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IFAP Events
2008
October 20-22: IFAP Latin America and Caribbean Committee President and Vice-President Consultations, Santiago de Chile (to be confirmed) October 27-30: Women Leadership Seminar Workshop for Asia, Armenia November 10: IFAP Executive Committee: i) meets Federated Farmers of New Zealand; ii) meets AusAID to plan a capacity building program in S.E. Asia, Canberra, Australia November 11-12: IFAP Executive Committee session, Canberra, Australia November 13: IFAP Executive Committee farm visit from Canberra, Australia December 1st week: IFAP Mediterranean Committee meeting, Cyprus (to be confirmed) 2009 March or April: Regional Workshop in Latin America about the Kyoto Protocol (place and date to be confirmed) May 27: IFAP Conference on “Climate Change: Farmers’ Solutions” May 28-29: IFAP Executive Committee, Copenhagen, Denmark October 21: Joint Farm visit of NA-EU Conference and IFAP Executive Committee, Niagara, Ontario, Canada October 22-23: IFAP Executive Committee, Niagara, Ontario, Canada 2010 May/June: 39th IFAP World Farmers’ Congress |
International and National Events involving IFAP in 2008
2008
UN International Year of Planet Earth and International Year of the Potato
June 3-5: FAO High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, Rome – IFAP made a presentation at the CSO/NGO Forum and at the Conference Plenary Session
June 4-13: 28th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn, Germany – IFAP was represented at this meeting
June 10-12 European Grassland Conference, Uppsala, Sweden – IFAP Secretary General on a panel discussion on world farmers’ issues
June 16-20: 25th FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC), Nairobi, Kenya
June 17: World Day to Combat Desertification – Press Release sent out
June 17-19: OIE Animal Welfare Working Group, Paris – IFAP is represented on this Group by Per Olsen from the Danish Agricultural Council
June 26-27: 26th FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC), Innsbruck, Austria.
June 26: Agriterra’s 10th Anniversary Seminar, Utrecht, Netherlands – Chaired by IFAP DCC Chair Elisabeth Gauffin
June 27-28: All Holland Dairy Show and Agriterra stand and dinner, Netherlands – IFAP will be represented by President Ajay Vashee, Past President Jack Wilkinson and the Secretariat. AgriCord’s Chair and Managing Director will also participate
June 27: OECD African Economic Outlook: Technical Skills Development in Africa, forum organised by the OECD Development Centre, the African Development Bank and the French government, with the participation of the OECD Secretary-General. The French Ministry of Finance/Bercy, Paris.
June 30-July 4: 31st Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Geneva
June 30 – July 3: WABCG Council, Istanbul, Turkey (visit to Konya on July 3).
July 3: Conference by the French EU presidency and European Commission “Who will feed the world?”, European Parliament,
Brussels – IFAP’s Young Farmers’ Chair Kati Partanen will be speaking at the high-level event
July 5: International Day of Cooperatives
July 5-12 Université Européenne d’été 2008: “Les dynamiques de coopération en Méditerranée: du péril des tensions au pari de l’Union”, IAMMCIHEAM, Montpellier
July 7: ESFIM Steering Committee, Paris
July 7-9: G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit, Hokkaido, Japan.
July 28-30: FORAGRO Meeting, Montevideo, Uruguay (Jack Wilkinson, Fernando López, Vice President of the LAC Committee and Gastón Rico, Vice-President of IFAP Cooperatives Committee will attend)
July 31-August 1: 21st GFAR Steering Committee, Montevideo, Uruguay – IFAP Past-President Jack Wilkinson is Vice-Chair of this Committee
August 11-22: IFAP Office closed for summer break
August 17-23: World Water Week, Stockholm. Theme: "Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World"
August 21-27: Accra Climate Change Talks 2008 - AWG-LCA 3 and AWG-KP 6, Accra, Ghana
August 28-29: African Green Revolution Conference, Oslo, Norway
September 1-4: World Water Congress, Montpellier, France.
September 2-4: High-level forum on Aid Effectiveness, hosted by the government of Ghana and organised by OECD's Development Co-operation Directorate with participation from multilateral banks and the United Nations, Accra, Ghana.
