Ruben Echeverría on linking research and development cooperation
Channel: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Date: 24/09/2012

Interview__ The director of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) spoke at the Conference on Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural and Natural Resource Management (Tropentag), which this year had a focus on resilience in agriculture. Besides the achievements made in terms of resilience for food security, Ruben goes into how climate change has changed the design of research projects and how donors could make the collaboration with research institutions more efficient. One example mentioned is to leave more priority setting on the side of the research institutions -- as the authors of the forthcoming Platform synthesis paper on 'Donor Methods to Prioritise Investments in Agriculture Research and Development' recommend.

More information and full transcript available on the Donor Platform website: http://bit.ly/UxK5U2