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SUMMARY:AGRF Summit 2021: Pathways to Recovery and Resilient Food Systems
DESCRIPTION:The eleventh Annual Summit of the AGRF\, which brings together thousands of delegates from governments\, the civil society\, the private sector\, research community\, and development partners will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021 and will be co-hosted by the Government of Kenya and the AGRF Partners Group. Events begin on Monday\, September 6. \n2021 is a critical year for recovery and food system transformation. This year’s AGRF Summit will explore the pathways and actions needed to accelerate this process and steer the continent towards food systems that: deliver sufficient and nutritious food\, do not impact the environment negatively and create sustainable\, dignified jobs\, and shared prosperity for Africa. \nThe Summit aims to deliver the following outcomes: \n\nArticulate an African vision on inclusive agricultural transformation\nReflect on emerging coalitions\nIdentify priority country-level areas for support and intervention\nComplement public commitments with commitments from other stakeholders\nCatalyze an action agenda towards the UN Food Systems Summit\n\nClick here for further information and registration requirements.
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/agrf-summit-2021-pathways-to-recovery-and-resilient-food-systems/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211001
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SUMMARY:Advocating For Ecosystems and WASH: A Blended Learning Course - Call for Registration
DESCRIPTION:Course Dates: September 13-30\, 2021\nNumber spaces available: 15\nCourse registration form: https://forms.gle/fjEt12LykoZrjkfs6\n\nAdvocacy plays an important role in creating and sustaining momentum for progress on conservation and human health policies. While multi-sectoral initiatives have been gaining attention in recent years\, there are still many policy platforms that fail to recognize the critical links between human and ecosystem health. This includes a comprehensive water policy that links freshwater ecosystem conservation with water\, sanitation\, and hygiene (WASH) planning and infrastructure maintenance.\n\nIn 2020\, the African Biodiversity Collaborative Group\, Conservation International\, and IRC launched the Freshwater Conservation and WASH Advocacy Strategy Workshop Facilitator’s Guide. In addition\, IRC launched WASH Systems Academy online\, virtual course Advocacy for Universal WASH Services. These two resources combined inspired the creation of a blended learning course that combines facilitated virtual instruction with self-guided activities\, group discussions\, and feedback labs to build the capacity of individuals working on WASH and ecosystems implementing programs.\n\nThis course lays out steps for conservation\, health\, and development practitioners to develop an advocacy strategy to design messaging and activities to urge donors\, policymakers\, and colleagues of the need to unite and join forces for conservation and health. Advocacy is a critical step in enabling integrated freshwater conservation-WASH management and must be closely tied to ongoing stakeholder engagement and field implementation of freshwater management strategies. Click here to listen to a webinar recording that gives an overview of the course.\n\nThis is an application/expression of interest form for the upcoming blended learning course Advocating for Ecosystems and WASH which will take place September 13-30\, 2021.\n\nTo apply for one of the 15 places in the course\, kindly use this application form: https://forms.gle/fjEt12LykoZrjkfs6 \n\nApplications will be reviewed\, and spaces confirmed on a first-come-first-served basis.\n\nContact Information\nPlease contact Colleen Sorto (csorto@conservation.org) or Elynn Walter (walter@ircwash.org) with any questions.
