The FAO will hold the World Summit on Food Security in Rome from November 16-18, 2009. The summit is being convened by FAO Director-General Jacque Diouf to negotiate a declaration for adoption by the World Summit of Heads of State and Government on Food Security.

The 2009 AEC will hold in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from November 11-13, 2009, and will consist of plenary and parallel (break-out) sessions.

The 2009 Borlaug Dialogue Symposium on “Food, Agriculture and National Security in a Globalized World” will take place on October 14 through 16, 2009 in Des Moines, Iowa.

The ReSAKSS-led discussion group at the 2009 IAAE Conference in Beijing, China entitled Informing African Agricultural Development, Planning and Policy will take place on August 19, 2009 in room 307 between 17:30 and 19:00.

The 13th annual Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government took place in Sirte, Libya from June 24 to July 3, 2009 under the theme “Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security”.

CAADP is a program of NEPAD

The 13th annual Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government will take place in Sirte, Libya from June 24 to July 3, 2009. The theme of the summit for this year is “Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security.”

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission and the NEPAD Secretariat brought together representatives of the public and private sectors, including famer organizations, the development partner community, and civil society from June 17 to 18, 2009 in Dakar Senegal, to propose a framework for integrating the private sector into the CAADP agenda.

The workshop aims to create specific public-private alliances in the areas of:

On May 11-12, 2009, ReSAKSS and the Development Strategy and Governance Division (DGSD) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) participated at the World Bank-hosted Public Expenditure Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.