3 June 2011
No. 1469
(From left to right) Lloyd Le Page, CEO of the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers; Marco Ferroni, Executive Director of Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture; and DG William Dar during the PPP workshop in Zurich, Switzerland.
Pursuing purposeful partnerships
ICRISAT shares PPP model in Zurich workshop Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are a progressive way of widening stakeholder access to innovations, enhancing product development and linking farmers to markets. By coming together, the private and public sectors are better synergized to address contemporary challenges related to poverty and food security in the developing world.
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iming to further strengthen ICRISAT’s publicprivate partnerships (PPP) to stimulate agricultural investment and innovation, DG William Dar joined a two-day high-level workshop on Public-private partnerships for agricultural innovation: removing the barriers held in Oerlikon, Zurich, Switzerland on 31 May – 1 June. Sponsored by the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), in association with the Consortium of International Agricultural
Research Centers and the Global Access to Technology for Development (GATD), the workshop brought together global experts and stakeholders to discuss options for the creation and launch of a PPP innovation platform. The said platform includes several fundamental elements to generate more productive and innovative PPPs such as linking and networking prospective partners; identifying innovative solutions that will support Intellectual Property Rights, enabling resource poor farmers to access proprietary technology and overcoming to page 2 ...4