Building partnerships, empowering champions: The example of the Cornell Alliance for Science presentation by "Sarah Evanega, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America "

1. Building Partnerships, Empowering
Champions: The Cornell Alliance for Science
FAO Feb 17, 2016
Sarah Evanega (snd@@cornell.edu)
@sarah_evanega

6. Biofortified rice

7. Biofortified
bananas

8. Pod borer
resistant cowpea

9. Water efficient
maize

10. Polled cows

13. The Science Enabling Environment
Capacity
Building
Research
Policy &
Regulatory
Community
Engagement

15. The Cornell Alliance for Science seeks to promote access to scientific
innovation as a means of enhancing food security, improving environmental
sustainability, and raising the quality of life globally.

16. What We Believe
We believe that real science and evidence should influence
decision making around agricultural biotechnology. We are
pro-science, pro-access, pro-public sector, and pro-poor.

17. What We Do
We are working to unite, engage, and empower a network of
partners with grassroots and communications strategies that can
be used to advocate for increased access to biotechnology.

18. Three Core Strategies
1. Establishing a global network of partners who
share the mission of solving complex global issues
by leveraging biotechnology.
1. Training with a purpose so that partners are well
equipped with the tools to advocate for access to
biotechnology
1. Shifting the narrative to a message framework that
targets misinformation and lays out a clear and
concise argument in support of biotechnology

20. 6200+ science allies engaged in 109 countries

21. Three Core Strategies
1. Establishing a global network of partners who
share the mission of solving complex global issues
by leveraging biotechnology.
1. Training with a purpose so that partners are well
equipped with the tools to advocate for access to
biotechnology
1. Shifting the narrative to a message framework that
targets misinformation and lays out a clear and
concise argument in support of biotechnology

23. “Our family farm saw the benefits of
biotechnology for small scale farmers.”
-Joni Kamiya, Hawaii

24. “Every field is using scientific innovation to
advance and there should be no exception
in plant breeding.” - Clet Masiga, Uganda

25. “Access to life improving technologies is a
matter of social justice.” –Jamie Foley,
Vegan GMO, USA

26. “How can I expect people to praise and
worship God if they are hungry and mired in
poverty?” Rev. Fr. Noli Alparce, the
Philippines

28. Data CommunicationsDigital TrainingGrassroots
Our Approach

32. Rev. Fr. Noli Alparce,
Catholic Church-
Philippines

33. Md. Arif Hossain,
Bangladesh

34. Patricia Nanteza, Banana
21 project, Uganda