Items in the category "Advocacy"
[Document] 2012 has been a highly productive year. The Global Forum has reinforced its status as the unique multi-stakeholder body addressing agricultural research, extension, education and enterprise and their role in national development (here termed agricultural research-for-development, AR4D). Demands...
[Document] Mark Holderness, GFAR Executive Secretary, was invited as a moderator for the Network development meeting of the Eurasian Centre for Food Security (ECFS) in Moscow, Russian Federation, from 18 to 20 November 2013. Dr Holderness gave a keynote presentation â€Shaping the future together...
[News] Moscow, Russian Federation 8-20 November 2013 Mark Holderness, GFAR Executive Secretary, was invited as a Moderator for the Network development meeting of the Eurasian Centre for Food Security (ECFS) in Moscow, Russian Federation. Responding to the 2008 food price crisis...
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[Document] The central question posed for this Breakout Sub-Session is “What role smallholder farmers now play and could play in meeting the future needs in food and nutrition security, poverty alleviation and sustainable management of natural resources?” Elaborating on this, more specific...
[Document] There is still a lack of clear and common understanding among the sectors concerned with agriculture and rural development about what “foresight” is about and what can be expected from engaging and investing in foresight at various scales form local to global. Many different tools and...
[Document] The problem being addressed is that of building collective actions at regional level in order to incorporate the outcomes of many foresight works (from global, regional, national and local) already conducted into regional strategic actions looking at longer term orientations. There is also a need...
[Document] The problem being addressed is how we can bring together the needed diversity – of stakeholders and approaches – and understand better a number of multidimensional and complex questions such as: How can we inform stakeholders on alternative future scenarios and debate the desirability...
[Document] Experiences with foresight works show that foresight can provide ways for stakeholders to influence research, innovation and policies related to agricultural development. However, the inclusion of the voices of stakeholders - particularly resource-poor farmers - in foresight has been so far...
[Document] The purpose of session F3.2 is to address the capacity development dimension related to the absence of several key sectors of the society in foresight works. Developing foresight capacity is at the same time an issue of individual capacity development and institutional capacity development. At...
[Document] The GCARD2 process on foresight is intended to advance the Roadmap actions required, paving the way for developing more effective approaches in line with the partnership principles, smallholder farmer and impact-centred focus of the GCARD. The key question the foresight session intends to address...
[Document] The GCARD2 F2 session on “Foresight Guiding Research and Innovation” has two sessions running in parallel. Session F2.1 is dedicated to the regional and sub-regional levels. Session F2.2 is focusing on foresight at the global level. This document provides information that is relevant...
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[Events] The French Presidency of the G20 took the initiative to convene in Montpellier on September 12-13, 2011 a conference on Agriculture Research for Development, promoting scientific partnerships for food security. This Conference provides a timely opportunity to consider how G20 Agricultural...
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[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...
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[Document] The GCARD Roadmap establishes an inclusive, rolling process of reform and capacity development that aims to mobilize the full power of agricultural knowledge and innovation towards meeting agriculture and food-related development needs. It proposes a six-point plan for transforming agricultural...
[Document] The ICM4ARD GPP focuses on four issues: advocacy, capacities of IC managers, integration and coherence in information management and improving the governance of the information flow. The major activities within the GPP have been the several regional and inter-regional workshops held every year,...
[Document] This document has been contributed by a group of social scientists and ARD stakeholders, committed to facilitate the GCARD consultation so that it is inclusive of the opinion of all ARD Stakeholders in contributing to increasing net incomes, purchasing power, livelihoods and sustainability of the...
[Document] Like the famous NPK fertilizer formula1 for plant growth, agricultural organizations and institutions require regular doses of the three information, knowledge and communication elements. In the right combinations, and with suitable tools and devices to formulate, spread and apply them, these ¿...
[Document] Paper presented at the World Conference on Agricultural information and IT (IAALD-AFITA-WCCA 2008), in the preliminary workshop on "Adoption of ICT Enabled Information Systems for Agricultural Development and Rural Viability". Abstract: This document, based on information gathered by GFAR through...
[Document] GFAR aims to improve the global flow of agricultural research information and information and communications management for agricultural research for development through four inter-related actions: 1) Awareness, sensitization and advocacy to National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) leaders and...
