Presentations

Item 2. Climate change and agriculture:  what do recent policy developments mean for the CGIAR research agenda?   

• Presentation:  Koronivia work program elements and Agriculture in NDCs (Martial Bernoux, FAO)
• Presentation:  CCAFS – overview of work program in relation to Koronivia/NDCs demand (Bruce Campbell, CCAFS)
• Panel: Where are key opportunities for CGIAR? (Vincent Gitz, FTA; Graham Thiele; RTB)
• Open Discussion

Item 3. Future opportunities for the CGIAR

• Presentation (Marco Ferroni, Chair CGIAR System Management Board)

Panel: How the world in which the CGIAR operates is changing – Insights from ISPC Council members:

• Pathways from ag research to poverty reduction (Tom Tomich)
• Growing global recognition of importance of considering nutrition security (Patrick Webb)
• Speeding up crop breeding (Rodomiro Ortiz)
• Changing national priorities (Prabhu Pingali)
   

Item 4. Implications of SPIA evidence for CGIAR future research agenda on natural resource management and sustainable production systems

• Presentation: Outcomes from the workshop to refelct findings and ways forward (Karen Macours, SPIA Chair)
• Presentation:  Emerging results from FAO Agroecology Symposium and implications for research (Rodney Cooke, CIP)

Item 5. Planning for the 2018 ISPC Science Forum

• Presentation: Win more, lose less: Capturing synergies between SDGs through agricultural research (Preet Lidder, ISPC Secretariat)
• Panel (Jennifer Thomson and Holger Meinke, ISPC Council members; Leslie Lipper, ISPC Secretariat)