A group of 5 panelists from Uganda, Brazil, Senegal and Europe presented today, on Day 1 of the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, their experiences of collaborations between North-South countries and South-South countries (referring to research exchanges &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/north-south-and-south-south-c… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

What is food security? While I was following today, the P.1.1. session on &#8220;National Food Security&#8221; of the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD 2012) which discusses Partnerships to Achieve Food and Nutrition Security, I was asked this question. The definition &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/the-global-food-policy/">Cont… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Imagine if we were to ask the same question, only with a twist: How’s our researching? The challenge of making user voices heard is not a new one in agricultural research.