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  1. Collective Action on Land Tenure & Climate Change
    The issue Rural poor who have weak or no land tenure rights are among the most vulnerable to the direct effects of climate change, both because insecure land tenure reduces the incentives and capacities to take good care of the land to mitigate /adapt to the effects of climate change, and because…
  2. Shaping the future together: Transforming agricultural research, education, extension and enterprise for development
    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 ”Shaping the future…
  3. Constructive destruction: What has to be changed?
    An essay on food security and sustainable intensification
  4. GCARD2. Breakout session F2.2 Foresight Guiding Research and Innovation at Global Level –Speaker Briefing Paper
    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…
  5. GCARD2. Breakout Session F1. Improving our Visions of the Future - Briefing Paper
    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…
  6. GCARD2. Breakout session F2.1 Foresight Guiding Research and Innovation at regional/national level - Briefing Paper
    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…
  7. GCARD2. Breakout session F2.2 Foresight Guiding research and Innovation at Global Level - Briefing Paper
    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…
  8. GCARD2. Breakout session F3.1 Improving Foresight through Equitable Partnerships - Briefing Paper
    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 limited…
  9. GCARD2. Breakout session F3.2. Developing capacities for Improved Foresight - Briefing Paper
    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…
  10. GCARD2. The state of foresight in food and agriculture and the roads toward improvement - Chapter F1 - Report
    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…
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