The document discusses GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research) and GCARD (Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development) and their role in transforming agricultural research for development. It notes that business as usual is not an option and discusses the need to ensure the needs of smallholders are met while sustainably managing resources. It outlines that GCARD aims to inclusively define priorities driven by development needs, develop equitable partnerships, and achieve increased investments to meet development goals. Finally, it provides an overview of the GCARD roadmap and areas of focus such as foresight and priority setting, partnerships for impact, investments, and developing human and institutional capacities.

1. GFAR and the GCARD:
Transforming Agricultural Research for Development
Monty Jones, GFAR Chair

2. Putting the farmer at the centre of innovation:
Business as usual is not an option…
How can we increase food & nutrition
security and farmer incomes while:
• Ensuring the needs of resource-poor
smallholders & householders are met
• Sustainably managing environmental
resources
• And what kind of innovation systems do
we need to meet these challenges?

3. All knowledge has value
• Scientific knowledge is reductionist,
trusted & validated by its method
• Local knowledge is holistic, trusted &
validated by experience
• Need to link & reconcile these
knowledge & trust bases
• Sustainable development
must value & capitalize on both

4. Global Forum on Agricultural Research:
the Multi-stakeholder Catalyst for action
 Advocacy for Change
 Transforming Institutions for the Future
 Global Collective Partnership actions
 Sharing Knowledge for All
G8 Statement on Food Security 2009:
“We support the fundamental reform processes underway in the
global agricultural research system through the Global Forum on
Agricultural Research"

5. CGIAR – a new vision of impacts achieved with partners
To reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and
enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international
agricultural research, partnership and leadership
Strategy & Results Framework has 4 System Level Outcomes
Reducing Sustainable
Improving
Rural Improving Management
nutrition and
Poverty Food Security of Natural
health
Resources

6. Why GCARD?
 Why have many apparently effective technologies not been adopted and
yield gaps remain?
 How can knowledge and innovation better benefit the poor?
 How can international public goods fit with national processes?
 Why isn’t agricultural innovation better valued in development?
 How can we build more collective action towards large scale
development impacts?

7. GCARD’s Evolution
GFAR – Catalyzing partnerships for action among all those
generating, accessing, adapting & using agricultural knowledge &
technologies
CGIAR – Reform & SRF of International agricultural research system
requires partnership, consultation & accountability
GCARD: Outcome-focused process for transforming and
strengthening agricultural innovation systems around the world

8. GCARD 2010: We’ve come a long way together
Regional Reviews
E-Consultations
Face to Face
Workshops
CGIAR Strategy & Regional AR4D Priorities
Results Framework GCARD Global Report
GCARD
Conference GCARD Synthesis &Proceedings
CGIAR Consortium GCARD Roadmap National, Regional and
Research Programs Global Actions

9. GCARD Roadmap
1. Inclusively define priorities and 4. Develop required human &
actions, driven by development institutional capacities
needs
5. Embed innovation in
2. Develop equitable partnerships development programs &
among all stakeholders policies
3. Achieve increased investments to 6. Involve stakeholders in
meet development needs accountability and value
systems used

10. GCARD 2: 2012
Foresight and partnership for innovation and impact
on small-holder livelihoods
It’s all about you:
Your aims
Your actions
Your commitments

11. Roadmap: Improving foresight & prioritization
Better envisioning our future needs
 Not just for projecting what the world will become but for
deciding what kind of world we would like to see in future
 The nature of the process by which we develop our future
visions determines its influence: smallholders must have a say
in envisioning their future.
 Changing mindsets… always a long process

12. Roadmap: Improving foresight & prioritization
Many lenses focused on our futures
 GCARD 2010 - need a better
understanding of future needs &
research prioritization
 G20-ARD 2011 - G20 Ministers
widely welcomed concept of a Global
Foresight Hub
 Science Forum 2011 - Hub concept
developed, bringing together
forecasts and scenarios and valuing
both

13. Roadmap: Improving foresight & prioritization
Foresight in 2012
 Global Foresight Hub: what is the future of
smallholder farming?
 Over 40 studies analyzed in depth: global,
regional and national scales
 Developing the capacities required:
African Foresight Academy
 Envisioning the future agriculture we wish
to see, and its implications, so that
research works towards our desired aims

14. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Food Security
CGIAR CRPs & GCARD processes supporting development of the jigsaw puzzle of actions
required between innovation and impact
Mobilizing partnerships, policies and capacities for scaling out CRP Intermediate Development
Outcomes to impact
Practical accountability to smallholder farmers:
 World Bank and IFAD processes for scaling-out innovations
 Framework for increasing wheat productivity in S Asia - APAARI & CIMMYT
 End-user feedback loops piloted with GRiSP and FARA
 Reconciling farmers rights and breeders rights: GFAR with CGIAR, International Treaty,
Commission, NGOs, seed companies

15. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Fostering Collective Action in Nutrition
GCARD bringing together FAO Sustainable diet diversity,
CRP Nutrition and Health, WFP Purchase for Progress,
Scaling-Up Nutrition, NGO actions, London Declaration
etc
Developing new understanding and linkages
Integrating diet diversity, biofortification, food safety
and supplementary feeding processes
Nutrition-centred research and index of nutritive
quality in production
Linkage with Gender in Agriculture Partnership & child
nutrition and growth

16. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Climate change
Global joint actions: CCAFS/ GFAR /CTA /IFAD /GDPRD /FANRPAN /FAO /WB /WFO etc
 Agriculture & Rural Development Day… now Agricultural Landscapes & Livelihoods Day
 Joint advocacy in Rio+20
Supporting regional actions:
 CCAFS,WMO and Regional Fora working with national partners to examine policy
environment and needs in climate smart agriculture
 Tsukuba Framework – APAARI (Asia-Pacific) then climate smart agriculture meeting
 Kuwait Framework – AARINENA (West Asia/North Africa)
Now require practical & collective actions delivering on the frameworks

17. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Agro-biodiversity
 Frameworks for action developed through Year
of Biodiversity , linked Regional Fora and CGIAR,
esp. Bioversity International:
 FARA - Agro-Biodiversity Initiative for Africa
(ABIA)
 APAARI - Suwon Framework and subsequent
actions on framework implementation, invasive
species
 AARINENA - Regional Commission on Genetic
Resources in Food and Agriculture

18. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Agro-biodiversity - Promoting international actions
 GFAR & International Treaty now formally
linked in sustainable use of agrobiodiversity
& technology transfer – Bali ITPGRFA
Governing Body 2011 & Rio+20
 Diversity for Development – collective
action on under-utilized crops
 Beijing Science Forum with ISPC, 2011:
Biodiversity research challenges, issues of
functional scale required, invasive threats,
sustainable systems

19. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Partnerships in Action: LANDSCAPES
Rio+20 ARDD conference – new focus on landscape-based approaches and system
resilience
Integrating land and water management, forests, fisheries and alternative resource
uses – biofuels etc
 CRPs on Forests & Trees, Water & Land, CCAFS
 Catalyzing Association of International Centres for Research & Development in
Agriculture (AIRCA)
 Farmers & research together promoting Conservation agriculture in S Asia, Latin
America (APAARI, FORAGRO)
 Better water management & governance: CTA

20. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Livelihood-based approaches
 Welcome new CRPs that focus
collective actions on system-based
approaches
 SSA-CP innovation platform sites,
demonstrating livelihood changes
 Brazil-Africa and Brazil-Caribbean
Innovation Marketplaces
 ProLINNOVA and local innovation
 EFARD - PAEPARD and extension to
other regions

21. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets
 Producer-focused regional experiences
documented and shared
 Empowering Small Farmers Into Markets grew
out of GFAR initiative, now a wide range of
farmer-driven successes and learning
experiences
 Further mobilizing farmer organizations –
global actions now emerging from World
Farmer Organization and regional networks,
International Year of Cooperatives

22. Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact
Building concerted action on gender in agriculture through the GFAR
mechanism:
 CGIAR and FAO gender specialists – desire for collective action
 FAO & FARA – examining gender-based innovation priorities in Niger and use of
women’s community radio networks to share knowledge
 AARINENA – review of gender-related issues in 4 WANA countries
 FORAGRO – new study underway
 IFPRI – review of engendering agricultural innovation
 AWARD – strengthening M&E and outreach
 APAARI & ICAR – Global Conference on Women in Agriculture

23. First Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA),
New Delhi, 13-15 March, 2012
A global urgency to empower women to ensure household food and
nutrition security and inclusive growth in agriculture

24. Global Conference on Women in Agriculture
New Delhi, March 2012
• Key issues: access to resources and returns, reorienting
innovation systems to reduce labour, energy and time in
production, focus on value-addition post harvest, child nutrition
• Formulated 5 point Plan to ‘engender’ Agriculture & AR4D
systems
Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP)
• Open & inclusive partnership mobilizing actions across
many national, regional & international bodies
• Linking gender work of international agencies; CGIAR &UN
• Engaging national, regional and international bodies from all sectors
• Advocacy, knowledge sharing, connecting & triggering programmes
• Brought gender focus into Rio+20 & GCARD

25. AR4D Investments & Returns
GCARD 2010 called for a better system for tracking AR4D investments
 ASTI supported to establish a Global Baseline, working via Regional Fora
GFAR Berlin workshop January 2012
 Established links between diverse databases and analyses on state of investments around
the world e.g. ASTI,GDPRD, EIARD, OECD, G8-AFSI, FAO and Regional For a
 Product: integrated system now underway e.g. OECD-DAC indicators, G8-AFSI
Now linking with Economic Returns from investment:
 National analyses: Uruguay
 CGIAR analyses: ISPC & SPIA
Challenges:
 New metrics needed beyond gross productivity e.g. environmental value
 Major data gaps remain for advisory services & private sector

