The GCARD2 breakout sessions have already begun to make a mark as experts and practitioners alike shared their experiences, success and failures relating to household nutrition security. The discussion was one of the Parallel sessions under the topic: Improving our &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/fighting-the-battle-household… 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" />

Los reporteros sociales de la GCARD2 recibimos al Presidente José Mujica, de pié y con muchas preguntas. Asistió junto al Ministro de Agricultura y Pesca Ing Agr Tabaré Aguerre, quien contestó alguna de las preguntas de los reporteros.

Aunque resulte obvia su respuesta, resulta necesaria revisarla para entender la importancia que tiene este factor en el desarrollo en general y más específico en la agricultura.  Imaginemos esto por un segundo: Agricultura sin conocimiento…es IMPOSIBLE. Existirá alguien que aún &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/agricultura-y-desarrollo-sin-… 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" />

From pre-conference meetings, to opening ceremony and plenary sessions, it was clear from the speakers and participants at the second Global Conference for Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2), that partnership is the key if we want to improve livelihoods of &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/partnership-the-key-to-food-s… 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" />

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.