The event will take place online and be hosted in Belgrade, Serbia between 1 and 3 December, 2021. Side Events are planned to take place on November 30th. The Annual meeting is co-organized by the Institute for Science Application in Agriculture, Serbia (IPN/ ISAA) and the South Eastern Europe Advisory Service Network (SEASN).
Objectives:
- Understand how Rural Advisory Service (RAS) practices can respond to limitations imposed by COVID-19 restrictions;
- Discuss how agroecology can support reconstruction of value chains, and how RAS can support upscaling agroecology;
- Understand the role of digital tools in supporting these processes, and assessing what we have learned since the start of the pandemic.
30/11 Side Event: The Tropical Agriculture Platform towards the Future Advisory Services and Agroecology
Organizer: Rural Advisory Services for Southeast Asia (RAS-SEA)
Agriculture in tropical regions has a unique agro-ecology and socio-economic
impact on the community. Unprecedented changes related to nature and human
activities have affected the agri-food value chains. Considering the challenges of
agriculture in the tropics, RAS-SEA organizes an event to share the idea and
social innovation on transformation of agriculture/rural advisory services in the new
normal era and fast development of digital technology. All stakeholders should
have a clear vision for the future of agriculture/rural advisory services. The
question is:
- How TAP as a platform can assist farmers, female farmers, and youth to meet their needs?
- How could extension and advisory services become more professional, sustainable, and agro-ecology oriented?
30/11 Side event: : Extension and Advisory Services Competencies - Research Results & Implications
Public and private extension and rural advisory services are key to sustainable
agriculture, resilient livelihoods, and inclusive growth. The Global Forum for Rural
Advisory Services (GFRAS) has called for “the new extensionist” (Davis &
Sulaiman, 2014), emphasizing the functional competencies needed to help
clientele cope with complex challenges such as climate change and nutrition.
However, the effectiveness of the GFRAS New Extensionist Learning Kit (NELK)
learning has never been measured. Researchers thus analyzed learning outcomes
of NELK learners globally, as well as their digital readiness, and the links between
level of digital readiness and learning outcomes
02/12 Session 2: Agroecology - Acquiring new relevance and a path to reconstruct a post-COVID-19 agriculture
- Ricardo Borsatto, UFSCar: Agroecology - Challenges when promoting agroecology via Rural Advisory Services: a case-study in Brazil
- Nagy Anikó, NAK: Practical tools for rural advisors to become facilitators of essential agroeconomical development processes such as short food supply chain or agroecology
- Miguel de Porras, FiBL Europe: Agroecology and Living Labs, the ALLReady project
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