26. Roadmap: increasing investments
Public Agricultural R&D spending: Developing countries drive growth
Source: ASTI 2012

27. Roadmap: increasing investments
Public Agricultural R&D spending: Regional distribution and growth
Source: ASTI 2012

28. Roadmap: developing required capacities
Inter-regional Capacity Development & Research Partnerships in a changing global
economy
Facilitated through Regional Fora or institutional networks, reflecting the new skills required
 Europe-Africa e.g. PAEPARD
 INIAS Ibero-America
 Eurasian Centre for Food Security (Central Asia)
G20 MACS – advanced science now becoming linked with GFAR, CGIAR & GCARD process in
fostering international partnerships e.g.
 FAO Tropical Agriculture Platform
 Opening access to research and genomic data
 Data integration with GIS

29. Roadmap: developing required capacities
Capacities: connecting people and networks through GFAR & GCARD
 YPARD : Young Professionals rejuvenating AR4D
systems and creating attractive agricultural careers
 GCHERA: Agricultural Universities working together
to share experiences and transform education, also
through regional education networks and regional
fora linkages, e.g. RUFORUM & FARA, UNIBRAIN,
TEAM-Africa
 AGRIVIVO: networking AR4D professionals
 CSO-GARD: Networking civil society organizations
active in innovation systems

30. Roadmap: developing required capacities
Sharing and Mobilizing Knowledge - CIARD
 Strengthening regional agricultural
information & learning systems
(RAILS) and National systems
 Opening Access – Coherence in
Information for AR4D (CIARD) creates
the collective frame enabling
information to be mobilized,
transformed and used
 CIARD RING now >4 million records
readily accessible between databases

31. Roadmap: developing required capacities
Bridging Knowledge Gaps:
Examples from the work of APAARI
Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD)
initiative in the region with the support of GFAR and FAO.
Workshop on CIARD and Strengthening RAIS in South Asia, Bangladesh
Workshop on ICM for Agricultural Innovation in Southeast Asia” in Thailand
Workshop on “Moving Beyond Strategy to Improve IKM for Agricultural
Development in the Pacific Islands Countries and Territories, Fiji Islands
Workshop on Openness in Agricultural Information and Knowledge Sharing, New
Delhi
Strengthening Regional Agricultural Information Systems /RAILS
Status Report on ICT/ICM in AR4D in the Asia-Pacific Region
Success Stories on Agricultural Information and Knowledge for All in the Asia-Pacific
Region
Development of database of institutions and experts to provide access to existing
ARD Institutions/Scientists. Training programs relating to ICT/ICM

32. Roadmap: developing required capacities
The New Roles of Extension: GFRAS
Strengthening of advisory services, GFRAS:
GFAR, FAO , BMGF, AFAAS & Neuchatel group catalyzed collective global action to mobilize and
strengthen rural advisory services
Together established the Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services
Continued support has seen GFRAS mobilize regional actions around the world:
 Learning and sharing best practices –international conferences Nairobi, Delhi
 Working directly to strengthen innovation brokers transforming knowledge into field use
 Learning from experiences on what is required of ‘New Extensionists” in innovation systems
 Advocacy for change based on best practices

33. Better Linking Research into Development Policies and Commitments
Presently only 4/24 African Poverty Reduction Strategies include agricultural research
focus
 GCARD 2010: Farmers identified CAADP as the essential mechanism for CGIAR
engagement in Africa
 FARA manages implementation of CAADP Pillar 4 – agricultural productivity
 2011 Zurich process supported by GFAR, then Dublin process direct links CGIAR in
support of CAADP aims and country compacts
 G8 New Alliance 2012 and public-private linkages: Grow Africa & PANAAC
Inspired CACAARI – first regional framework developed for agricultural research for
development

34. Protracted crises
How can agricultural knowledge and innovation better help rebuild communities
shattered by crises?
25 States now considered in protracted crises, most in Africa. Recent wars have
decimated AR4D systems elsewhere e.g. Iraq, Sierra Leone
Practical application of outcomes from Committee on Food Security and past work of
e.g. ICARDA:
Kigali Movement established August 2012
 Rebuilding trust and knowledge systems, from informal to formal
 Examining what we can learn from successful experiences of growing out from
conflict

35. Where we are now
 In last 2 years GFAR has catalyzed many actions
delivering to the GCARD Roadmap principles
 CGIAR reform provides a change–enabling
environment for collaboration and wider reform
 Research is essential, but not itself sufficient to
deliver impact
 Achieving impacts requires our continued efforts
together and commitment to practical actions
 GCARD 2012 is your opportunity to set out your
own commitments
 The time for action is NOW

36. THANK YOU!