In the lead-up to the FAO Science and Innovation Forum (17-21 October), the side-events offered an opportunity for Members and partners to present their insights on science, technologies and innovations that can drive food systems transformation.
Oct.12 Can communities of policy practice spur innovation? Informing national food systems transformations
This session was part of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum and organized by the CGIAR Research Initiative on National Policies and Strategies on October 12. This session explored the informal and formal ways researchers can involve communities of practice as social learning spaces that can transform food systems by providing novel spaces for researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders to share and generate knowledge through conversation, network building and joint activities.Oct.12 Informing the Future through Foresight and Metrics for Food, Land and Water System Transformation
Awareness is growing in the research and development community of the interconnections between food, land, and water systems. We also recognize that jointly managing systems transformation under climate change and uncertainty can achieve more sustainable, equitable, and resilient development. Yet transformation means moving from our current state to a fundamentally different state in the future. What is that desired future state, and what actions are needed to get there?
This event outlined how innovative use of data, state-of-the-art foresight analytics, and deep and ongoing dialogue with national, regional, and global partners – with particular focus on poor and vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries – can offer better insights into alternative future transformation pathways to inform choices and sharpen decision-making today.
Oct.12 The role of research organisation networks in supporting innovation for food systems transformation
Organisers: Agrinatura, Ruforum, CiradINRAE, Cirad and IRD co-organized and participated in 6 FAO Science and Innovation Forum side-events.
A strong Research and Innovation agenda will be foundational for the co-creation of impactful Food System Transformation (FST) pathways. There are several national, regional and global strategies within which FST will occur, critical domains to enable FST have been identified, and a stakeholder-driven process from the formation of goals to the final assessment of FST pathways and their trade-offs will be needed. The role of research organisation networks to support innovation for FST is multiple.
This webinar will analyse where the focus of research organisation networks and of network of networks should be to support and promote innovation for FST.
- STEPHEN ONAKUSE - AGRINATURA PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK (UCC)
- FLORENCE NAKAYIWA - RUFORUM-DEPUTY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
- MAMADOU GOITA - INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND PROMOTION OF ALTERNATIVES IN DEVELOPMENT
- ISABELLE VAGNERON - CIRAD, FOOD SYSTEMS ASSESSMENT PROJECT
- BART DE STEENHUIJSEN PITERS - WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH (WUR)
- IOANNIS DIMITRIOU - SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (SLU)
Microbiomes, communities of microorganisms in a specific habitat and their functional traits, play a key
role in maintaining life on Earth by providing a range of essential ecosystem services. They are indispensable for the functioning and health of plants, animals and humans.
role in maintaining life on Earth by providing a range of essential ecosystem services. They are indispensable for the functioning and health of plants, animals and humans.
The huge potential of microbiomes to improve food systems along the complete chain of production and strengthen the circular biobased economy is just beginning to be understood and brought into action.
The MicrobiomeSupport consortium has analysed gaps and elaborated recommendations to successfully seize the opportunities of microbiome innovations to support the transition to sustainable and healthier agri-food systems.
- Tanja Kostic (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology): Paving the Microbiome Way for Improved Food Systems – MicrobiomeSupport legacy
- Annelein Meisner (Wageningen University & Research): Futureproof microbiome research needs a systems approach
- Yolanda Sanz (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC): Regulatory framework requirements to support the implementation of microbiome innovations
- Martin Wagner (Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation, FFoQSI): Educational needs in microbiome R&D landscape
- Emmanuelle Maguin (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, INRAe): Strategic R&I agendas for future microbiome activities and applications
- Lene Lange (LL-BioEconomy) Improved food security and health by using microbiome insight in the valorisation of residues and sidestreams
Oct. 12 Collective Scientific Assessments (ICSA): a key tool for bridgning the gap between science and policy
This session will present ICSA’s methodology, process and expected results. Researchers and end-users’ testimonies on recent ICSA (such as Small-scale fisheries in Haiti – 2022, Impact of pesticides on biodiversity and ecosystem services - 2022) will be shared and discussed to point out what make ICSA science-policy interface work (or not).
