Powerpoint presenation on basic concepts and definitions of Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS).

Powerpoint presentation on Global Partnership on Developing Innovation Capacities in Agriculture.

A poster on Capacity Needs Assessment displayed in simple steps.

Powerpoint presentation on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems - Toolkit for Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) at innovation niche partnership level.

Key tools for use in CNA at niche level:

- Timeline
- Problem tree/solution tree
- NetMap mapping
- Capacity assessment questionnaire } Action Planning

Powerpoint presentation on Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System. Training of Innovation Facilitators.

Kostas Stamoulis, FAO Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department, talks about the importance of women's empowerment and gender equality in rural communities, underlining the essential role of policy work.

Responding to global food crisis, such as imposed by climate change, requires resilient food systems that are able to respond to shocks. Resilience thinking, as an approach to agriculture development, focuses on enhancing the capacity of both the human and ecological systems inter alia. In this paper, the concept of resilience is approached from the perspective of socio-ecological systems dynamics. In particular, the study examined the contribution of farmers to research towards enhanced resilience of traditional African vegetable production systems in northern Ghana.

The brochure summarizes main features and goals of the EU funded CDAIS project, jointly implemented by FAO and AGRINATURA to support the TAP Action Plan.  

Approved by TAP partners, the TAP Work Plan 2016 describes the activities to be carried out in 2016 to achieve TAP's objective of promoting more coherent and effective capacity development interventions for agricultural innovation.