To coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original ‘Farmer First‘ event and a time of renewed interest in agriculture for development, the Future Agricultures Consortium in association with the STEPS Centre at Sussex hosted an international workshop, ‘Farmer First Revisited‘, at IDS from 12-14 December 2007. The aim of the workshop was “to reflect on past successes, failures and missed opportunities,” to address questions and new challenges, such as “the radically changed contexts facing poor farmers in the developing world today – including increasingly globalised and vertically integrated agri-food systems, changed configurations of public and private R&D, and new governance arrangements affecting innovation systems – how should the challenges and priorities of farmer participation in agricultural research and extension be seen in the 21st century?” (Farmer First website)

 

Source:  Farmer First website: http://www.future-agricultures.org/farmerfirst/