Engaging society

  1. Collaborative Foresight: Finding solutions to youth unemployment in East Africa through agriculture
    Agriculture accounts for almost 30% of the average GDP of the economies of East Africa countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia). It also provides employment and livelihood for more than 40% of people in the region. However, with a combined population of 249.9m people …
  2. Initiative de prospective locale – Formation de facilitateurs pour la Co-élaboration de scénarios
    Avril 20-25, 2015 – CHASAADD (centre de formation agropastorale de Mfou) - Yaoundé- Cameroun   L’atelier est organisé dans le cadre du protocole d’accord entrel’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) et laPlate-forme Régionale des Organisations…
  3. Empowering local organisations through foresight
    With the support of the Asian Farmers Association and  the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, Don and Gaspar from API, an Indonesia farmer organization,  Nikka, Esther and Jonathan from PAKISAMA, a Philippines farmer organization and Sonali, Sudhir and Manoj from INHERE, a local…
  4. Empowering local organisations through foresight
    Blog by Robin Bourgeois, Senior Foresight Advisor, GFAR Secretariat   What do the people from the Boru community of Flores in Indonesia, from South Palawan in the Philippines and from the Kumaun and Garhwal region, Uttarakhand in the Central Himalaya in India have in common? They all have a…
  5. Asian Farmers Association, GFAR conduct training workshop on grassroots foresight
    Feb 5, Quezon City, Philippines – In usual ways, the future of agriculture is shaped by the views of the international community, and organisations from advanced/emerging countries, many times with limited involvement of family farmers and their organizations. These futures usually address…
  6. “Future Smart” Farmers: the urgency of democratizing foresight
    “How we share the future will not only be determined by how we share our rulebooks, and how we share the planet, but also how we share decision-making”. Claire A. Nelson, Chief Ideation Leader of the Futures Forum.  Development (2014) 56(4):478.   The future is an area of increasing…
  7. Second Preparatory Meeting for the 2015 Regional Congress - How to integrate agricultural communities in the Mediterranean region
    Source: YPARD   Under the theme "No more left behind: rural communities in times of transitions", the Foundation for South-North Mediterranean Dialogue in association with the Global Forum of Agricultural Research (GFAR) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina organized the Second Preparatory…
  8. Action plan - Grassroots Foresight Initiative
    During the 3rd Foresight Exchange Workshop, held in Montpellier, June 4-5, 2014, representatives of Farmers Organizations, NGOs, and members of the Forward Thinking Platform met and discussed the implementation of the Grassroots Foresight Initiative supported by GFAR through the Global Foresight…
  9. Dialogues on the Future for South & North Mediterranean rural communities
    Jointly established by the multi-partner European Movement International and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Foundation for South-North Mediterranean Dialogue is a broad-based civil society movement, addressing a range of challenges common to the Mediterranean region and working to bring…
  10. Examining possible future scenarios for African agriculture
    FARA, with the support of Dr Robin Bourgeois of the GFAR Secretariat, organized an exercise reflecting on potential future scenarios to enable sustainable rural areas in Africa during the FARA Africa Agriculture Science Week.   This foresight side event also provided a training process…
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