- How can the voices of the farmers, in particular smallholders shape priorities through foresight? Given that smallholders represent a very large number of individuals with diversity of situations, their individual voices can hardly be incorporated on an individual basis. From the local to the…
- There is no climate security without food security and no food security without climate security. This statement is a summary of Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) held in parallel to COP16 on Saturday 4th December in Cancun. It describes the key issues and outcomes of the Day as well as…
- We, the participants of the V FORAGRO Meeting, in our capacity as such, consider that in order to achieve food security, face the challenges of agriculture and rural development in the current context, reduce rural poverty, increase food production and quality, improve the equity in the…
- Presentation of GFAR at the Open Science Network Meeting on Partnerships, Innovation and Agriculture jointly organized by INRA and CIRAD in Paris on 3 June 2008.
- Presentation of GFAR's mission, priorities and challenges for 2008. PowerPoint presentation at the Steering Committee on 28/11/2007 during the GFAR Statutory Meetings, Bejing, China, 28/11/2007-01/12/2007.
- Inclusiveness: Encouraging stakeholder participation in setting the research agenda
- The GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference was held in New Delhi (India) from November 8th to 11th 2006. The theme of the Conference implicitly questioned the ability of current agricultural approaches to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially those concerned with the eradication of…
- Plenary Presentation: A. Bennet
- The main objective of this thematic study is to present an overview of the achieved IFAD experience in financing projects and programmes for the Rural Development and Market Mechanisms for the Rural Poor. The specific objectives are to highlight: (i) IFAD strategy for increasing access to financial…