1. PRGA Program Strategic Platform Phase III (2008-2012)

Currently facing its face III (2008-2012), the key factors that underpinned the Program’s work at the beginning of Phase II (2003–2007) still apply today:

* A majority of agricultural research systems, including in the CG System, still lack a critical mass of participatory-research and genderanalysis practitioners
* There is still little recognition or practice of gender analysis
* There is still an unmet demand for capacity development in gender-analysis and participatory-research methods
* Learning and change need to be institutionalized, so that participatory research and gender analysis can be mainstreamed in agricultural R&D thinking and practice.

To download:
PRGA Program Strategic Platform Phase III (2008-2012)

2. PRGA Program at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture Knowledge Sharing Week May 2009

During CIAT's Knowledge Sharing Week, held in Cali-Colombia from May 18-25, 2009; the PRGA Program and other CIAT Programs reflected on the concept of eco-efficient agriculture and formulated action plans for CIAT's future research. The PRGA Program participated in this important event with a poster on “Gender Implications of Climate Change for an Eco-Efficient Agriculture” and also presented the issue "Women, the Guardians of Biodiversity", supported with an interview made to the PRGA Program Coordinator, Patricia Biermayr.

3. Gender Mainstreaming Strategy at ASARECA

In April 2009, the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) held a consultative workshop to develop a gender mainstreaming strategy. The need for a gender strategy at ASARECA was underscored in previous gender specific initiatives in the organization. In particular, the collaborative initiative between PRGA and ASARECA helped to influence the process of gender mainstreaming in ASARECA to this level.

4. Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region

Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance
Edited By Francois Molle, Tira Foran and Mira Kakonen

'With a diverse set of authors from assorted countries and mixed walks of life, this book brings a grounded, radical and refreshing perspective to the study of water in the Mekong region, a field of research which too often descends into technological simplifications.'

5. Indigenising Development
Poverty in Focus # 17

Among the many social groups that have been historically excluded, indigenous peoples comprise one that offers great challenges to development. Although their assimilation has been a goal of the national societies that engulfed them,
it is disputable whether indigenous peoples desire the type of social inclusion that development, in its many forms, can produce. At the same time, development seems irreversible, and resistance to it might have consequences far more adverse than those brought by acceptance. The best way to overcome the challenges seems to be to indigenise development: to put it to work on behalf of indigenous peoples instead of putting them to work for a model of development that is not only alien to them but that frequently does violence to their culture.

6. International Symposium Innovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food - ISDA 2010
Montpellier – France, 28 June – 1 July 2010

Facing the crisis and growing uncertainties, can science and societies reinvent agricultural and food systems to achieve sustainability?

What current changes imply for research is a question that must be addressed collectively. This is why we invite you to join us in this symposium to reflect upon future choices, design appropriate scientific agendas, and help renew actions and policies so that innovation systems can better achieve sustainability.

More information:
http://www.isda2010.net/
Download First Announcement:
http://www.isda2010.net/content/download/2061/16588/file/ISDA%202010%
20First%20Announcement.pdf