Mark Holderness, GFAR Executive Secretary, was invited as a moderator for the Network development meeting of the Eurasian Centre for Food Security (ECFS) in Moscow, Russian Federation, from 18 to 20 November 2013. Dr Holderness gave a keynote presentation â€Shaping the future together: Transforming agricultural research, education, extension and enterprise for developmentâ€, summarizing the rationale for the changes agreed in the GCARD Road Map and now being taken up by the wide range of stakeholders delivering the GFAR Medium Term Plan.
Communities worldwide have begun adopting integrated landscape management approaches that work deliberately to support food production, ecosystem conservation and rural livelihoods across landscapes mosaics. While researchers working on landscape and ecosystem processes fully recognize the importance of crop intensification and crop researchers recognize the critical role of landscape and ecosystem processes in sustainable and resilient crop environments, there is still not a coherent research framework that links the two in ways that guide research priorities and strategy.
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Comunidades en todo el mundo han comenzado a adoptar enfoques de gestión integrada del paisaje que trabajan deliberadamente para apoyar la producción de alimentos, conservación de los ecosistemas y los medios de subsistencia rurales a través de mosaicos de paisajes.
Trevor Nichols