is an Initiative of the Salzburg Global Seminar, the Institute of Development Studies and the Future Agricultures Consortium. The Initiative, through a series of interconnected events, seeks to:
