Brief

  1. GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – Speaker Brief – The Wheat Initiative – an International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement
    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.
  2. GCARD2. Breakout Session P3.2 Turning Innovations into Market Opportunities – Speaker Brief
    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…
  3. 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…
  4. GCARD2. Breakout session P3.1: Innovation for Better Livelihoods – Briefing paper
    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…
  5. GCARD2. Breakout Session P2.1 Sustainable Use of Biodiversity. Briefing Paper
    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,…
  6. GCARD2. Breakout Session P2.2 Land, Water, Forests and Landscapes – Session Brief
    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, Nepal…
  7. GCARD2. Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Speaker Brief
    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…
  8. 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
    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…
  9. GCARD2. Breakout session P3.2 Turning Innovations into Market Opportunities - Speaker brief
    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…
  10. GCARD2. Breakout session C1.1 Public Investments – Speaker Brief - CGIAR Fund investment trends
    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…
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