Items in the category "GCARD2-P1"

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – Speaker Brief – The Wheat Initiative – an International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Wheat Initiative1 aims to encourage and support the development of a vibrant global wheat public-private research community sharing resources, capabilities, data and ideas to improve wheat productivity, quality and sustainable production around the world.

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – Speaker Brief. The contribution of the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) to global food security

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) – with over 900 partners from among international research institutes, national academia, development agencies and donors, extension services, private sector, NGOs and civil societies - develops new rice varieties with increased yield potential,...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Speaker Brief - Helen Keller International food-based models, Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA)

Image - EGFAR [Document] HKI’s food-based models integrate nutrition, agriculture and health sectors at the community and household levels. Working with local NGOs and local government partners, we establish community-based extension services (demonstration farms and farmers) to reach underserved poor and extreme-poor...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – Speaker Brief - Farmer involvement in scaling-out impacts on major crops

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an initiative that works across African countries to improve the productivity and sustainable production of smallholder farmers, the majority of who are women. AGRA strives to effect change across the entire agriculture value chain through...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Speaker Brief - ACF Nutrition Security Approach to tackle Under-nutrition. Lessons from the field, way forward and research needs.

Image - EGFAR [Document] Action Contre la Faim (ACF) – a Nutrition Security Approach to tackle under-nutrition (malnutrition?) Lessons from the field, way forward and research needs

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – Speaker Brief - MAIZE and its importance for global food security and sustainable intensification

Image - EGFAR [Document] The MAIZE Research Program (CRP) is a CGIAR global alliance bringing together CIMMYT, IITA and more than 300 institutions (NARES, advanced research institutions, NGOs, CBOs etc.). It aims at ensuring that public-funded international agricultural research helps to sustainably intensify maize-based...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish - Speaker Brief Paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish and the role of development partners: The overall rationale, assumptions and approach adopted by the program will be described, and the specific role that we expect development partners to play in achieving its objectives.

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Briefing Paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] While the research agenda is growing, there remains limited concrete evidence on how agriculture–nutrition linkages work. A mapping exercise has been completed by DFID/LCIRAH outlining the research gaps. However more nutrition-relevant data from agricultural interventions needs to be generated,...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Speaker Brief - Development Opportunity Crops and Species (DOCS): an Essential Contribution to World Food Sustainability and Nutrition

Image - EGFAR [Document] Enhancing diversity through the use of neglected, underutilized crops and species will not only diversify agro-ecosystems and rotations, but also likely to improve adaptability to extreme climatic conditions, provide resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses and produce harvestable yields where...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Speaker Brief - South Asia Food And Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) - Secure Nutrition Knowledge Platform

Image - EGFAR [Document] Over the past three years, the World Bank has made a concerted effort to scale-up work in nutrition and is strongly committed to increasing the multisectorality of its investments by supporting nutrition through other relevant sectors, such as agriculture, social protection and education. The Bank'...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – Synthesis Briefing Paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] The various AR4D initiatives focusing on improving food security face similar challenges such as how to link basic biological research at the international level to its application on the ground in specific countries and contexts, or how to work with development actors to ensure that research...