Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems
OECD Conference Proceedings
This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15-17 June 2011, discusses a large range of experiences and approaches to AKS explores how to foster development and adoption of innovation to meet global food security and climate change challenges. The conference considered developments in institutional frameworks, public and private roles and partnerships, regulatory frameworks conducive to innovation, the adoption of innovations and technology transfers, and the responsiveness of AKS to broader policy objectives.
Foreword and Acknowledgements
The title of this conference on Agricultural Knowledge System (AKS) may be clear to its attendees, but not necessarily to the general public. In simplest terms, this meeting is about innovation and will address the ways in which innovation can help secure adequate supplies of food in agriculture, feed and fuel over the course of the coming decades, and how governments and policymakers can achieve this in a sustainable way.