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Remote Sensing for Urban and Rural Development & Resilience (ReSiDeR) in South Africa (VLIRUOS Community Talks)

📅 Wednesday 26 February 2025 11h00 – 12h00 (CET) Register here What is this Community Talks about? Climate change is hitting both rural 🌾 and urban 🏙️ environments hard. ⚠️Cape Town’s water crisis ...

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Modelling Infectious Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Current trends and policies implications (VLIRUOS Community talks XL)

What is this Community Talks about? The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 highlighted the critical need for preparedness in responding to future pandemics. Effective disease control relies on the swift and a...

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Multidisciplinary Workshop Water, a Critical Resource

Brussels, Monday 1 December 2025 First Announcement and Call for Contributions Venue: Palais des Académies – Paleis der Academiën Rue Ducale 1 – Hertogsstraat 1 1000 Brussels AIM OF THE THEME DAY Th...

4b.2 Enhance and encourage farmers' role as biodiversity stakeholders

The role of farmers as actors in biodiversity protection should be encouraged. Farmers play a key role in agricultural ecosystems to protect and enhance the environment, biodiversity, natural resources, soil and genetic diversity (e.g. crop rotation,...

4b.3 Promote agricultural diversification and agroecological practices

Promoting agricultural diversification and agroecological practices to foster sustainable farming systems. Agroecology is a holistic and integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and...

4b.3bis Supporting a transition to alternative and sustainable proteins

If we want to reduce our ecological footprint, we need to move away from animal proteins to a more sustainable agricultural and food system. Indeed, current animal protein production has a significant environmental impact, both nationally and in the...

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Hydrological restoration in drained fen peatlands

Peatlands are often drained by ditches and creeks in function of agriculture, resulting in ecosystem degradation, huge CO2-emissions and biodiversity loss. To restore these rare and important ecosyste...

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Biodiversity Learning Platform

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. It is the first global agreement to cover al...

 
 
 

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