The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing the free event on “The contribution of the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)” that will take place on 22 of November 2022 at from 14:30 to 16:00 CET. Objectives: Provide an overview of TAPE: the tool; goals; frameworks; database and development process; […]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is organizing a virtual event named “Foresight processes to support sustainable food system transformations through agroecology”. Current global challenges put strong emphasis on the urgent need for a sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems. This transformation requires appropriate tools designed to make structural changes possible. […]

We celebrate World Soil Day on the 5th of December 2022. The topic of this year’s campaign “Soils: Where food begins” aims to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management. The FAO is organising a World Soil Day Official Ceremony, which will take […]

The “4 per 1000” Initiative Day will be held in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) on November 16th, 2022.  Its theme will be “Healthy Soils for a Healthy Planet”. The event will be held in a hybrid version (face-to-face for those who can attend and online for those who cannot travel). If you are interested in participating, please register on […]

The 8th International Conference on Deserts, Drylands and Desertification will take place in Beer-Sheva, Israel from the 27th of November to the 1st of December 2022. The conference will focus on the intersection of land and water and the impact of land degradation and drought on populations across the world. The conference program and registration link […]

Desertification & Drought Day 2022
Sassari, 17 June 2022

The fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will take place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. DNI will organise a side event “How to develop the next generation scientists in desertification and land degradation?“. The event is scheduled to take place […]

  GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOILS FOR NUTRITION (GSOIL4N) 26-29 July 2022 | VIRTUAL MEETING Food starts with soils, and with less than ten years to go until 2030 Agenda – the deadline to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a call for urgent attention to the factors and forces driving the […]

The fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will take place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. The COP15 theme, ‘Land. Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity’, is a call to action to ensure land, the lifeline on this planet, continues to benefit present […]

Youth leadership: thriving through land-based actions
16 december 2021 at 3pmCET

World Soil Day (WSD) is held annually on 5 December as a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and advocating for the sustainable management of soil resources. World Soil Day 2021 (#WorldSoilDay) and its campaign “Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity” aims to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy […]

The 2021 Silk Road International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education Research and Application will be held in October 29-30, 2021. The topic of the conference will be soil and water conservation and sustainable land management. The aim is to explore ways to improve soil and water conservation and promote sustainable land […]

The Yangling International Agri-Science Forum will be held in October 22 to 24, 2021. The conference will focus on the following topics: ecological management, environment protection, rural development, urban-rural relationship. The aim is to explore and promote ways to improve the natural, economic and social conditions of rural areas. The conference will be held online and has no register fee. Experts are encouraged to prepare a video and share it during the conference.

The Global Assessment of Soil Pollution report and its Summary for Policy makers will be launched via Zoom on 4th June 2021 at 13:30-15:30 CEST (GMT+2). It will make a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the threats posed by soil pollution and to aligning several international policy frameworks, including the SDGs and multilateral environmental […]

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is organising a webinar on one of the key questions for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: What do we need to do to move $100 billion into restoring Africa’s restoration movement by 2030? The event will take place on June 1 2021 (Timezones: 9:00 AM EST | 3:00 PM CET […]

As was said in CSOs statement on LDN Fund “The post-COVID recovery requests humanity to adopt a more robust alliance and solidarity at global, regional, national, and local levels to avoid, manage, and reverse land degradation and restore natural ecosystems. Providing an approach to achieve LDN in the full context of the SDGs has become […]

Climate Exp0 is the first conference from the COP26 Universities Network and the Italian University Network for Sustainable Development (RUS), working together to raise ambition for tangible outcomes from the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). It will be held online from 17 to 21 May 2021. Climate Exp0 will be structured around 5 key themes across the […]

As the National Coordinator and Chair of the T20 Italy, the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) is organising a series of 3 High-Level Forums under the claim “The Future  is  Now: People, Planet, Prosperity”.  The Forums are intended to promote debates on key global challenges and they will engage top representatives from the political […]

Working Group III (WG III) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) are organising an interactive online event that is open to the public: Climate change and our future | driving the transition. The event will take place on 28 April 2021 at […]

The “4 per 1000” Initiative is organising a virtual fair in the framework of the EU Green Week.   Greenhouse gases (GHG) are part of the natural carbon and nitrogen cycles. Human industrial activities have led to excessive concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, turning them into pollutants. The fair is opportunity to showcase […]