People to feed: 6,767,137,400 at 1:30pm + 2/s…
…on July 2, 2009
Business as usual will not be sufficient to feed an additional 3 billion people 30 years from now - with less land -- with less water --- and less of everything else There is an urgent need for greater integration and coordination between all stakeholders. Towards a global system, a global agenda, a global governance…
One starts saying « it’s impossible » as an excuse not to try it, and then it becomes really impossible, just because we don’t try it. Charles Fourier (French philosopher, 1772-1837)
Montpellier, March 28-31 2010
In Maputo (Dec. 2008), the decision taken was to merge CGIAR’s AGM and GFAR’s meetings
AGM (annual) CGIAR
Triannual Conference GFAR
GCARD (bi-annual) GFAR CGIAR : Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research GFAR : Global Forum on Agricultural Research
GCARD’s main ambition/objective
To involve all stakeholders In the building Of a new global system Of agricultural research for development Strengthening GFAR Reforming the CGIAR
evolution@ARIs
evolution@NARS
GCARD process 2009
Global & Regional Reports
Consultations
GCARD Conference
6-year Consultation Cycle
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Committees • Task Force (GFAR, Regional Fora, FAO, IFAD, Alliance, CGIAR, France): orientations & decisions • International Working Group: organisation of regional consultations and syntheses, relations with LOC • Local Organizing Committee: responsability given by France to Agropolis International, Yves Savidan Chair
Organisation GCARD - A political (high level) event on Day 1 - A ÂŤ dialog Âť between stakeholders during days 2-4 Day 2 : Priorities emerging from the regional consultations Day 3 : Opening Science: new objects, new parterships, new LOC input with approaches, new scientists support from Agropolis Fondation Day 4 : Action Plan for the Global ARD System - Two permanent exhibitions: Development challenges in the Mediterranean subregion Training and Capacity Building - Others (optional) April 1st : lab visits in Montpellier preceding week : ancillary meetings/conferences
Day 3 suggested program WG « open science » : innovative research (content and/or operating mode), incl. research at the interface between groups of disciplines and between different sorts of knowledges. WG « participatory approaches » : agreement on their need, discussion around obstacles and constrains (evaluation criteria, financial incentives). WG « young scientists » : dialog North-South on innovation and integration in science. What should an ARD scientist look like in 2020?
Journée franco-européenne WG « Foresight » : several reports & studies available; where do they converge? Diverge (including on methods)? Can we design a common vision on what has to be done from these studies? WG « Emerging Economies » : expectations and possible roles of emerging economies in the global action plan, especially through South-South collaborations.
Exhibitions Mediterranean Sea : thematic – illustration of major global challenges (water, food, biodiversity, land use, emerging diseases, climate change, etc.) through concrete examples in the Mediterranean subregion. Training and Capacity Building : European TCB (tools & content) illlustrated by examples presented by students from the South - multi-partnership projects - daily events (dialogs with students)
French Working Groups 1st meeting
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION (TF, WG, GFAR, CGIAR, Alliance, etc.) Pre-proposal
Report#1 – ideas – on internet
OPENING SCIENCE Electronic consultation
1st half of July
On est ici 2nd meeting
Report#2 – pre program – on internet Electronic consultation
Program
End July, beginning August Invitations (speakers, moderators, rapporteurs, etc.) September Making of support elements
Main funding support, so far, has been given by the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council, and by Agropolis Fondation. The LOC currently works on complementary fund raising to support all activities presented in this slideshow.
The man who doesn’t have the means of his ambitions still has all the worries Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-PÊrigord (French politician and diplomat, 1754-1838)