Items in the category "Global Conferences on ARD"

Foresight at GCARD2: when stakeholders get together

GCARD2 - Foresight sessions [News] Stakeholder participation is central for reforming agricultural research for development. It is central for improved foresight, too.   What does it mean in practice? See below what happened during the GCARD2 foresight sessions:   60% of the Chairs and...

GCARD2. Breakout sessions P2.1: Sustainable Use of Biodiversity - CGIAR Perspectives on Agro-Biodiversity Research - Speaker's brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] In this paper/presentation addressing CG perspectives in research on agro-biodiversity, the focus and emphasis is on the plant dimension of agricultural biodiversity, with particular emphasis on the in situ conservation and on-farm management and use of agro-biodiversity.

ASTI Global Assessment of Agricultural R&D Spending

Image - EGFAR [Document] The first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) in 2010 catalyzed a plan to transform agricultural research and development (R&D) around the world. The resulting GCARD Roadmap recommends a regularized process of monitoring institutional, human, and financial...

What was said about GCARD2

What was said about GCARD2 [News] Alexander Müller (FAO): If we are talking about innovation, we have to look how we can change the situation on the ground. So looking at impacts, the improvement in the livelihoods under very different circumstances is the most important issue, and therefore, I really think that the GCARD...

ASTI Global Assessment of Agricultural R&D Spending

Image - EGFAR [Document] The first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) in 2010 catalyzed a plan to transform agricultural research and development (R&D) around the world. The resulting GCARD Roadmap recommends a regularized process of monitoring institutional, human, and financial...

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 P3.2 Turning Innovations into Market Opportunities – Speaker Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] Many are now urging greater attention to farm-to-fork value chains and how smallholder benefits generated bythose chains can be increased. This change in perspective has far-reaching consequences both for R4D priorities and for partnerships. In this Briefing Paper we utilize ICRISAT’s...

GCARD2. Breakout session F2.2 Foresight Guiding Research and Innovation at Global Level –Speaker Briefing Paper

Image - EGFAR [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...

GCARD2. Breakout session P3.1: Innovation for Better Livelihoods – Briefing paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] The farmers, fishers and herders who live on less than US$1.25 per day live complex, highly adaptive lives where individual technical solutions in and of themselves have limited impact. Recognizing this complexity and the importance of working with stakeholders to understand and design solutions...

GCARD2. Breakout Session P2.1 Sustainable Use of Biodiversity. Briefing Paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] The problems being addressed in this session are related to ensuring global food and nutrition security, as well as promoting resilience in production systems and delivering ecosystem services through agricultural biodiversity. Whole landscape management approaches embody biodiversity management,...

GCARD2. Breakout Session P2.2 Land, Water, Forests and Landscapes – Session Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] The current and future food security of South Asian countries has twin challenges of resource fatigue and decelerating productivity growth of food grain crops. Realizing the importance of these issues not only at national level but also at regional level, the regional NARS (Bangladesh, India,...

GCARD2. Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Speaker Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] The Africa-Brazil and LAC-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplaces (~Mktplace~) have been arising as effective mechanisms for South-South Cooperation supporting smallholders. These are partnerships comprised of public and private not for profit, national and international partners who mobilize...

GCARD2. Breakout session P3.3 Rebuilding Livelihoods in Post-Conflict and Protracted Crisis Countries: Results of the Kigali Workshop on Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Innovation

Image - EGFAR [Document] Agricultural research and development (AR4D) systems are basic to finding the long-term solutions to the sources and motors of recurrent crises. AR4D in post-conflict and protracted crises countries invariably suffers from poor research infrastructure and financial means, high staff turnover and...

GCARD2. Breakout session P3.2 Turning Innovations into Market Opportunities. Innovations from the Empowering Smallholder Farmers in the Markets (ESFIM) Programme

Image - EGFAR [Document] There is a need for strong farmer organizations that can present and represent the interests of smallholders versus more powerful economic groupings in society. However, farmers’ organizations often lack access to the information and evidence needed to develop pro-active proposals to...

GCARD2. Breakout session P2.2 Land, Water, Forests and Landscapes. Landscape Partnerships - Linking Research and Action on Agriculture, Land, Water, and Forests – Session Briefing Paper

Image - EGFAR [Document] Communities worldwide have begun adopting integrated landscape management approaches that work deliberately to support food production, ecosystem conservation and rural livelihoods across landscapes mosaics. While researchers working on landscape and ecosystem processes fully recognize the...

GCARD2. Breakout session P3.2 Turning Innovations into Market Opportunities - Speaker brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] The objective is to identify specific interventions that can improve RPOs’ capacities. While recognizing other determinants of success our innovation will be to examine ways to affect RPOs’ performance on input and output markets, through enhanced commitment of members. Broadly...

GCARD2. Breakout session C1.1 Public Investments – Speaker Brief - CGIAR Fund investment trends

Image - EGFAR [Document] As a key aspect of the CGIAR reform, the CGIAR’s multi-donor trust fund was formed to pool and harmonize donor funding to support research priorities. By focusing on impact and results, the Fund aims to attract larger contributions from more diverse sources and improve the quality of...

GCARD2. Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Session Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] This session will: 1)Take stock of North – South and South – South collaboration in agricultural research for development based on recent dialogues and conferences on the topic 2) Identify the main constraints that have limited both North-South and South – South collaboration in agricultural...

GCARD2. Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Speaker Brief CAADP-CGIAR Alignment

Image - EGFAR [Document] In spite of the latent important mutual benefits flowing from their stronger coordination and alignment, CAADP and the CGIAR have remained largely disconnected. In order to overcome this shortcoming three principal actors in CAADP and the CGIAR, namely: (i) the relevant CAADP institutions (Africa...

GCARD2. Breakout session P3.3. Report. The Kigali Movement. Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Innovation in Post-Conflict and Protracted Crises Countries: A Consultative Learning Workshop. 6 – 8 September 2012, Hotel Des Mille Collines, Kigali, Rwan

Image - EGFAR [Document] Starting with background information, the report presents a summary of the plenary presentations of the workshop, which includes a brief on the post-conflict and protracted crisis environment in the 15 participating countries. A section is thereafter dedicated to process steps that eventually led...

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 C1.1 Public Investments – Speaker’s Brief. Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)

Image - EGFAR [Document] ASTI collects primary data for low- and middle-income countries through national institutional surveys and in recent years has collected detailed quantitative data on a large number of South Asian and sub-Saharan African countries. In efforts to fill some of the geographical gaps for other...

GCARD2. Breakout session P2.2 Land, Water, Forests and Landscapes - Speaker Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] AIRCA will bring an integrated and holistic approach to solving development problems at a landscape scale through the mobilisation of nine agricultural R&D centres with a wealth of expertise across a range of ecosystem types and crops. AIRCA’s members have a demonstrated ability to...