Nurturing life in the drylands of hope A compendium of speeches and presentations by William D Dar

Innovations and impacts from research are dependent on evolving alliances and new types of relationships among stakeholders in the research-for-development continuum involving science, business and society. International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs) play an important role by fostering synergies, dynamic partnerships and working through open and critical self analysis while securing collective agreement amongst partners. Stressing that facilitation of agricultural research partnerships at the global level are crucial to effectively respond to the challenges of poverty and food insecurity, this paper emphasizes that new innovations to strengthen existing partnerships and forge new ones, especially involving new or less vocal stakeholders, are essential