CSO-GARD Forum

Civil-society organisations (CSOs) have self-organised the CSO-GARD (CSO Group on Agricultural Research for Development), an international platform of people in CSOs that want to engage with the global, regional, subregional and national multi-stakeholder fora on ARD. The group promotes an innovation systems approach in which smallholder farmers (including pastoralists, forest dwellers and fisherfolk) are indispensable and equal partners in ARD.

 

The platform arose out of the CSOs involved in GCARD2010 in Montpellier, France. In the meantime, it has expanded to include those who were involved in GCARD2012 in Punta del Este, Uruguay, as well as other members of civil society who seek to create favourable conditions for smallholder farmer organisations (FOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to engage constructively with other stakeholders in ARD. The platform allows a broad spectrum of CSOs to exchange information and views around issues and examples of farmer-led, pro-poor and ecologically oriented ARD.

 

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Statements made by CSOs at GCARD2010 and GCARD2012

            §  NGO statement at GCARD2010 - by Assétou Kanouté

§  Implementing the GCARD Roadmap: Collective Actions by 2014 - by Ajay Vir Jakhar (FO)

§  Implementing the GCARD Roadmap: Collective Actions by 2014 - by Sonali Bisht (NGO)

 

CSO voices in the GFAR Steering Committee

§  Ms Sonali Bisht, INHERE (Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education), India, for NGOs

§  Mr Robert Carlson for FOs

 

CSO`s participation in international meetings