{"id":17503,"date":"2026-06-20T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/solid-participation-of-iita-at-gcard3\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:19:22","slug":"solid-participation-of-iita-at-gcard3","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/solid-participation-of-iita-at-gcard3\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid participation of IITA at GCARD3"},"content":{"rendered":"IITA had a strong presence at the recently concluded third\u00a0Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development<\/a>\u00a0(GCARD3), which took place in Johannesburg (South Africa), 5-8 April. The event was a global multi-stakeholder consultative dialogue with over 500 delegates from 83 different countries, which included representatives from development agencies, governments, civil society, and scientists, among others.\n
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Dr. Kwesi Atta-Krah, Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Agricultural Systems for the Humid Tropics during CNBC Africa interview.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nIITA<\/a>\u00a0was represented at GCARD3 by\u00a0Ylva Hillbur<\/a>, Deputy Director for Research and Development;\u00a0Kwesi Atta-Krah<\/a>, Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Agricultural Systems for the Humid Tropics;\u00a0Regina Kapinga<\/a>, Head of Advocacy and Resource Mobilization; and\u00a0Kristina Roing-de Nowina<\/a>, Head of the Proposal Development Office.\n\nThe event was organized around five main themes: Scaling-up: from research to impact, Showcasing results and demonstrating impact, Sustaining the business of farming, Ensuring better rural futures, and Keeping science relevant and future focused.\n\nIn reference to this last theme, Hillbur said that the ongoing CGIAR site integration will work towards ensuring that the science is kept relevant and future focused: \u201cThe site integration process will allow us to coordinate better our efforts at national level but also to align better with national priorities within requests from stakeholders to ensure that we keep science relevant\u201d, she said.\n\nWith the main theme \u201cNo One Left Behind: Agri-Food Innovation and Research for a Sustainable World\u201d, the GCARD3 global event also put youth at the center with a youth representation in the themes and panel discussions.\n\nAs Atta-Krah discussed in a\u00a0CNBC Africa interview (see below)<\/a>, \u201cOne key aspect of GCARD3 and which has been most revealing and exciting is the potential that is inherent in the young people (\u2026) the time when we used to consider youth as leaders of tomorrow is dead and buried. We now have to get to the point of realizing that it is our responsibility to engage the youth, involve them in all this business so that they can see themselves as leaders of now.\u201d\n\nAmong the 14 youth delegates at GCARD3, two were from IITA: Mariola Acosta, PhD Research Fellow at IITA-Uganda and Herve Bondonga, an IITA-DRC youth agripreneur. Apart from being the voice of the youth during the conference, the youth delegates attended a three-day intensive social media training and acted as social reporters giving a live coverage of the event through social media platforms,\u00a0blogs<\/a>,\u00a0Vid\u00e9os<\/a>\u00a0et\u00a0podcasts<\/a>.\n\nIITA was also part of the CGIAR collective exhibition that featured the various centers and research programs\/themes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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