GCARD2. Breakout session P3.1: Innovation for Better Livelihoods – Briefing paper

The farmers, fishers and herders who live on less than US$1.25 per day live complex, highly adaptive lives where individual technical solutions in and of themselves have limited impact. Recognizing this complexity and the importance of working with stakeholders to understand and design solutions that work for them, a diversity of approaches founded in participatory action research have been developed including notably the concept of Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D).