On 8th February,2029, 0930 - 1100hrs in FAO Headquarter, Austria Room, Rome, Africa Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) and the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) join FAO in discussing the need to develop networks and synergies between Africa and Europe to increase the productivity of cropping systems in times of climate change. The seminar will focus on the need to boost sustainable crop production in Africa and how to support climate change adaptation and mitigation. The discussions and presentations will focus on smallholder farming systems in rural Africa and medium-scale commercial farmers in Europe. They will highlight the importance of emerging partnerships and capacity building, strengthening linkages with knowledge hubs and connections to service industries, and the role that agricultural equipment and innovation can play. The event will be webcast at: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/4939/icode/.

During the seminar, the following presenters will be making their public presentation:

Eng. Saidi Mkomwa, Executive Secretary, the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)

ACT is a Pan-African not-for-profit organization that focuses on strengthening the adoption and scaling up of Conservation Agriculture (CA), Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (SAM), improving climate change resilience, enhancing capacity building and partnerships, and strengthening entrepreneurship and business development for Sustainable Agriculture (SA) in Africa.

Prof. Gottlieb Basch, President, European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF).

ECAF is a non-profit making international association that aims to improve farmers, agrarian technicians and society’s access to information on techniques that conserve agrarian soil and its biodiversity, in the context of sustainable agriculture, and to encourage research and development on CA and the biodiversity of agrarian soil, and carry out activities to promote CA.