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The GCARD2010 Program at a Glance: Themes, Aims, and Intended Outputs

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Day 1 (28 March):  ‘Reshaping the future of agriculture together’

A high-level dialogue, focusing on changes and actions required by global, regional and national institutions for agricultural research to have greater development impact for the poor.

Aims:

Translate commitments from recent high level summits, including L’Aquila, into actions required to strengthen national agricultural research for development systems in the developing world.

Drive reform and reorientation of agricultural research systems and innovation pathways around the world to meet the demand for improved livelihoods of resource-poor farmers.

Outputs from the Meeting

Perspectives from representatives of governments, major intergovernmental agencies, research institutions, civil society, development banks and donor agencies that set the scene for the need to:

  • Increase and improve investment, both financial and human capital, in agricultural research and innovation for development
  • Improve collaboration and partnership globally, especially North-South and South-South, among nations and Institutions in agricultural research for development
  • Enable greater sharing of information, knowledge and skills globally related to agricultural research for development
  • Strengthen the inclusion of all stakeholders, especially farmer representatives, in decision making and governance related to agricultural research at National, Regional and Global levels

Day 2 (29 March): What are the challenges we need to address?

Intended outputs from the day:

  • Region-by-region analysis of the needs, challenges and barriers to agricultural development for the poor that can be met through the generation, access and use of agricultural knowledge;
  • Open discussion and inter-regional dialogue on common themes and needs identified around the world; and
  • Analysis and discussion of the current status of the world’s agricultural research for development systems and what needs to be addressed for these to be more effective and better driven by development demands.

Day 3 (30 March): What do we need to do better? Strengthening the impact of agricultural research in development

Intended outputs from the day:

  • Presentation and feedback discussion of the proposed Strategic Results; Framework and proposed collective actions identified by the CGIAR as a basis for increasing development outcomes at scale; and
  • Discussion of key strategic changes required in the functions and roles of agricultural research systems at national and international levels for these to contribute more effectively towards development impact

Day 4 (31 March): Development of a roadmap for collective action

Intended outputs from the day:

Plan developed for specific measures and actions required over the next few years to enable research to deliver more effective impact for the poor through strengthening and transforming agricultural research for development:

  • Cross-cutting discussion to refine the outcomes of the previous day’s sessions;
  • Refining and populating pathways that will transform AR4D over the next 6 years, with desired collective actions identified through the working groups concerned; and
  • Opportunity for specific commitment by individuals and institutions to new agendas, actions and transformative codes of conduct between diverse AR4D partners.