Marginal areas and indigenous people priorities for research and action

The Global Forum for Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) is building collective actions to improve poor farmers’ livelihoods, including indigenous and other communities living in marginal areas, by enhancing the market value of forgotten foods and the crops from which they derive, intervening in supply chain bottlenecks and mobilizing small producers as co-innovators. By recognizing the rich local knowledge behind forgotten foods, GFAR members seek sustainable avenues for a community centred, pro-poor transformation of food systems and reorientation of research and innovation governance. For this, GFAR is co-ordinating a Collective Action on Forgotten Foods and a Manifesto for Forgotten Foods which explicitly calls for novel research and innovation systems.