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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 ”Shaping the future together: Transforming agricultural research, education, extension and enterprise for development”, 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. Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012 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.
The GCARD2 process on foresight is intended to advance the Roadmap actions required, paving the way for developing more effective approaches in line with the partnership principles, smallholder farmer and impact-centred focus of the GCARD. The key question the foresight session intends to address is: “What role could smallholder farmers play in meeting future needs in food and nutrition security, poverty alleviation and sustainable management of natural resources?” http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012 Le processus de la GCARD2 sur la prospective a pour but de promouvoir les actions nécessaires de la Feuille de route en vue de favoriser le développement des approches plus efficaces et respectueuses des principes du partenariat, des petits producteur et de la question des impacts ciblées de la GCARD. Cette section permettra de répondre de façon adéquate à la question : «Quel rôle les petits agriculteurs pourraient-ils jouer le future dans la recherche des solutions aux défis de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, de la réduction de la pauvreté et de gestion durable des ressources naturelles?
There is still a lack of clear and common understanding among the sectors concerned with agriculture and rural development about what “foresight” is about and what can be expected from engaging and investing in foresight at various scales form local to global. Many different tools and methods can be used or combined when doing foresight and there is also need to clarify what can be expected from different approaches. The purpose of Session F1 is to inform participants about foresight and update them about the current state of foresight with regards to GCARD’s Roadmap expectations and to prepare them for more in-depth interactions during the next sessions. Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012 Il existe encore un manque de compréhension claire et commune au sein des différents secteurs de l’agriculture et du développement rural sur ce que c’est la "prospective" et ce qui peut être espéré de l’engagement et de l’investissement dans la prospective du niveau local à l’échelle mondiale. Plusieurs outils et méthodes peuvent être utilisés pour la réalisation de la prospective et il est aussi nécessaire de clarifier ce qui peut être espéré des différentes approches.
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