Agricultural Innovation Systems and Family Farming – An FAO E-mail Conference
Submitted by Nedaa Amraish on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 21:56
FAO
is hosting a moderated e-mail conference from 4 June to 1 July 2012 on
"Ensuring the full participation of family farmers in agricultural
innovation systems: Key issues and case studies". Agricultural
innovation systems (AIS) 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-ordinating bodies, individual farmers and farm labourers, and the
private sector (including traders, processors, supermarkets etc.).
The e-mail conference will focus on the issues that determine whether family farmers can fully participate in, and benefit from, AIS. What are the key opportunities and hurdles for family farmers to engage in, and benefit from, AIS and what can policy-makers do to increase potential opportunities and remove potential hurdles? The e-mail conference will allow participants to discuss these issues, as well as to share case studies and lessons learned from practical experiences in agriculture (note, the term agriculture includes the crop, livestock, forestry, fishery and aquaculture sectors). The conference is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. A background document will be sent to subscribers before the conference begins.
To subscribe to the conference, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.fao.org with the following one line in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank):
subscribe AIS-L firstname lastname
Where firstname and lastname refer to the person's first and last name. For example, if the subscriber's name is John Smith, then the line should be:
subscribe AIS-L John Smith
The background to the e-mail conference is that 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 AIS in 2014 in the State of Food and Agriculture series, which is FAO’s major annual flagship publication. As part of the preparations for this study, FAO organised an Expert Consultation at FAO Headquarters on 19-21 March 2012 and is now hosting this moderated e-mail conference. The report of the Expert Consulation is available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/an761e/an761e00.pdf (120 KB). For more information, contact AIS@fao.org
The e-mail conference will focus on the issues that determine whether family farmers can fully participate in, and benefit from, AIS. What are the key opportunities and hurdles for family farmers to engage in, and benefit from, AIS and what can policy-makers do to increase potential opportunities and remove potential hurdles? The e-mail conference will allow participants to discuss these issues, as well as to share case studies and lessons learned from practical experiences in agriculture (note, the term agriculture includes the crop, livestock, forestry, fishery and aquaculture sectors). The conference is open to everyone, is free and will be moderated. A background document will be sent to subscribers before the conference begins.
To subscribe to the conference, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.fao.org with the following one line in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank):
subscribe AIS-L firstname lastname
Where firstname and lastname refer to the person's first and last name. For example, if the subscriber's name is John Smith, then the line should be:
subscribe AIS-L John Smith
The background to the e-mail conference is that 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 AIS in 2014 in the State of Food and Agriculture series, which is FAO’s major annual flagship publication. As part of the preparations for this study, FAO organised an Expert Consultation at FAO Headquarters on 19-21 March 2012 and is now hosting this moderated e-mail conference. The report of the Expert Consulation is available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/an761e/an761e00.pdf (120 KB). For more information, contact AIS@fao.org
Event date:
Monday, June 4, 2012 to Sunday, July 1, 2012
Country:
Italy
Contact email:
Institution:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
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