It is another busy week with lots to add to your calendar. This week’s agriculture events include an online and onsite event on controlled environment agriculture and hydroponic growing. You can also look forward to an exhibition on food processing and packaging, talks about ICT in agriculture as well as climate change discussions. E-mail info@foodformzansi.co.za to have your event added to our weekly calendar.
Hello Mzansi! This week there’s a couple of events happening that you might want to put on your calendar, including the first ever health-themed edition of Food For Mzansi’s weekly Gather To Grow sessions on Twitter spaces. Monday kicks off with an online and onsite event on controlled environment agriculture and hydroponic growing. You can also look forward to a food and packaging trade exhibition, talks on ICT and the future for agriculture and a webinar on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in a changing climate.
Monday, 7 March
Get your hydroponic growing questions answered
Increase your knowledge in controlled environment agriculture and hydroponic growing at the 21st annual Greenhouse Crop Production and Engineering Design Short Course. The online and onsite conference takes place between 7 and 9 March, and is presented by the University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center.
This three-day event will consist of lectures presented by leaders in academia and in the CEA industry, covering a variety of topics. Limited seats are available.
Click here for information on how to register.
Tuesday, 8 March
Food and packaging traded exhibit
When it comes to building a strong, resilient and successful business, every little aspect counts. Which is why you should visit Africa’s leading packaging, printing, food processing, plastics and labelling trade exhibition – Propak Africa 2022. It’s the place to see the latest innovations and technologies, packaging initiatives and cutting-edge machinery, products, consumables, systems and services.
Click here for information on how to register.
Wednesday, 9 March
Join us for the first Food for Mzansi #HealthSpace, with Noluthando Ngcakani
Do you have questions about your health and relationship with food? Do you have a smartphone and a Twitter account? Join us then at 18:00 for a special edition of Food for Mzansi’s Gather to Grow Twitter space held in collaboration with Health For Mzansi head of news Noluthando Ngcakani.
Follow us @FoodforMzansi to join the conversation!
ICT and the future for agriculture
Join industry leaders across the world virtually for a conference exploring the current state and future trends in agriculture, and its intersections with technology, climate, digital inclusion, locally-led development and data sovereignty.
Sponsored by Feed the Future and the German federal ministry for economic cooperation and development through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and others, ICTforAg 2022 offers an interactive virtual experience focused on technical dialogue and fostering collaboration across the digital agriculture community.
Some of the sessions will cover:
- Locally-led development: Best practices in engaging local stakeholders for knowledge sharing on their vision for the context-specific growth of digital solutions, resilience-focused tools, and technologies.
- Climate: adoption of cutting-edge digital technologies and climate-friendly solutions to strengthen climate adaptation and mitigation.
- Digital and data sovereignty: ensuring transparency and access to data, and protecting the privacy of data owners during the digital transformation in agriculture.
- Digital inclusion: access to and adoption of digital agriculture and resilience-focused tools by marginalised communities.
Click here for information on how to register.
Thursday, 10 March
Breeders pride selected Angora sale
Hundreds of Angora goats as well as Merino sheep and Bonsmara and Angus cattle are on auction in Graaf-Reinet in the Eastern Cape, starting at 11:00.
To register, contact Phillip Piek (083 309 4144) or André van Zyl (084 587 7660) from Vleissentraal.
Friday, 11 March
Equitable and sustainable climate resilience of rural communities
This year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) focuses on achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) integrates gender concerns into its work to increase the equitable and sustainable climate resilience of rural communities, with a focus on rural women and girls.
As part of CSW66, IFAD is hosting and taking part in a number of events, with the first happening on 15 March 2022.
The event themed ‘Understanding the gendered risks: Women as the central piece to the climate adaptation puzzle’ will focus on proven gender transformative approaches that build resilience against climate unpredictability and transform individuals, in particular women, into agents of change.
Register here for more information and to a book a virtual seat
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