government delegates / co-chairs Hans Herren and Judy Wakungu, UNEP Director Achim Steiner, IAASTD Director Bob Watson / dancing after adoption / official IAASTD logo. More pics
Download
the Global Report, Synthesis report and the five sub-regional reports
Texte
und Materialien zum Weltagrarbericht auf Deutsch
printed
versions of the reports are available at www.Islandpress.orgThe
international and the regional Summaries for Decisionmakers
in 6 UN languages, press releases and a media advisory can be
downloaded from the
official website of the IAASTDThe best
overview is probably the International Synthesis
Report
Full reports as adopted 
Summaries
of the Report in English,
French,
Spanish
and 
Dutchpresentation
by Robert T. Watson at UNEP in Washington D.C. March 3 2009
audio
file of the presentation, also with Shelley Feldman (Cornell) and Mary Hendrickson
(Univ. Missouri)
Guidance
in a Time of Crisis: IAASTD and the Human Right to Food
Message from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier de Schutter
UN CSD, New York, February 25th, 2009
Issue Briefings
The IAASTD has produced a series of Issue briefings, which
you can download here:
6
page summary leaflet Food
Security in a Volatile World Multifunctional
Agriculture Trade
and markets Human
Health and Nutrition Food
Safety, Plant and Animal Health The
Role of Institutions Bioenergy
and Biofuels
News Digest
Selected
articles in media and presentations
NGO papers
Joint
press statement of participating NGOs: A
new era of agriculture begins today
Pesticide
Action Network media advisory, website, background material
Pesticide
Action Network Agroecology
and Sustainable Development, Findings from the UN-led International Assessment
of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development, 4 p. Briefing,
May 2009
Greenpeace
recommendations to G8 ag ministers meeting April 2009: Agriculture
at a crossroads
Third
World Network: Rethinking
Agriculture, a summary, March 2009
UK
Food group, Agriculture at a Crossroads: Implementing
the findings of the international agriculture assessment - IAASTD, 30 October
2008
A
New paradigm for agriculture? At the"Planet
Diversity" Congress on the future of food and agriculture a wor
kshop
on the results of the IAASTD was held, which provided a diversity of useful
papers
Greenpeace
International press release 15 April 2008
NGO
contacts on IAASTD are
here
Pictures
of the final plenary in Johannesburg in low quality are available here
Background papers
Presentation
of key findings of the IAASTD by Robert T. Watson at the United nations
Economic and Social Council,July 2008
Ministère Française de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche:
L’IAASTD : une expertise internationale qui marque un changement de paradigme
pour l’agriculture et le développement
InfOGM: Les biotechnologies
modernes ne sont pas adaptées aux petits agriculteurs
Agriculture
at a crossroads: a summary of the IAASTD findings by Patrick Mulvany
in Agriculture for Development, 3 2008
22
key findings of the IAASTD at a glance (short version)
Five
page briefing and overview with quotes (from Greenpeace)
International
Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES): The
IAASTD report and some of its fallout
a personal note by IAASTD author Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, ETH Zurich, Institute
of Integrative Biology, Zurich, Switzerland
Institute
of Development Studies: Global
Engagements with Global Assessments: The Case of the International Assessment
of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD),
by Ian Scoones, November 2008
Charts and tables
A
selection of charts and tables from the IAASTD are available at UNEPs
GRID Arendal collection of charts and graphics (see examples on the right)
What
is the IAASTD?
A United Nations process to identify the best available
and newly needed science, technology and knowledge to answer the question above.
Initiated by the World Bank in Johannesburg in 2002 this process started with
regional consultations in eleven regions of the world and was endorsed by a
Steering Committee of 40 representatives of governments and civil society in
2003. It was co-sponsored by the World Bank, UNEP, FAO, UNESCO, UNDP, WHO. Upon
the request of an intergovernmental plenary in September 2004 in Nairobi more
than 400 carefully selected scientists and experts produced a global and five
sub-regional assessments as well as a Synthesis Report which have been reviewed
in two consecutive rounds by hundreds of colleagues as well as institutions
and the public at large. The process was overseen by a multi-stakeholder Bureau
from governments and civil society.The Assessment was finally adopted by 58
participating governments in April 2008 in Johannesburg.
Signatory States: Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon,
People’s Republic of China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras,
India, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic,
Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Maldives, Republic of Moldova, Mozambique,
Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Republic
of Palau, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Swaziland, Sweden,
Switzerland, United Republic of Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey,
Uganda, United Kingdom of Great Britain, Uruguay, Viet Nam, Zambia,
Non-Signatory States (though with warm words of support): United States
of America, Australia, Cananda
IAASTD
2003 - 2007 Concept, options, key findings, where we are, how to get involved
a summary and overview by Teopista, Kevin Akoyi (Vredeseilanden), October 2007
download
same document as powerpoint presentation
All
about the IAASTD on three pages Presentation
on the IAASTD by Director Robert T. Watson (2006)
Structure 
The process is a UN multi governmental process, which means
the participating member states representatives make the final decisions and
adopt the final report. A multi-stakeholder Bureau of 60 persons representing
governments (30), civil society (22) and international institutions (8) has
been set up to oversee the process. 
