Items in the category "Knowledge and development"

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 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 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...

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.

National Agriculture Data/Information Sharing System Development Workshop in Hangzhou, China

China RING [News] In order to promote agricultural scientific research data and information sharing, accelerate the development of China's agricultural information sharing system, establish effective cooperation mechanisms, strengthen the building of a national agricultural scientific research information...

Enhancing Information and Knowledge Systems for Agricultural Research and Innovation in West Asia and North Africa

Image - EGFAR [Document] Presentation for AARINENA General Assembly. Damascus. 12-14 October 2008

International Consultation on Agricultural Research for Development and Innovation: Addressing emerging challenges and exploiting opportunities through Information and Communication Technologies

Image - EGFAR [Document] Consultation organized by the Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR), FAO of the UN (FAO), Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions APAARI), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Consultation held at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India, in...

Investing in Agricultural Development. Information, Knowledge and Communication the Fertilizers of Future Research Harvests

Image - EGFAR [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 ¿...

V Foragro International Meeting, Montevideo 2008. Institutional Innovations for Promoting Agriculture With Knowledge in the Americas of the XXI Century. Declaration of Montevideo 2008.

Image - EGFAR [Document] We, the participants of the V FORAGRO Meeting, in our capacity as such, consider that in order to achieve food security, face the challenges of agriculture and rural development in the current context, reduce rural poverty, increase food production and quality, improve the equity in the...

The ARD Web Ring. A draft proposal.

Image - EGFAR [Document] This document defines the Global ARD Web Ring as a ¿voluntary coalition of web spaces that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development.¿ All partners under in the Web Ring project should make ARD related information sources more accessible through each other.

Proceedings of the 4th Inter-Regional Consultation for the ICM4ARD GPP held at FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy in the afternoon of 26th September 2007

Image - EGFAR [Document] Proceedings of the 4th Inter-Regional Consultation for the ICM4ARD GPP, September 2007

3rd Programme Committee Meeting. Beijing, China 28 -29 November 2007. Progress Report: ICM4ARD

Image - EGFAR [Document] 3rd Programme Committee ICM4ARD progress report. Background document for the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.

The ICM4ARD GPP. Progress report from 2004-2007. Report for GFAR Statutory Meetings ¿ Beijing, China

Image - EGFAR [Document] ICM4ARD GPP Progress Report 2007. PowerPoint presentation at the Programme Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.

Progress report: ICM4ARD

Image - EGFAR [Document] A review of the GFAR Global Partnership Programme (GPP) on Information and Communication Management for Agricultural Research for Development (ICM4ARD) as of November 2007.

Proceedings of AARINENA RAIS General Assembly Meeting 25-26 April 2006 ICARDA, Amman, Jordan

Image - EGFAR [Document] Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential component for development, not only of the agricultural sector, but also of industrial, environmental, and service sectors as well. It is a crucial element in establishing the sustainable development in any country. Realizing...

Updates on facilitating activities of the Secretariat: Rural Knowledge Systems

Image - EGFAR [Document] Follow-up to the establishment of partnership programme on Rural knowledge systems and innovation processes

Rural Learning Networks @ CF/FONP Concept Paper for Strategy Development

Image - EGFAR [Document] The situation analysis on ¿Knowledge sharing and participatory extension in community¿based/private small-scale tree and forest management¿, commissioned to ETC Ecoculture, was recently finalised. The study made a recommendation that FTPP and CF/FONP should pay more attention to the following...