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  1. 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…
  2. Prolinnova India Report 2014
    Prolinnova India completed three years of its existence as member of the global network. We learnt much from fellow members and tried to contribute to strengthening our network and bringing its message to more people. Innovation processes and Participatory Innovation Development are much…
  3. Forward thinking to sustain Western India’s growth in agriculture
    North Gujarat is arid. It has seven districts which include the Kutch (Rann) Desert. About 15 years ago, Banaskantha, a district in the region used to make news for its poverty and regular famines. Today, Unjha, a farming city in North Gujarat is the spice capital of the World and the region…
  4. China and GFAR – together opening new ways of sharing knowledge
    Since its early days, GFAR has placed a large emphasis on strengthening national and regional agricultural information systems. A result of this has been a partnership of over 10 years with the Agricultural Information Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) to…
  5. Don't Forget Family Farmers in the Battle Against Climate Change at COP 20
    As nations gather in Lima in December for the 20th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP20), delegates need to consider the important role played by family farmers in mitigating, adapting, and even reversing climate change. By recognizing agriculture's…
  6. Moving in the right direction: join the debate on the CGIAR agenda
    Last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, the FARA@15 Celebration provided the opportunity to announce the first step of a consultation on the new CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework (SRF), as well as the forthcoming launch of the GCARD 3 process.   “GCARD3 will be a two-year…
  7. Open Access to Agricultural Knowledge for Inclusive Growth
    What happens when almost 75 people passionately interested in open access to knowledge (including data and information) and improving agricultural informatics in India gather together? Lots of scope for knowledge exchange and opening up of opportunities were only two of the outcomes of the "Open…
  8. Transboundary cooperation key to biodiversity conservation
    Participants at the meeting of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity emphasize the need for sharing and collaboration across borders to achieve global biodiversity conservation targets. Conservation scientists, development practitioners and policy makers attending a side event…
  9. GFAR participates in the 4th Research Data Alliance (RDA) plenary meeting in Amsterdam
    The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international initiative started in 2013 by a core group of agencies interested in all data-related aspects of research (the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian…
  10. Farmers’ Rights Capacity-Building Workshop in Honduras
    The XII National Encounter of Smallholder Farmer Innovators of Honduras was held in the city of Siguatepeque from 3-5 September 2014.  One hundred twenty smallholder men and women farmers, as well as decision makers participated at this meeting.   The meeting was a space to…
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