Why a Global Forum?
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The generation and use of agricultural knowledge provides the crucial tools to enable and empower the poor to escape from poverty and hunger and to do so in ways that can sustain the productivity of land for generations to come. However, the development challenges we face are immense, complex and changing fast, while investments and capacities in agricultural research and innovation systems have not grown to meet these.
There is a critical need for a revolution in agricultural research for development, to mobilize, reorient, strengthen and bring coherence to systems generating and sharing new knowledge around the world, to overcome systematic failings and efficiently lead to development outcomes for the poor:
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) provides this catalyst for change, the mechanism enabling all those concerned with the future of agriculture and its role in development around the world to come together and address key global needs.
Our actions are focused around four key areas:
• Global advocacy
• Inter-regional partnership
• Knowledge sharing
• Shaping institutions for the future
To find out more about our work see "We're shaping the future of agriculture".
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GFAR seeks to integrate research with the societies it aims to serve and puts farmers and the explicit needs of the poor at the very core of agricultural research and innovation systems. The Global Forum does not directly implement research programmes: agreed actions are delivered through the organizations, networks and agencies involved in, and accountable for, the generation and use of agricultural knowledge for development around the world.
Each of these sectors are represented in this Global Forum and steer its activities. They include:
Regional Research Fora (bringing together all those engaged in generating and disseminating knowledge in public, academic, private and civil society institutions),
intergovernmental agencies,
international research centers,
farmers’ organizations,
non-governmental organizations and
private sector interests (through their own associations at regional and global scales), as well as
development funding agencies.
To find out more about our main stakeholders see:
Who makes up the Global Forum and
Stakeholders' representation within the Forum’s governance.
GFAR brings together their voices and collective actions through processes that are inclusive and equitable, fostering rapid actions and working to ensure agricultural innovation delivers its intended development impact.
