Co-operative Research Programme for Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems

It does this through facilitating international co-operation among research scientists and institutions, by sponsoring international events (conferences, workshops) and individual research fellowships, placing a policy emphasis on all the activities it funds. It focuses on global issues such as food security, climate change, and the inter-connectedness of economies through trade and scientific co-operation.

The CRP aims to strengthen scientific knowledge and provide scientific information relevant for the future policy decisions related to the sustainable use of natural resources in the areas of food, agriculture, forests and fisheries. International co-operation in these fields has become increasingly important as food production systems are increasingly globalized. The CRP achieve its objectives:

• By funding fellowship awards from 6 to 26 weeks for individual scientists in other CRP member countries;
• By sponsoring events (conferences or workshops).

Objectives

• Helps achieve globally agreed policy objectives by facilitating international co-operation among research scientists and institutions.
• Places a policy emphasis on all the activities it funds.
• Focuses on global issues such as food security, climate change and the inter-connectedness of economies through trade and scientific co-operation.
• Promote co-ordination among stakeholders to ensure that their objectives do not overlap or contradict each other
• Provide objective evidence of the possible outcomes of approaches and options
• Support the definition of measurable policy objectives (e.g. the incorporation of soil security into national law)
• Highlight the links between agriculture and diverse policy areas (e.g. the role of education in ensuring food security and sustainability).

Themes

• Theme 1: Managing natural capital to help ensure the availability and quality of natural resources.
• Theme 2: Strengthening resilience in the face of multiple risks in a connected world to help anticipate, pre-empt, and cope with potential and real impacts on agricultural systems and food security.
• Theme 3: Transformational technologies and innovation to make it possible to achieve progressive changes.

Eligibility Criteria

• They welcome applications from anyone interested in organising an event (conference, workshop or symposium) on state-of-the-art research issues in agriculture, food, fisheries or forests or who would like to spend time working with researchers in another country.

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