IFAD Innovation Day

21-24 June 2022. Innovation Day is the first day of the IFAD '22 conference. The conference, entitled “Jobs, innovation and value chains during climate change: Bridging the gap between research and policy”, runs from 21-24 June.Innovation leaders from the public and private sectors, academia, civil society, research organizations, international financial institutions and the United Nations will gather to share knowledge and lessons learned on how to originate, ideate, pilot, test and scale up solutions that contribute to facing and solving some of the most pressing challenges in rural development and climate-change adaptation. Innovation Day will focus on how policy and public-private-partnerships can support and finance all stages of innovation.

In addition to the main plenary sessions, Innovation Day will feature side-events where innovative approaches and technologies will be presented in the form of demos, technical dialogues among experts and interactive discussions with the audience.
EVENT SITE + AGENDA - Register separately for the four side events:

• 10:00 – 11:30 Frontier technologies for land tenure REGISTER New technologies that have emerged in the past decade present new opportunities for land registry systems to facilitate land recordation and transactions more securely and efficiently, while increasing access and transparency, all in the interest of securing land tenure for small-scale farmers and other marginalised groups.
• 12:00 – 13:00 Government policies for innovation REGISTER Government policies can play a key role encouraging or constraining the development of innovations to increase rural income, employment, and adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. In this session innovators from NGOs and firms working in India, Indonesia, West Africa and East Africa will discuss the opportunities and challenges to innovators and the role that governments and donor organizations can play in supporting innovations and adoptions of innovations.   
• 14:00 – 15:00 Leveraging advanced analytics REGISTER The session will cover examples of innovations developed by partners international finance institutes for both portfolio systematization and knowledge management, and to better target operations and inform designs of new projects
• 16:00 – 17:00 Innovation and food systems REGISTER

Innovation and food systems

This side event on Innovation Day – the first day of the IFAD22 conference – will look into the role of innovation in nutrition-sensitive agriculture – a food-based approach to agricultural development that puts nutritionally rich foods and dietary diversity at the heart of overcoming undernutrition, overnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. The event will place special focus on the Mediterranean cuisine, as an example for a traditional healthy diet. An interactive panel will discuss the role of innovation in sustainable diets, and the importance of building on traditional knowledge in the context of climate transition. At the event, the Italian Network for the Euro-Med Dialogue RIDE will also announce their proposal to open a Center for Innovation, Higher Education and Scientific Diplomacy on Sustainability for Mediterranean youth and women located on Ponza Island (south of Rome, Italy).