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Million voices initiative
Citizen science to support agroecological transitions
The transformative partnership platform on agroecology (TPP) wishes to launch a bold citizen science campaign to involve smallholder farmers, farm workers and food consumers in generating knowledge to accelerate and document agroecological transitions. This has an initial 18 month time frame supported by SDC, starting with a launch at a UNFSS side event on 24th September 2021 followed up by a series of national and regional events in the ensuing six months to democratically decide what the focus of the citizen science initiative should be and then to implement activities over the following year that will engage at least a million people in generating new knowledge in support of agroecological transitions.
Agenda
EDT (UTC-4)
09:00-09:05 AM
Welcome and introduction
Michel Evequoz, SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation)
09:05-09:30 AM
Section 1 Showcasing citizen science in agroecology
- Introduction to session and point to collation of resources
Including iNaturalist, Farmer research networks and film festival (made by farmers on their mobiles); Farmshine; Farmer Field Schools, Earthwatch citizen science around soil health, World Vision report on citizen science and monitoring the SDGs, CESR presentation of human rights in the data revolution etc.
Fergus Sinclair, Chief Scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF and Co-convenor Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology - The Regreening Africa App (participatory monitoring of restoration)
Tor Gunar Vagen, Head of CIFOR-ICRAF Spatial Data Science and Applied Learning Lab - Highlights from the Forgotten Food Survey
Ms Irish Baguilat, Coordinator for UN Decade of Family Farming and Women Farmers’ Agenda, Asian Farmers Association - Agronomic citizen science example around democratising science
Jacob van Etten, Principal Scientist and Director of the Digital Inclusion research program at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT - Highlights from Digital Green
Krishnan Pallassana, Country Director, India
09:30-09:45 AM
Section 2 Critique of big data
- Presentation of a critique on the use of big data in agriculture – political economy perspective
Anna-Verena Nosthoff and Felix Maschewski at the Data Politics Lab at Humboldt University in Berlin - Comment on issues raised by these presentations for taking a citizen science initaitve forward to address agroecological transitions
Yodit Kebede, Post Doctoral Researcher at IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development)
09:45-09:55 AM
Section 3 The way forward
- Series of facilitated audience interactions to shape priorities for what might be included in the Million voices initiative
Mieke Bourne, Engagement Process Specialist, SHARED
09:55-10:00 AM
Summing up