Background document for the e-conference “Innovation systems for food security and nutrition: understanding the capacities needed”
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conference paper
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This paper provides background information and introduce the topics of the conference "Innovation systems for food security and nutrition: understanding the capacities needed". Organized by the Tropical Agriculture Platform, the conference aimes at bringing together the issues of capacity development, agricultural innovation, and food security and nutrition with the objective of developing recommendations for policy-making.
Publication year:
2016
Keywords:
innovation
agricultural innovation systems
food security
nutrition
capacity development
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The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) is the apex organization for agricultural research for development in Africa. The Forum encompasses all stakeholders, African and non-African, who are committed to enabling African agricultural development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 2 on "End Hunger, Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition and Promote Sustainable Agriculture." The current FARA strategic focus is on “Making Science and Innovation Work for Agriculture in Africa” and intends to re-assert FARA's position as a knowledge institution that contributes to raising the productivity, competitiveness and integration of African agriculture. This includes advancing the implementation of the Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (S3A) at country level. The S3A is the implementation framework for the Science, Technology and Innovation dimension of the post-Malabo CAADP Roadmap and Strategy and the agriculture and food security dimension of the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024).
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Ghana
Type of Organization:
Regional Organizations
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FARA
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Areas of activity:
capacity development assessment
Advocacy
Capacity development
Monitoring and evaluation
capacity assessment
capacity development impact assessment
Focus of Capacity Development:
Individual
Organizational
Institutional
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Geographical focus:
TAP partner
Acronym:
FARA
Type of Organization:
Regional Organizations
Website:
Country:
Ghana
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) is the apex organization for agricultural research for development in Africa. The Forum encompasses all stakeholders, African and non-African, who are committed to enabling African agricultural development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 2 on "End Hunger, Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition and Promote Sustainable Agriculture." The current FARA strategic focus is on “Making Science and Innovation Work for Agriculture in Africa” and intends to re-assert FARA's position as a knowledge institution that contributes to raising the productivity, competitiveness and integration of African agriculture. This includes advancing the implementation of the Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (S3A) at country level. The S3A is the implementation framework for the Science, Technology and Innovation dimension of the post-Malabo CAADP Roadmap and Strategy and the agriculture and food security dimension of the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024).
Areas of activity:
capacity development assessment
Advocacy
Capacity development
Monitoring and evaluation
capacity assessment
capacity development impact assessment
Focus of Capacity Development:
Individual
Organizational
Institutional
Location:
Enabling Capacities to Innovate with a System-wide Assessment Process
The sustainable intensification of agriculture to achieve food security is a complex challenge that requires technological and institutional change. The Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS ) concept is a strategic framework that takes a demand-driven, interactive approach to innovation in agriculture....
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Publication year:
2016Authors:
Delgermaa ChuluunbaatarSteven LeGrand 