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/advocating-for-ecosystems-and-wash-a-blended-learning-course-call-for-registration/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Webinars,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T133000
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SUMMARY:Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar series 2nd Round\, 2021 on “Solutions Using Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approaches”
DESCRIPTION:The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is a useful framework for addressing complex transdisciplinary natural resource and environmental challenges in integrated\, innovative ways. This webinar series explores using and operationalizing WEF nexus approaches for finding solutions to these challenges. The series focuses on examples and solutions by linking and using WEF nexus approaches to timely interventions\, technologies\, and issues of importance\, especially in the context of COVID-19 and climate change. \n\n\n\nThis webinar series is organized by FAO & WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative\, WE4F\, GIZ Nexus Dialogues\, and SEI. \n\n\n\nSession 1: Disaster resilience and risk in the context on Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from Africa \nTuesday\, September 14\, 2021 | 13:30 – 15:00 Register Now! \nA detailed description of session 1 is available here! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\nSession 2: Cooperation across borders and sectors: Experiences from the SADC region on institutionalizing the WEF nexus approach \n\n\n\n\n\n \nTuesday\, October 19\, 2021 | 13:30 – 15:00 Register Now! \nA detailed description of session 2 is available here! \n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nSession 3: Sustainable electricity production by integrated food\, energy\, and water systems: opportunities and challenges \n\n\n\n\n\n \nTuesday\, November 16\, 2021 | 13:30 – 15:00 Register Now! \nA detailed description of session 3 is available here! \n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \nSession 4: Beyond traditional financing models for smallholders and other end-users in the water-energy-food nexus: challenges and innovative solutions \nTuesday\, December 14\, 2021 | 13:30 – 15:00 Register Now! \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \nA detailed description of session 4 is available here! \n  \n\n\n\nThis webinar series is supported by the regional project\, “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Water Efficiency/Productivity and Water Sustainability in NENA countries” (WEPS-NENA) under the FAO-led Regional Water Scarcity Initiative (WSI). \n\n\n\nEmail: RNE-WEPS-NENA@fao.org; Website: http://www.fao.org/in-action/water-efficiency-nena/webinars/nexus-webinars/en/ \n\n\n\nFor more information about the Water-Energy-Food Nexus 2nd Round Webinar series organizations: WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative wefnexus.org – Water and Energy for Food https://we4f.org GIZ Nexus Dialogues https://www.water-energy-food.org/resources/fact-sheet-nexus-regional-dialogues-programme-phase-ii\, and Stockholm Environment Institute https://www.sei.org/ \n\n 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/water-energy-food-nexus-webinar-series-2nd-round-2021-on-solutions-using-water-energy-food-nexus-approaches/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Webinars,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210923T160000
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Futures speaker series
DESCRIPTION:About the series: \nThe Sustainable Futures speaker series stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration around issues related to energy\, the environment\, and society. These lectures are sponsored by the Schatz Center\, the Environment & Community graduate program\, and the College of Arts\, Humanities & Social Sciences at Humboldt State. View our list of previous talks and available recordings below. To learn about other webinars from the Schatz Center\, visit schatzcenter.org/events/. \nHow to attend? \nWe’re holding the Fall 2021 Sustainable Futures Speaker Series online via webinar. Each lecture is streamed via Zoom\, and will be followed by a Q&A discussion period. All events are free and open to the public\, and live captioning is provided for all talks. To request additional support\, please contact info@schatzcenter.org or call 707-826-4345 as early as possible before an event. \nFall 2021: \nDownload the fall 2021 series flyer \nRegistration is required for all series. Click here for the detailed information.
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/sustainable-futures-speaker-series/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210930
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SUMMARY:2021 Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus Science Advances Conference
DESCRIPTION:Delivery type: Online from Nicosia (Cyprus) \n \nBackground: \nLiving within the budget of Nature requires reviewing the supply chains that nourish Mediterranean societies and economies. Yet\, such a transformation of the rules of the game is still far from commonly accepted\, especially when the proposed changes impinge on people’s lifestyle and challenge the current economic models. Increasing demand of water\, energy and food due to population growth and urbanization aggravated by unprecedented extreme weather and climate conditions\, are likely to undermine future livelihoods in the region\, ultimately leading to increased insecurity\, migration and possible local conflicts. The Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus is the system at the intersection of economic\, health and ecological interests where the confrontation of diverse practices of market\, governance\, culture and knowledge take place. It follows that achieving sustainability\, reducing inequality\, promoting cooperation and restraining conflicts and migration flows in the Mediterranean region require the concurrent implementation of interconnected targets\, many of which are embodied in the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). \nAnswering the broad range of questions encompassed by the WEFE Nexus concept is a challenging process at regional and national level. Evidence of benefits for business and communities of a transformative change on how WEFE resources are managed has so far failed to elicit significant changes in behaviour. While people tend to agree on distant