FAO's Office of Innovation presents the webinar Capacity development for agricultural innovation systems (AIS) mainstreaming and investments through the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) - Side event of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022 - 13 October 2022 From 15:00 to 16:30 CET (Rome) To register, please click HERE<https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rqc_ALnvRE2BbT8me57cQw> To unleash countries' and regions' potential for agricultural innovation, their human and institutional capacities need to be strengthened, and investments in capacity development (CD) for agricultural innovation systems (AIS) need to be scaled up. This side event aims to share successful examples of the partners of the TAP, a global, multi-stakeholder facilitation mechanism on CD for AIS, supported by the European Union and coordinated by FAO. The event will introduce the TAP approach of CD for AIS at the individual, organizational, and policy levels. Country/regional experiences in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, as well as insights from regional organizations on evidence-based policy dialogue and investments in agricultural innovation, will be presented. AGENDA: 15:00 - 15:15 | Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) - Introduction: * Max Olupot, TAP Chair, African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) * Christophe Larose, Head of sector: Sustainable Agriculture; INTPA F3, European Commission (EC) * Selvaraju Ramasamy, Head of TAP Secretariat, FAO 15:15 - 15:50 | Facilitated discussion - Regional experiences on strengthening capacity of agricultural innovations systems: * Ibrahim Abdulrazak, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) * Fernando Manzo Ramos, Latin American Network for Rural Extension Services (RELASER) * Ravi Khetarpal, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) 15:50 - 16:25 | Evidence-based policy and investments on agricultural innovation: * Viviana Palmieri, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) * Helena Posthumus, AGRINATURA - DeSIRA LIFT Project * Louis-Marie Kakdeu, African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) 16:25 - 16:30| Concluding remarks: * Guido Bonati, TAP Vice-Chair, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) We hope you join us at the webinar, and please feel free to circulate this invite within your network! ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SMALL-FARMS-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/scripts/wa-fao.exe?SUBED1=SMALL-FARMS-L&A=1