Day 1 - Reshaping the future of agriculture together
Opening ceremony
The High Level Dialogue: Towards Transforming Agricultural Research for Development Globally (Adel El-Beltagy)
Day 2 - What are the challenges we need to address?
Introduction: Building a shared vision for change
Dr Monty Jones: Building a shared vision for change
Session: Building from regional expressions of demand
- Reorienting Agricultural Research for Development in Asia-Pacific: The Way Ahead
(Raj Paroda, Executive Secretary, APAARI)
- Agricultural Research for Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus: State, Issues, Problems and Perspectives
(Acad. Hukmatullo Ahmadov, Chair, CACAARI)
- AARINENA Presentation to GCARD 2010
(Ahmad Al Bakri President of AARINENA & Ibrahim Hamdan Executive Secretary, AARINENA)
- Agriculture and rural prosperity from the perspective of research and technological innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Executive Committee of FORAGRO)
- View from US and Canada
(NAFARD)
- The Gcard Process in Africa
(Denis T. Kyetere, Chair, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa)
- GCARD European Regional Consultation
(EFARD)
Session: Transforming agricultural research for development
Transforming agricultural research for development, Dr Uma Lele (Lead Author)
Award ceremonies
Presentations
Day 3 - What do we need to do better? Strengthening the impact of agricultural research in development
Parallel discussion sessions
Thematic areas:
1. Agricultural systems for the poor and vulnerable, Dr Maarten van Ginkel (ICARDA)
- Presentation 1
- Summary 1
2. Enabling agricultural incomes for the poor, Dr Charles Crissman (CIP)
- Research Theme 2
3. Optimizing productivity of global food security crops, Dr Marianne Banziger (CIMMYT)
- Sustainable rice, wheat and maize systems for ensuring global food security
4. Agriculture, nutrition and health, Dr Marie Ruel (IFPRI)
[no presentation for this session]
5. Water, soils and ecosystems, Dr David Molden (IWMI)
- Land, water, ecosystem
6. Forests and trees
- Forests and trees, (CIFOR)
7. Climate change and agriculture, Dr Andrew Jarvis (CIAT)
- Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Parallel session on Mega Program (MP) Climate Change and Agriculture
- Mega Program (MP) Climate Change and Agriculture
8. Agricultural biodiversity, Dr Kwesi Atta-Krah (Bioversity International)
[no presentation for this session]
Parallel sessions: discussion of key strategic needs across systems
• Improving partnerships
[no presentation for this session]
• Addressing gender for inclusive development
- Addressing gender for inclusive development, Dr Jennie Dey dePryck (External Expert)
• Capacity development
- Observations and a request for inclusion in the CIPCAD/GCARD Final Statement for Action on strengthening capacities for ARD and enhancing efficiency of the innovation chain
- Strengthening capacities for ARD and enhancing efficiency of the innovation chain
- Financial and Human Capacities in Agricultural R&D in Developing Countries: Recent Evidence
• Role of the fast-growing economies as new providers
- Role of Fast Growing Economy Countries Role in Global ARD
(Dr. Ajit Maru, GFAR Secretariat)
- India, Agriculture and ARD
(S.K. Datta, Deputy Director General Indian Council of Agricultural Research)
• Knowledge, information and advice in agri-food systems; opportunities and Actions
[no presentation for this session]
• Thinking forward: better predicting and addressing future needs
[no presentation for this session]
• Better benefiting the poor through public-private partnerships for innovation and action
[no presentation for this session]
• Managing risks to farmers in a time of change
- Managing risks to farmers in a time of change
Session: Open Science
- Society-Science and the Environment: The Promise of Interdependent Science
- Young Researchers in ARD: What we need
- Young Researchers Seminar 2010
- Open Science, quizz final
Day 4 - Development of a roadmap for collective action
Session: Report to plenary by rapporteurs on the specific actions developed through the parallel sessions on Day 3
- Enabling Further Fast Growing Economy Countries Role in Global ARD
(Dr. Ajit Maru, GFAR Secretariat)
Session: Refinement and key elements of the RoadMAP (Montpellier Action Plan) to improve the value of agricultural research in development at national, regional and international levels
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