targets\, acceptance of short-term actions is more difficult. In order to make a more convincing case for change\, we need to fill the gap in the debate between experts and non-experts. \nA science-driven approach to solving this problem should move beyond biophysical considerations and help design operational targets that reflect the predominant societal values and interests in the Mediterranean region. This requires broadening the toolkit with which experts approach the WEFE Nexus to provide clear demonstrations of the proposed solutions to policy designers. Learning from best practices worldwide can help convince social actors and decision-makers to adapt their thinking and behaviour. It is not the role of scientists to shape policies\, since operational targets must be participatory\, socio-political choices. But by providing evidence-based assessments on the benefits and trade-offs between the different elements of the Nexus\, science can help inform the debate and provide a menu of possible solutions that societies in the Mediterranean can adapt to their own needs. Multi-disciplinary partnerships are therefore essential to tackle such cross-sectoral challenges. \nDelivering Conference content: \nThere are no purely sectoral solutions to the sustainable management of Water\, Energy\, Food and Ecosystem resources in the Mediterranean region. Moreover\, as the COVID 19 pandemic and the migration flows in some parts of the region are dramatically showing\, a transformation of our current thinking and approaches is no longer an option\, but a necessity. The key concept of the 2021 WEFE Nexus Science Advances Conference is “addressing interdependencies”. The Conference will analyse the role of science as driver of innovation and its interfacing with the policy and decision-making processes. It will recommend workable measures on how to integrate novel paths in the research and planning of WEFE supply chains through a collaborative response across the Mediterranean region. Participants in the Conference will be scientists and practitioners\, as well as social actors and decision makers from diverse WEFE sectors from the entire Mediterranean area\, all brought together with the following common objectives: \n\nSurvey new approaches and modes of practice that can be applied to inform decisions\, choose priorities and incentivize the cross-sectoral management of water\, energy\, food and ecosystem resources.\nPromote the collection and documentation of WEFE Nexus best practices in the Mediterranean region and incorporate lessons learned in hands-on guidance for the development of sustainable operational targets\, in line with the SDGs.\nElaborate on the role of a WEFE Nexus Community of Practice to stimulate cross organization collaboration and knowledge-sharing around demonstration projects in the Mediterranean region.\n\nThe Conference focuses on the Mediterranean dimension\, but it is of broad interest to participants from outside the region sharing the same interests and wishing to learn from the Mediterranean\nexperience. It is organized by the Joint Research Centre and the Directorate General Research and Innovation of the European Commission\, the UfM-Union for the Mediterranean\, the PRIMAPartnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area\, and the Cyprus Institute. The outcomes of the Conference will contribute to the objectives set out in the UfM Ministerial Declaration on Water\, to the UfM Water Agenda\, to the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of PRIMA and the actions proposed by the European Commission in the roadmap of the EU Green Deal. \nFormat: \nThe Conference will be held entirely online with successive high-level panel sessions and group work smoothly spread over three days. It will be highly interactive with discussions at the science-to-policy interface triggered by keynote speakers tasked to review the state-of-the-art in specific areas of the Nexus (Nexus Talks). Participants and panelists will be asked to provide inspiring evidence of mutually beneficial solutions based on the co-production of practical and scientific knowledge. Breakout Groups and poster sessions will offer opportunities for networking. \nAt the Conference\, the launch of the report “Gateway to the Future of the Mediterranean: Water\, Energy\, Food and Ecosystems” will provide examples for substantive discussions on sustainability (Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus in the Mediterranean – Seeking examples of best practices | EU Science Hub (europa.eu)). Furthermore\, the 2021 PRIMA WEFE Nexus Awards (instructions for application at https://prima-med.org/the-prima-wefe-nexus-contest-opensapply-by-15-june/) will be conferred during the Conference. \nRegistration: \nParticipants are requested to fill in the online registration form by following the instructions on the Conference website or by clicking here. The deadline for registration is 30th June 2021. \nBy submitting posters\, attendees are offered the opportunity to share their work and views on how science can address the challenge posed by the implementation of a WEFE Nexus approach.\nThe associated abstracts can be submitted as explained in the registration form. \nThe detail program agenda is available here. \nWEFE Breakouts sessions and zoom link available here. \n 
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/2021-water-energy-food-ecosystems-wefe-nexus-science-advances-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210927T140000
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SUMMARY:Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus: Operationalising solutions\, strengthening transboundary cooperation
DESCRIPTION:This is a side event on the WEFE nexus and transboundary collaboration ahead of the Ninth Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Water Convention\, on September 27. \nStories from practitioners and a panel discussion will illustrate field experience regarding the potentials in using the nexus approach to operationalize solutions for advancing transboundary cooperation and sustainable water resources management. The session is a side event organized as part of the Ninth Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention. \nDate and time: Monday\, 27 September\, 14:00-15:30 (CEST) \nClick here to register for the program.
URL:https://wefnexus.org/event/water-food-energy-ecosystems-nexus-operationalising-solutions-strengthening-transboundary-cooperation/
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