More information on : IRD’s scientific collective assessments + INRAE’s scientific collective assessments
- Dr Guy RICHARD, INRAE, Directorate for Collective scientific assessment, Foresight and Advanced Studies (Moderator)
- Ludovic MOLLIER, IRD and Catherine DONNARS, INRAE - ICSA’s methodology, process and end-results
- Dr Gilbert DAVID, IRD Researcher, scientific coordinator of the ICSA on “Small-scale fisheries in Haiti”
- Dr Laure MAMY, INRAE Researcher, scientific coordinator of the ICSA on “the impacts of pesticides on biodiversity and ecosystem services”
- Dr Karine BOQUET, MTECT, French ministry for ecological transitions, deputy-director
- Dr Marion BARDY, MASA, ministry for agriculture and food cares, deputy-director
"With the“Collective Scientific Assessment” we found out that we lacked research evidence on the impact of bio pesticides on the environment and biodiversity" - Laurent MERISIER, Programme coordinator, Direction of Fishing and Aquaculture (DPAQ) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural resources, and Rural Development of Haiti (MARNDR) - tbc
- Nastasia KEURMEUR, Environmental specialist, former - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Stephane RAUD, IRD, Director of Collective Scientific Assessment and Consulting
Oct. 13 Quality of Research for Development (QoR4D) to Strengthen Institutional Innovation
Accelerating transformation of food, land, and water systems under climate crisis requires institutional innovations. The Quality of Research for Development (QoR4D) framework facilitates CGIAR System-wide agreement on what constitutes “quality” for problem-oriented research designed to have impact. Experience demonstrated that R4D criteria should extend beyond conventional research output or impact metrics (e.g., peer-reviewed publications and their citations) and should include relevance, scientific credibility, legitimacy (which includes local acceptance), and effectiveness. QoR4D was co-designed using a consultative process and involving representatives from entities across CGIAR leading or assessing research quality.The virtual Side Event “QoR4D to Strengthen Institutional Innovation” was held during FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022, and explored how QoR4D can strengthen different levels of institutional innovations as it supports good governance in CGIAR and AR4D organizations.
Oct. 13 City Food and Climate Action: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Urban Foodsystems
In this FAO Science and Innovation Forum side event, city representatives from Nairobi and Lima, and scientists across the international research community, showcased positive examples of how science, policy, and investment can better synergize to address key urban food system challenges in a climate crisis, including cost of healthy diets, food safety, organic waste management, and water scarcity.
Oct. 13 Strengthening agricultural innovation systems: learning from past and
present research interventions
Organiser: Agrinatura, DeSIRA
The webinar will reflect on challenges, experiences and lessons learnt from the DeSIRA projects, as well as from past projects such as CDAIS and PAEPARD. The webinar will shed light on promising new patterns of research partnerships to generate more long-term outcomes in countries. Specific challenges for making research work for food system transformation will be discussed in a panel mode.
Introduction to the session
- Helena Posthumus (DeSIRA-LIFT) – moderator + Renaud Guillonnet Institut Agro Montpellier
- EU on-going initiatives related to AIS strengthening Guy Faure (DG-INTPA)
Setting the scene
- How research partnerships can contribute to AIS strengthening: lessons from CDAIS project Aurélie Toillier (CIRAD)
- New patterns of research partnerships Farmers Organizations Leading Research & Innovation on agroecology for sustainable food systems Aleksandra Parcinska (Agricord) / Felipe Johnatan Alessio (Cresol Instituto): FO-RI DeSIRA project
- Living Labs: working with partners from outside the formal research community (including those from the private and voluntary sectors) [ Raphaël Duboz (CIRAD): Santé et territoires DeSIRA project
- Research-policy partnerships: bringing science-based evidence into policy for broad scale systemic changes Aristide Sempore (FAO): TAP-AIS DeSIRA project in Burkina Faso
Panel : Challenges and way forward to make research work for AIS strengthening
- CIRAD / Sélim Louafi: Developing research partnerships with social impacts: an institutional perspective from CIRAD
- FARA / Aggrey Agumya: Enhancing research infrastructure conducive to innovation in Africa: the leveraging role of FARA
