Due to an administrative issue, this vacancy is being reopened. It is a professional position, not a consultancy as previously advertised. All who have applied previously are encouraged to please re-submit their applications to the position number in I-recruitment so that they can be considered as candidates. Applications will be accepted until COB Monday, 18 December 2017.
GFAR themes 2013
A delegation from the GFAR Secretariat was received last week by the Minister of Agriculture and Water Management of Burkina Faso, the Honorable Jacob Ouedraogo, to discuss developing collective actions to solve problems in agriculture at scale in the country. The delegation, led by Prof. Wale Adekunle, GFAR Senior Adviser on Knowledge, Innovation and Enterprise, presented GFAR's unique approach to working with countries, taking high-level challenges, and using innovation platforms to solve them.
Issues around farmers’ rights to data, both in terms of access to data and ownership of data, are crucial to one of the key areas of activity of GFAR: the opening of access to information systems for sharing, transforming and using agricultural knowledge, especially in light of GFAR’s overall approach to putting the smallholder farmer at the centre of innovation and seeking change in their lives.
GFAR themes 2013
Issues around farmers’ rights to data, both in terms of access to data and ownership of data, are crucial to one of the key areas of activity of GFAR: the opening of access to information systems for sharing, transforming and using agricultural knowledge, especially in light of GFAR’s overall approach to putting the smallholder farmer at the centre of innovation and seeking change in their lives.