Items in the category "Partnerships"

Joint GODAN-CIARD Consultation on Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development

CIARD-GODAN consultation April 2014 [Events] The CIARD (www.ciard.net) partners and the GODAN (www.godan.info) partners are going to meet in a joint GODAN-CIARD Consultation on Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development, taking place in Rome between 22nd and 24th April.  More information here: http://www.ciard.net/1st-...

Development of Eurasian Food Security Network

Mark Holderness at the Eurasian Centre for Food Security (ECFS) in Moscow [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...

The Economist Conference “Feeding the World 2013”

Feeding the World 2013 [News] Prof. Monty Jones, Chair of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, will be a keynote speaker at the next Economist Conference  “Feeding the World 2013: Accelerating Global Collaboration on Food Security” to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January...

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.

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 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 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 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 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...

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

Image - EGFAR [Document] The adaptation and adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop management through innovative techniques like reduced soil movement, adequate surface retention of crop residues and economically viable and diversified crop rotations are the way forward to address the emerging challenges...

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

Image - EGFAR [Document] New organizational arrangements which place the user of research central in the definition of research priorities and in uptake processes are required. This includes a central role for organizations which represent the interests of the smallholders in particular farmer organizations but also for...

The experience of the Specific Union for Farmers Productive In Jordan

Image - EGFAR [Document] Presentation on gender in agriculture made at Rio 20

Gender Sensitivity in Climate Change Adaptation

Image - EGFAR [Document] Presentation on gender in agriculture made at Rio 20, June 2012

Gender needs expressed in the State of Food and Agriculture. Report 2011

Image - EGFAR [Document] Presentation on gender in agriculture made at Rio 20, June 2012.

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 P2.2 Landscape Partnerships—Linking Research and Action on Agriculture, Land, Water, and Forests – Speaker’s Brief

Image - EGFAR [Document] The CGIAR Research Program No. 6: Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Governance (CRP6), brings together four of the world’s leading research centers in their respective subjects: the World Agroforestry Centre, CIFOR, CIAT and Bioversity International —...

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Speaker Brief - Helen Keller International food-based models, Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA)

Image - EGFAR [Document] HKI’s food-based models integrate nutrition, agriculture and health sectors at the community and household levels. Working with local NGOs and local government partners, we establish community-based extension services (demonstration farms and farmers) to reach underserved poor and extreme-poor...