building partnerships, empowering champions: the example of the cornell alliance for science
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Building Partnerships, Empowering Champions: The Cornell Alliance for Science
FAO Feb 17, 2016
Sarah Evanega (snd@@cornell.edu)@sarah_evanega
Biofortified rice
Biofortifiedbananas
Pod borer resistant cowpea
Water efficient maize
Polled cows
The Science Enabling Environment
Capacity Building
Research
Policy & Regulatory
Community Engagement
The Cornell Alliance for Science seeks to promote access to scientific
innovation as a means of enhancing food security, improving environmental
sustainability, and raising the quality of life globally.
What We Believe
We believe that real science and evidence should influence decision making around agricultural biotechnology. We are pro-science, pro-access, pro-public sector, and pro-poor.
What We Do
We are working to unite, engage, and empower a network of partners with grassroots and communications strategies that can be used to advocate for increased access to biotechnology.
Three Core Strategies
1. Establishing a global network of partners who share the mission of solving complex global issues by leveraging biotechnology.
1. Training with a purpose so that partners are well equipped with the tools to advocate for access to biotechnology
1. Shifting the narrative to a message framework that targets misinformation and lays out a clear and concise argument in support of biotechnology
6200+ science allies engaged in 109 countries
Three Core Strategies
1. Establishing a global network of partners who share the mission of solving complex global issues by leveraging biotechnology.
1. Training with a purpose so that partners are well equipped with the tools to advocate for access to biotechnology
1. Shifting the narrative to a message framework that targets misinformation and lays out a clear and concise argument in support of biotechnology
“Our family farm saw the benefits of
biotechnology for small scale farmers.”
-Joni Kamiya, Hawaii
“Every field is using scientific innovation to
advance and there should be no exception
in plant breeding.” - Clet Masiga, Uganda
“Access to life improving technologies is a
matter of social justice.” –Jamie Foley,
Vegan GMO, USA
“How can I expect people to praise and
worship God if they are hungry and mired in
poverty?” Rev. Fr. Noli Alparce, the
Philippines
Data CommunicationsDigital TrainingGrassroots
Our Approach
Rev. Fr. Noli Alparce, Catholic Church-Philippines
Md. Arif Hossain, Bangladesh
Patricia Nanteza, Banana 21 project, Uganda