Round tables
Key stakeholders will share their practices and reflections on the challenges research is currently facing.
Find here the presentation of the three parallel round tables as well of the final round table.
Parallel Round Tables (Tuesday, June 29, 2:00 pm)
Organised by CIRAD and the World Bank -ARD
The objective of the IS Practitioners’ roundtable is to contribute to our understanding of how to promote and implement emerging approaches on agricultural innovation, with a specific focus on those applying an Innovation Systems perspective. Key experts and practitioners representing different institutional backgrounds, continents and thematic and operational perspectives, will share their experiences with introducing such approaches, and identify critical lessons learned about fostering agricultural innovation. The roundtable will address topics such as the inclusion and role in agricultural innovation of farmers' associations and other community-based organizations, private sector and NGOs, the role and manner in which knowledge brokers or multi-stakeholder platforms may contribute to innovation processes, as well as approaches and ways of reforming national agricultural research systems and of building capacity for agricultural innovation.
Innovation policies in the Mediterranean Region Organised with OECD, FIDA and ArimNet This Round Table will bring together senior agricultural and rural development Ministry and development agency officials and specialists from northern and southern Mediterranean countries and international organisations. They will discuss global and national policies that foster innovation for sustainable development in agriculture and food in the Mediterranean Region. Panelists will draw on practical experience and lessons from successful cases from the OECD, Turkey, France and Morocco, and address the following three questions. First, what are the main drivers and spaces of agricultural and rural innovation for sustainable development at the national, regional and global levels? Second, what institutions have been successful in mediating and promoting learning and innovation and what support do they need? Third, what governance frameworks are required to allocate resources and manage complexity effectively for innovation (e.g. participatory learning approaches, public policies, financing, and assessing impact). The panel session will conclude with some practical implications for better linking research and policy making processes and actors to foster innovation. - Facilitator : Karim Hussein (OECD)
- Chair : Khalid El-Harizi (IFAD)
- Gang Zhang (OECD - Science Technology and Industry Directorate)
- Mohamed Ait-Kadi (General Counsel for Agriculture, Morocco).
- Ahmet Yücer (General Directorate of Agricultural Research – Turkey)
- Claure Torre (AFD)
- Osama Momtaz (Egyptien, Responsable du groupe biotechnologie de AARINENA)
Regional dynamics of innovation
How can regions promote innovations in food and agriculture to address the issues of sustainable development? What regional initiatives illustrate the conditions and difficulties of this type of development? What are then the appropriate action modes? What are the consequences?
The round table “dynamiques de l’innovation en région et développement durable” will address these issues with the regional actors in research, government and socioeconomics. The theme “vines, wine and sustainable development” will be the thread of a discussion on the organizational, scientific and institutional implications of innovation for sustainable development.
Moderator: André Torre, INRA, director of the PSDR program “Programme inter-organismes de recherches pour et sur le développement régional”.
Testimonies:
· Jean-Marc Touzard, researcher in economy at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR Innovation. “Innover avant et pendant la crise : bilan d’expériences en viticulture languedocienne”.
· • Florence GRAS, quality consultant at the Institut Coopératif du Vin. “L’expérience cap sur le développement durable en coopératives viticoles”.
· Ghislain GREVY, director of the Qualimed competitivity pole. “Comment fédérer les forces des entreprises d’une région pour développer l’innovation ?” ».
· Miguel-Ange SOBAS, Anne PORTAL, technology counselors Transfert LR. “Témoignage d’une coopération entre entreprise et centre de transfert pour l’innovation (vigne et vin)”.
A regional perspective of sustainable development strategies:
· Conseil Régional du Languedoc-Roussillon: the regional strategy of innovation
· Testimony of another European region.
Final round table ( Wednesday, June 30, 3:00 pm) Innovation systems : links to be developped between research, policy and society? This roundtable will build on the discussions and exchanges of the three days. In a first moment, led by Bernard Hubert (Chairman of Scientific Committee), members of the Scientific Committee will report on each "hot topic": how were the questions of the symposium addressed ? What new issues are emerging? What prospects does this opens for research and development? In a second moment facilitated by Oliver Coomes (Professor at McGill University and Editor in Chief of World Development), representatives of different sectors will react to these reports and present their views on the way the relationships between research, policy and society ought to evolve to encourage innovation for sustainable development.
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Update: 27 June 2010
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