Concept paper

  1. Linking Farmer Movements
    for Sustainable Agriculture. Project concept paper
  2. Strengthening the Business and Industry (B&I) Participation
    in the Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) Agenda of GFAR
    Setting a Global Strategic Agenda for ARD at GFAR
  3. Concept note to Ford Foundation. Research-extension-farmer linkages (REF) for East and Southern Africa
    Whereas all groups involved in agricultural research claim to focus on poverty and food security for the poor, this rhetoric has not been followed through to the strategic principles operational in programmes. The poor remain subjects of discussion, monitoring and evaluation, and have not been…
  4. Concept Note for a CGIAR Challenge Program
    Linking Smallholder Farmers to Growth Markets within a Globalised Economic System
    Globalisation is causing dramatic changes that are transforming agriculture in developing countries away from supply driven production towards market-driven 'agrifood' business. The impact of these changes on people, economies and the natural environment is, and will continue to be,…
  5. GFAR Position Paper on World Bank/European Union Concept Note: ¿Increasing and Sustaining Productivity in African Agriculture: the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS)¿
    GFAR fully endorses the World Bank/European Union (WB/EU) concept note focusing on increasing and sustaining the productivity of African agriculture. There is consensus that African National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) are in dire need of increased and stable funding support. Unfortunately…
  6. Southeast Asian Forum For Agricultural Research
  7. NRM/Agroecology In The Global Forum For Agricultural Research
  8. The potential of agroecology to combat hunger in the developing world. A 2020 vision for food, agriculture, and the environnent
    It is argued here that agroecology - a science that provides ecological principles for the design and management of sustainable and resource-conserving agricultural systems - offers several advantages over the conventional agronomic or agroindustrial approach. First, agroecology relies on…
  9. Prospects for agroecologically based natural-resource
    management for low-income farmers in the 21st century
    One thing that is clear to most analysts is that food production will have to come from agricultural systems located in countries where the additional people will live in. In these countries, farmers are not only resource poor with no access to credit, technical assistance or markets, but their…
  10. New mechanisms for reinforcing partnerships in Agroecology/Natural resources management Research and Development. Concept paper for the GFAR
    The objective of AE/NRM R&D programs should be, in the first instance, to identify, encourage and diffuse concrete innovations by farmers in managing natural resources. Most of these innovations fall into two broad categories: 1) Bio-technical practices at the farm-family level in the areas of…
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