The
Bureau elects 2 chairpersons and a Secretariat, controls the budget and agrees
upon the selection of experts and authors, facilitates the public outreach and
capacity building. The Chairpersons with the support of the Secretariat will
facilitate and organise the process.
Members
of the Bureau Terms
of Reference for IAASTD Bureau Budget
List
of Donors
Principles
and Procedures of the IAASTD process
Past Meetings:
2007
2nd public review of the Assessment
Drafts
of the International and subregional Assessments as well as the first draft
of the summary for decision makers (the document formally adopted by the participating
governments) were available for review until May 31 2007. They were substantially
improved as compared to their first versions.
Meeting of the Bureau in Washington D.C.
29 - 31. May 2007
decisions
of the bureau
2006
Meeting
of the Bureau in Costa Rica 1 - 4 November 2006
decisions
of the bureau presentation
of the Secretariat on the state of the development at the IAAST Burea Meeeting
First review of the Assessment
The first draft was open for review and comments until September
2006 and is now being re-written by the authors. A second draft will be online
in March 2007.
2005
IAASTD Bureau
Meeting in Montpellier
At its last meeting in Montpellier the Bureau of the
IAASTD adopted the outlines of the global and sub-regional assessments. The
revised global and remaining sub-regional outlines, the minutes of the Bureau
meeting, revised rules and procedures, timeline and budget are published at
the official web-site at www.agassessment.org.
List
of approved decisions of the Bureau picture
of participants high
resolution (big)
18 - 22 July Scenarios Workshop
Rome, Italy
Presentation
of Mark Rosegrant, IFPRI: Scenario
development for IAASTD
23-25 May Integrated (Global and Sub-Global)
design team, Montpellier, France
25-27 May Bureau meeting, Montpellier,
France
Minutes,
decisions, revised budget, revised global and sub-regional outlines, timetable
27-29 April Sub-global design
team Latin America and the Caribbean, San Jose,
Outline
of LAC Assessment
14-16 April Sub-global design
team North America/Europe, London, UK
Outline
of NAE Assessment
9-12 April, Sub-global design
team East/South Asia and the Pacific, Beijing, China
Outline
of ESAP Assessment
4-6 April Sub-global design
team Sub-Saharan Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Outline
of SSA Assessment
8-11 February Central and
West Asia and North Africa, Rabat, Morocco.
Outline
of CWANA Assessment
30 January - 3 February,
Global Design Team, Bangkok, Thailand
92 specialists participated in the meeting in Bangkok. A draft annotated chapter
outline was developed -- this draft will be available later this month for comments
after review by the Bangkok team.
Outline
and annotated Chapters of the Global assessment
Kick-off in Nairobi
The first meeting of the parties (governments), the 5 co-sponsoring
UN agencies and the World Bank as well as civil society representatives took
place at the UNEP headquarter in Nairobi from August 30 to September 3rd 2004.
The government representatives (45 countries present) decided to go ahead with
the Assessment. They agreed on the content and scope of the Assessment and adopted
outlines and procedures, a time-table and a baseline-budget of US$ 10,7 Mio.
A Bureau consisting of 30 government representatives, 22 representatives of
civil society and 8 representatives of international institutions was established
to oversee the process. The two co-chairs identified by the Bureau will be
Hans Herren and Professor Judi
Wakhungu, the Director of the Secretariat is Robert Watson.
Minutes
of the Nairobi Plenary 30. August - 3rd September
2003
A Steering Committee
of 40 representatives from governments, agencies, industry, farmers and other
rural producers, consumers, environmental and other NGO's produced a basic document
calling for the International Assessment.
Final Report of the Steering Committee for the Consultative Process
on Agricultural Science and Technology (12 August 2003):
English Arabic
Chinese
Spanish
French
Russian
Short
report on the final outcome by Benny Haerlin (August 2003) Reuters:
Green Light for Global Study on Food Security (August 2003)
Contacts to
NGO representatives and Bureau Members
Kevin Akoyi, (IAASTD CSO Bureau Member from Uganda)
Vredeseilanden, Email: kevinakoyim[at]yahoo.co.uk
Benny Haerlin ((IAASTD CSO Bureau Member from Germany)
Email: haerlin[at]zs-l.de, Phone: + 49 173 9997555
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD (Lead Author, Global Report)
Pesticide Action Network North America (in US)
Email: mie[at]panna.org, Office: +1-415-981-1771
Lim Li Ching (Lead Author, Asia report; note surname Lim)
Third World Network, Email: limliching[at]myjaring.net
Romeo Quijano, MD (IAASTD CSO Bureau member)
PAN Philippines, Email: romyquij[at]yahoo.com
Erika Rosenthal, LLD (Lead Author, Global & Synthesis Report;
Trade Theme)
Email: erosenthal[at]igc.org, +1-202-742-5846
Patrick Mulvany (IAASTD CSO Bureau Member)
Practical Action, Email: patrickmulvany[at]clara.co.uk
Juan Lopez Friends of the Earth International
Email: juanlopezvillar[at]gmail.com, Phone (Maputo): +258842420298
Jan Van Aken , Greenpeace Intl.
Email: jan.vanaken[at]int.greenpeace.org, Phone: +49 40 306 18-389
SPANISH-Speaking:
Luis Gomero (Lead Author, Latin America Regional report)
RAAA, Peru, Email: lgomero[at]raaa.org, Tel: +51 1 4257955