- DeSIRA-LIFT / Aurélie Toillier: Creating a global on-demand support service offering for enhancing R&I projects’ capacities to manage for impact: the challenges of the DeSIRA-LIFT facility
- DG INTPA / Guy Faure: Using evidence for programming and policy making at the EC
Oct. 13 Responsible digital agroecology, from farm to fork
Organiser: Cirad, INRAEIntroduction
Genome editing is among the most promising and innovative technologies to help optimise and sustain agricultural breeding towards enhancing African value chains and food systems to accelerate industrialisation on the Continent. The side event brings together policy makers, researchers, practitioners, businesses and partners to show-case and share insights on genome editing innovations by selected leading African scientists. The conversation is part of the efforts to support the expanded uptake of genome editing science to accelerate breeding and adaptation programmes in Africa’s agriculture and food systems. At the core of this conversation is the imperative and urgent need to leapfrog and optimise Africa’s agriculture and food systems performance along the CAADP-Malabo targets. The side event will also explore how to harness the genome editing technology in the African context for increased productivity, resilience, and adaptation to climate change as well as issues diets, mechanization, storage and food safety.- Pascal Bonnet, #DigitAg/CIRAD (Montpellier, FR)
- Jacob van Etten, CGIAR (Seville, SP)
- Chair : Jacob van Etten, CGIAR (Seville, SP)
- Shreya Agarwal, Digital Green (San Francisco, USA)
- Lini Wollenberg, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, and Gund Institute (Cali, CO)
- Carla do Nascimento Macario – Embrapa Digital Agriculture (Saõ Paulo, BR)
- Julien Sarron, CIRAD (Montpellier, FR) & Hamza Bendahou, Sowit (Paris, FR)
- Chair + Introduction: Hannah Wittman, U. of British Columbia (Vancouver, CA)
- Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Gueye, UCAD (Dakar, SN)
- Isabelle Piot-Lepetit #DigitAg/INRAE (Montpellier, FR)
- Jo Rodgers, Access Agriculture (Brussels, BE)
- Chair : Pascal Bonnet, #DigitAg/CIRAD (Montpellier, FR)
- Introduction: Laurens Klerkx, WUR (Wageningen, NL) / U. of Talca (Talca, CL)
- Daouda Hamadou, Novatech (Niamey, NE), Innovation cluster representative
- Ishmael Sunga, SACAU (Centurion, ZA), Farmer’s union representative
- Jérome Le Roy, President of La Ferme Digitale (Paris, FR), Private sector representative
- Doris Macquard, DG Agri (Brussels, BE), Policy makers’ representative
- Véronique Bellon Maurel, #DigitAg/INRAE (Montpellier, FR)
- Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief economist FAO (Rome, IT)
Oct. 13 Genome Editing Technology in Transforming Agriculture and Food Systems Value Chains in Africa
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Oct. 13 Side-Event by AARINENA
Oct. 13 CREATING EVIDENCE ON EXTENSION AND ADVISORYSERVICES (EAS): Measuring EAS performance and outcomes
This side event was organized by the GFRAS Regional Networks in Asia, Africa and Latin America (APIRAS, AFAAS and RELASER respectively) together with the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) with technical support from FAO’s Office of Innovation
Oct. 14 Innovations from Indigenous hunter-gatherers: A way of life in the forest by Indigenous Peoples
Oct. 14 Multidimensional agricultural extension to support innovation: Experiences and lessons on building African farmers’ resilience to global crises.
Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), in collaboration with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS)Through a process of inclusive decision-making, knowledge sharing, and skills and technologies provision through agricultural extension, innovations can enable food, nutrition, and income security for African smallholders as well as build their resilience.
Oct. 14 Circular Food and Agriculture Systems
This side event to the 2022 FAO Science and Innovation Forum explored circular bioeconomy systems, gave an overview of systems thinking, and the protocols of field crop and animal productions systems.
This session showcased examples about the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of the food and agriculture system. It discussed the role of soil, tools, good practice, and limitations to the transformation of this system.
The session was jointly hosted by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, the University of Illinois, Texas A&M University, the University of Florida, Michigan State University, and American University of Beirut.
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