September 3-5: World Agricultural Forum: 2008 African Congress, Kampala, Uganda
September 7-10: IMS World Meat Congress, Cape Town, South Africa
September 16-19: 23rd Conference of the OIE Regional Commission for Europe, Vilnius, Lithuania
September 17-19: 1st Geneva Trade and Development Forum Conference, Crans Montana, Switzerland – This is a sort of ‘Davos’ for developing countries. IFAP’s Secretary General is represented on the Steering Committee on Food and Agriculture
September 22: Economic and Social Committee hearings on: “What is the real prospect of agriculture and food prices?” Brussels – IFAP has been invited to contribute.
September 24: Millennium Development Goal Africa Steering Group, New York, USA.
September 24-25: WTO Public Forum 2008: “Trading into the Future”, Geneva
September 24-26: McGill Conference on Global Food Security, Montreal, Canada
September 29-30: COPA-COGECA 50th Anniversary European Farmers’ Congress, Brussels
October 1st week: 3d RIFOSAL edition of the “Mediterranean Study Days upon Quality and Food Safety 2008-2010”, Tirana, Albania
October 5-9: International Banana Conference, Mombasa, Kenya
October 12-14: 11th General Conference of the Association of Agricultural Institutions in the Near East & North Africa (AARINENA), Damascus, Syria
October 13-17: 34th FAO Committee on World Food Security, Rome.
October 15: World Rural Women’s Day, Theme: Climate Change: Rural Women are Part of the Solution
October 16: World Food Day
October 20-22: 2nd OIE Global Conference on Animal Welfare “Putting the Standards to Work: Towards the Implementation of the OIE’s International Animal Welfare Standards”, Cairo, Egypt – IFAP will send a delegation.
October 23-25 FAO Regional Conference in Asia, Pakistan (tentative)
Octobre 26-31: Implications des changements climatiques sur les systèmes de production agricole durables Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
October 30-31: Global Reporting Initiative, Arkansas, USA
November 3-14 7th Session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC) of the UNCCD, Istanbul, Turkey.
November 4: SAI Platform Advisory Council, Gland, Switzerland – IFAP’s Secretary General is a member of the Advisory Council.
November 9-14: World Dairy Summit, Mexico
November 17-18: OECD Committee for Agriculture, Paris.
November 17-22: FAO Conference Special Session, Rome
November 17-21: 19th Conference of the OIE Regional Commission for the Americas, Havana, Cuba
November 20-21: OECD Global Forum, Paris.
November 30: Awareness Raising Conference on Horticulture for Africa Development, organized by GlobalHort, Maputo, Mozambique
November: Fifth Asia-Africa Forum on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Beijing, China
December: GFAR Steering Committee
December 1-7: CGIAR Annual General Meeting, Maputo, Mozambique
December 1-12: United Nations Climate Change Conference, Poznañ, Poland - COP 14, CMP 4 and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies
2009
January : Forum on Animal Welfare and Trade, European Commission
February 23-27: CSD-17 Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting, New York, USA
March 16-22: 5th World Water Forum, Istanbul, Turkey.
March 17-19: OIE International Conference on Animal Identification and Traceability, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
April 20-22: FAO Committee on Commodity Problems, Rome.
April 22-25: FAO Committee on Agriculture, Rome.
May 4-15: 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, New York
May 22: International Day for Biological Diversity
June 1-12: 29th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
June 17: World Day to Combat Desertification
July 5: International Day of Cooperatives
October 15: World Rural Women’s Day
October 16: World Food Day
October 19-20: North American-EU Agricultural Conference, Niagara, Ontario, Canada
November 17: WABCG ISO Annual Sugar Consultation, London, England
November 18-19: 17th ISO Seminar on "Sugar & Ethanol - from Doom to Boom", London, England – this event will be Chaired by the President of WABCG, Alf Cristaudo, (Australia)
November 30- United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen Denmark COP 15, CMP 5 and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies: signing of a new Kyoto protocol – IFAP will have delegation here
December: OECD Committee for Agriculture biennial consultation with CSO/NGOs, Paris – IFAP is one of the organisations invited to speak.
Unscheduled: IFAP Regional Committee sessions in 2009
2010
2010: International Year on Biodiversity
March 2010: Women’s Preparatory meetings for the IFAD Farmers’ Forum, Rome (IFAP Standing Committee on Women in
Agriculture will be actively engaged in this preparatory meeting)
2011
July: 3rd IFAP Young Farmers’ World Congress (Kenya) – (to be confirmed)