GCARD3 MEDIA RELEASE - April 8, 2016
Farming needs a change of image if it is to attract more young people as a career, according to young agricultural leaders addressing an international meeting on global agricultural research for development held in Johannesburg this week.
GCARD3 MEDIA RELEASE - April 8, 2016
The two greatest challenges facing the world today are malnutrition and climate change, and it is going to require a concerted approach from science and society to deal with them, according to Dr Lindenwe Majele Sibanda, CEO of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN).
On Thursday, GCARD3 participants relocated to the Agricultural Research Council South Africa (ARC) Roodeplaat Campus, for a special programme commemorating the ARC’s 25th anniversary.
On Wednesday morning, the GCARD3 opening plenary began with a historical overview of the GCARD process. Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary, Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), described how the 2008 food crisis led to the initiation of the GCARD process resulting in the GCARD Road Map and the reform of the CGIAR. Kwesi Atta-Krah, CGIAR, highlighted some lessons and recommendations from the national and regional consultations leading up to GCARD3, followed by a panel discussion focusing on recent GCARD consultations in Tanzania, Ethiopia, India and the Asia-Pacific region.
The 3rd Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3) formally opened on Tuesday evening, 5 April 2016, at the Birchwood Hotel and O.R. Tambo Conference Centre in Boksburg, South Africa. Addressing the overall theme of ‘No One Left Behind; Agri–food Innovation and Research for a Sustainable World,’ the Conference is part of a two-year consultative process to build collective actions to transform and strengthen agricultural research and innovation systems in line with the vision developed through GCARD1 and expressed as joint initiatives among GCARD2 stakeholders.
Within two weeks, 96 young professionals from every region of the world applied to be part of the GCARD3 Global event’s youth delegation.
Il s’agit du diagnostic territorial rétrospectif de la Région de Ségou. Une première version a
servi à la préparation de l’atelier de prospective « Les avenirs de Ségou en 2035 » qui s’est
tenu à Bamako du 8 au 12 juin 2015 et qui a donné lieu à la production d’un rapport,
également disponible. Une deuxième version, très largement enrichie, datée de janvier 2016,
a été éditée en cent exemplaires, et diffusée lors des ateliers de restitution de Ségou et
Bamako, les 16 et 17 février 2016. Ce document (daté de mars 2016) constitue la version
To mark the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is stepping it for women to raise awareness about their roles and recognize their invaluable contribution to agriculture and other socio-economic, cultural and political aspects of life in the world’s most vulnerable communities in rural drylands.