Items in the category "Knowledge management"

GCARD2. Breakout session C2.2 Learning and the Empowerment of Youth and Women: Briefing Paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] In 2012, GFAR and partners launched a new mechanism “Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP)” 2 while continuing to provide support to the Young Professionals Platform for Agricultural Research and Development (YPARD). In Africa for example, there are several programs e.g. the ANAFE-...

GCARD2. Breakout session P2.2 Land, Water, Forests and Landscapes - Speaker Brief - More effective actions for the Aral Sea

Image - EGFAR [Document] In the region of central Asia and Caucasus (CAC), collection, assessment and sharing of information on water and land resources, previously under central command of the Soviet Union, have been fragmented during the past decades. In fact, the regional program has supplemented an important role in...

GCARD2. Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Speaker Brief - The Platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Development (PAEPARD)

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) through The European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for Development (AGRINATURA), joined forces in the implementation of the Platform for African-European Partnership on...

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 C1.1. Public Investments - Session Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] Compiling accurate, up-to-date information on AR4D investments and their impacts is extremely challenging, time consuming and is contingent on available human and financial resources. The ASTI initiative is geared not only to assess investments but also to address how to identify indicators for...

GCARD2. Breakout session C 2.1 Institutional knowledge and learning

Image - EGFAR [Document] This session will focus on how to strengthen institutional capacities as well as multi-disciplinary and multi-organizational networking, including through improved policies, management practices, structures and incentives, so that institutions become more adaptive and responsive, as well as more...

GCARD2. Breakout session C3.1 Sharing and Using Agricultural Knowledge - Briefing Paper. Access, Sharing and Transformation of Agricultural Data and Information

Image - EGFAR [Document] Three priority areas of action for making data and information accessible will be discussed. The first priority area is to improve investment through introduction of sound policies and coordinated global, regional and national approaches. The second priority is to develop organizational...

GCARD2. Breakout session C3.2 Making Use of Knowledge and Advisory Systems

Image - EGFAR [Document] The paper will discuss the role of advisory services within agricultural innovation systems; the importance of enhanced capacities for better performance at individual, organisational, and enabling environment level; the constraints and roles of actors at national, regional, and global level; and...

AgriVIVO. Fostering better networking and collaboration among researchers, research managers, practitioners, extensionists, information managers in agriculture.

Image - EGFAR [Document] Presentation of the AgriVIVO project: background and rationale, history of VIVO, AgriVIVO architecture and approach.

AgriVIVO for enabling global networking for agriculture. Concept Note

Image - EGFAR [Document] Concept note for the AgriVIVO project. The primary goal of AgriVIVO is to facilitate better networking of individual researchers and the organizations they belong to for better collaborations and less duplication of efforts. This project will demonstrate the potential for AgriVIVO to leverage...

AgriVIVO: an Ontology-based Store of URIs and Relations between Entities in Agricultural Research

Image - EGFAR [Document] In order to facilitate better collaboration between agricultural research actors and ensure more effective management of research projects and more rational funding, it is desirable to have access to comprehensive information on people's expertise, areas of activities of Institutions, existing...

Interim Proceedings of International Expert Consultation on “Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing”. Beijing, 20-23 June 2011

Image - EGFAR [Document] The International Expert Consultation at Beijing from 20-23 June 2011 sought to stimulate and develop broad-based consideration of AR4D data and is an initial step in a future global activity towards more effective and efficient sharing of Agriculture research-related data and information. The...