الدكتور Olawale Olaniyan
Sustainable management of agricultural genetic resources to ensure food security
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Sustainable management of agricultural genetic resources to ensure food security
In the developing countries, framing of science-policy issues is one of the major barriers. Sometimes, the way such issues are presented implies different interpretations across the stakeholder categories. In meetings for policy dialogues, representatives of local farmers' association are usually invited and hence physically present. However, they are brought together under the same roof with scientists and other knowledge holders who will make presentations about what they supposedly know. For mutual learning and exchange of ideas on food systems related policy, it would be good if farmers' representatives are also given equal chance to make their views known through a similar structure of presentation.
الدكتور Olawale Olaniyan
This is an important document and seems to be coming at the right time when clarifications are needed concerning the term "smale-scale livestock". Clarity of the nuances relating to various systems of livestock is highly desired from many perspectives - policy, decision-making, economics and practice. I therefore commend the authors and the people behind this initiative.
Meanwhile, kindly consider changing some information already presented as texts in this document to tables. Also, farmers and pastoralists were presented to mean different groups in this document. It would be great to reconsider these two groups as not uniquely different but as rather intertwined groups of people. Some pastoralists are also farmers, it can be said.