Items in the category "Capacity building"

The GCARD Road Map: Transforming Agricultural Research for Development Systems for Global Impact

Image - EGFAR [Document] The contributions and dynamic interaction of thousands of stakeholders from all sectors have created the GCARD Roadmap, providing a clear path forward for all involved. The Roadmap highlights the urgent changes required in AR4D systems globally, to address worldwide goals of reducing hunger and...

The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures final report and executive summary provide an overview of the evidence and discuss the challenges and choices for policy makers and others whose interests relate to all aspects of the global food system. Visit the BIS Reports and Publications...

The GCARD Road Map: Transforming Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) Systems for Global Impact

Image - EGFAR [Document] The contributions and dynamic interaction of thousands of stakeholders from all sectors have created the GCARD Roadmap, providing a clear path forward for all involved. The Roadmap highlights the urgent changes required in AR4D systems globally, to address worldwide goals of reducing hunger and...

Needs and Opportunities for a Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building. The Context

Image - EGFAR [Document] Proposal for a GPP on Plant Breeding Capacity Building. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.

Ensuring production quality and safety for small rural agroenterprises: learning and projecting from experience. Concept note 4

Image - EGFAR [Document] Goal: To contribute to the equitable and sustainable integration of small and medium-scale agroenterprises in rural and peri-urban areas into value-adding supply chains serving growth markets Support to Small and Medium Agro-enterprises (SMaEs) in developing countries to develop appropriate Food...

Concept note to Ford Foundation. Research-extension-farmer linkages (REF) for East and Southern Africa

Image - EGFAR [Document] Whereas all groups involved in agricultural research claim to focus on poverty and food security for the poor, this rhetoric has not been followed through to the strategic principles operational in programmes. The poor remain subjects of discussion, monitoring and evaluation, and have not been...

Agricultural research for development agenda of regional fora

Image - EGFAR [Document] Food insecurity, poverty and natural resources degradation are three scourges that continue to plague developing countries, and which often seem intractable. The global community continues, however, to confront these problems, monitor progress made and set targets that need to be achieved in order...

The AIT extension on ICT capacity building for the region

Image - EGFAR [Document] Vision: AIT will strive to become a leading and a unique regional multicultural institution of higher learning, offering state of the art education, research and training in technology, societal development and management. AIT will achieve this vision by working together with its international...

Progress with PROLINNOVA (promoting local innovations). Updates on GPPs and pending projects. Promotion of Farmer Innovation and Experimentation in Ethiopia (PROFIEET)

Image - EGFAR [Document] Many institutions involved in rural development, both locally and globally, are giving greater attention to the indigenous knowledge (IK) of farmers. Researchers and practitioners in rural development now see this not as a static asset but rather as a dynamic system of local experimentation and...

Updates on GPPs and other initiatives: PROLINNOVA. PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically-oriented agriculture and NRM: integrating Participatory Innovation Development into research, extension and education

Image - EGFAR [Document] PROLINNOVA (PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management) is an international initiative spearheaded by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) seeking to 1) strengthen agricultural research and development (ARD) partnerships and methods to promote...

New partnerships in knowledge management for local innovation

Image - EGFAR [Document] Importance of local innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture .Many NGOs working with small-scale farmers in marginal areas ¿ and a few committed scientists working on the margins of some agricultural research institutes ¿ therefore entered into another type of research designed to develop...

Building Capacity for the Strategic Management of Institutional Change in Agricultural Science and Technology Organizations in Latin America. The ISNAR ¿New Paradigm¿ Project

Image - EGFAR [Document] The goal of the Project is to strengthen the institutional sustainability of agricultural science and technology organizations in Latin America. Its purpose is to build conceptual, methodological and technical capacities in the management of institutional change and innovation.