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Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

‘The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB) Office, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is seeking motivated individuals who are looking for a challenging, yet rewarding role in the content development of a technical report on the ‘Scientific and Economic Foundations’ for a project on ‘TEEB for Agriculture & Food’.

‘TEEB for Agriculture & Food’ (TEEBAgriFood) study will seek to bring together scientists, economists, policymakers, business organizations, civil society and farmer/consumer groups in order to undertake a comprehensive economic evaluation of agricultural systems, practices, products, along value chains and across policy scenarios, to form assessments and provide recommendations that recognize and reflect a comprehensive range of impacts and dependencies.

TEEBAgriFood will seek to review the economic interdependencies between human (including health, nutrition, economic and social) systems, agriculture and food systems, and biodiversity and ecosystems. In doing so, it will address the economic invisibility of many of these links while exploring how biodiversity and key ecosystem services deliver benefits to the agriculture sector and also beyond, itself being a key contributor to human health, livelihoods and well-being.

The objectives of this project are not limited to the assessment of a wide range of hidden costs and benefits of various agricultural production and food systems (making values visible), but to also build an evidence base that provides context-specific examples and recommendations for “sustainable” food systems, i.e. systems that can feed the world with nourishing, healthy diets and without creating high burdens of disease while also ensuring equitable access to resources and livelihoods to farm workers and maintaining and improving ecosystem services for the benefit of all including generations to come.

For more information, visit the TEEB website

Welcome to November GFAR Update!

The 2016 Partners’ Assembly of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) decided to create a new Steering Committee for GFAR, one that is representative of all sectors, and which truly reflects the diversity of stakeholders in agricultural research and innovation around the world. The Report of Proceedings of the Partners' Assembly can be found here

We are now asking the Partners in GFAR to identify who, from among the Partners from their sector, they wish to have represent their perspectives and interests in the new Steering Committee, the body that sets and drives the agenda for GFAR each year. More details will shortly be provided on the selection processes involved.

There is still time to register!

If you wish to be nominated, or to be able to nominate another organization, to represent your interests and concerns, it is necessary for your organization to first register itself as a Partner in GFAR


This month, we are also very pleased to share with you the GFAR 2015-6 Interim Progress Report, which was compiled for the Forum's primary donor, the European Union, and has now been endorsed for public release. The Report summarizes the many outputs and outcomes that you, the Partners who make up GFAR, have achieved through your collective actions and with the EU's invaluable support over the last year. 

The Report can be viewed and downloaded HERE

GFAR Secretariat would like to congratulate all of you, the Partners who make up and drive this dynamic global forum, for your amazing efforts, working together in so many ways to transform agri-food research and innovation through your cross-sector partnership, collective action and common advocacy.

Our work and achievements together over the last year give a tremendous basis on which we can all build in 2017 to really shape the future we all wish to see!

GFAR is an open and inclusive movement for change, open to all who share in our common purpose of advocating for, and catalyzing Collective Actions to strengthen and transform agri-food research and innovation systems, so that they are more effective in sustainable development. GFAR Update is a briefing service from the GFAR Secretariat. Our aim is to keep you regularly informed and aware of new initiatives and collective actions of the Partners in GFAR around the world, so that these can have greater reach and impact for those we serve - in particular for poor smallholder farmers and consumers.