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Robin Bourgeois at GFAR Webinar ‘Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards change’, 27.06.2018

GovInn’s Senior Researcher Robin Bourgeois participated in the GFAR Webinar ‘Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards change’.

As part of its series of webinars, GFAR Secretariat is bringing together foresight practitioners and others interested in foresight for agriculture and rural development. They will engage on the role of foresight in proactive and participatory decision making, and in improving attitudes towards change in order to realize effective agriculture and rural development programmes.

 

 

Link to Robin’s presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnv7epRFNbs&feature=youtu.be

Link to the overall webinar broadcast: https://www.slideshare.net/gcard/beyond-decision-making-foresight-as-a-process-for-improving-attitude-towards-change

General information about the webinar:  https://blog.gfar.net/2017/06/07/gfar-webinar-beyond-decision-making-foresight-as-a-process-for-improving-attitude-towards-change/

GFAR Webinar- Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity Between the Informal and Formal Seed Systems, 30.05

As one of the series of GFAR webinars, GFAR Secretariat is bringing together several presenters to engage the agri-food research and innovation community around the topic of Farmers’ Rights, and especially how to achieve the complementarity between the informal and formal seed systems.

To learn more about how to achieve complementarity between the informal and formal seed systems, register today for GFAR webinar: Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity Between the Informal and Formal Seed Systems. Presenters will share how this complementarity is been achieved and identify some obstacles that still need to be addressed; and an expert will share how holistic policy and legal measures are also needed, identifying their relevant elements and sharing national examples. Desired outcomes of the webinar include to i) distill information and best practices that can be applied to strengthen the complementarity between the informal and formal seed systems at national level and ii) motivate participants to work together by strengthening partnerships and collective actions, according to their own unique roles.

Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity Between the Informal and Formal Seed Systems

  • Date: 30 May 2017
  • Time: 15:00 Rome time (GMT+2)
  • Duration: 2 hours max
  • Registration open

More information and registration: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/05/10/gfar-webinar-farmers-rights-achieving-complementarity-between-the-informal-and-formal-seed-systems/