*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
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CA.
*Amir Kassam *
*Moderator*
Plant Production and Protection Division
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Subject: [EGFAR newsletter] Agricultural Innovation Systems and Family
Farming - An
FAO E-mail Conference - June, 2012****
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Agricultural Innovation Systems and Family Farming - An FAO E-mail
Conference - June, 2012****
FAO is hosting a moderated e-mail
conference<http://www.fao.org/oek/research-extension-systems/ais-ff/econf/en/>from
4 June to 1 July 2012 on
*"Ensuring the full participation of family farmers in agricultural
innovation systems: Key issues and case studies"*.****
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The UN General Assembly has declared 2014 to be the International Year of
Family Farming and has invited FAO to facilitate implementation of the
International Year, in collaboration with its partners. Among its
initiatives for the International Year, FAO is planning to publish a major
study on family farming and Agricultural innovation systems (AIS) in 2014
in the State of Food and Agriculture series, which is FAO’s major annual
flagship publication.****
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Agricultural innovation systems are systems of individuals, organizations
and enterprises that bring new products, processes and forms of
organization into social and economic use to achieve food security,
economic development and sustainable natural resource management. AIS
include a multitude of potential actors, such as producer organizations,
research organizations, extension and advisory services, universities and
educational bodies, governments and civil society organizations,
co-coordinating bodies, individual farmers and farm laborers, and the
private sector (including traders, processors, supermarkets etc.).****
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The e-mail conference is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated.***
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The *Background Document* to this FAO e-mail conference is available
here<http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/an906e/an906e00.pdf>
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Meeting the needs of smallholder farming families also provides the central
theme of the GCARD
RoadMap<http://www.egfar.org/documents/gcard-road-map-transforming-agricultural-research-development-systems-global-impact>,
which sets out the systematic changes required to transform and strengthen
innovation systems to better meet the needs of resource-poor smallholders
around the world. Results from the FAO e-mail consultation will help
inform discussion in *The Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research
for Development (GCARD 2) <http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012>:* *“Foresight
and partnership for innovation and impact on small-holder livelihoods” *on
practical actions underway and that are required to implement these
systematic changes*. *The GCARD 2 will be organized in Punta del Este,
Uruguay, 29 October – 1 November 2012, more information is available
on the GFAR
website <http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012/pre-registration>. The
Pre-Registration <http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012/pre-registration> for the
GCARD 2012 Conference is now open.****
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Outcomes from the email consultation and the GCARD Conference will inform
preparation of the major FAO study in 2014, as well as help to build
cooperation around key forward-looking agendas and facilitate planning of
joint actions among all AIS stakeholders to deliver large scale development
outcomes.****
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*Together** we are shaping the future of agriculture* ****
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