Discussing a prototype and a Draft Concept Note

Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition • FSN Forum would like to inform you about an extension of the e-consultation on “Contribute to shaping the design of the Agrifood System Technologies & Innovations Outlook Knowledge Base. Discussing a prototype and a Draft Concept Note” until 10 February.

This consultation is being organized by FAO’s Office of Innovation and aims to understand use cases and users’ preferences to guide the current design of the Agrifood systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook (ATIO) Knowledge Base (KB). The event seeks suggestions and input to a prototype and a Draft Concept Note of ATIO KB.

We also want to take the opportunity of the extension for inviting in farmers, farmers organizations representatives and grassroots communities representatives to contribute to this initiative.

The relevant inputs received in this consultation will become part of the ATIO KB design document, and some of the recommendations will have been implemented ideally by July 2025 and others planned for later. In addition, we will be glad to invite participants who are particularly interested and involved to take part in an expert consultation that should take place in February 2025. The first version of the platform will be published in July 2025.  

To take part in this consultation, please visit the webpage to read the full introduction with relevant links to the discussing document and guiding questions. For an assistance please contact fsn-moderator@fao.org .

The Agrifood System Technologies & Innovations Outlook (ATIO) Knowledge Base is conceived as a qualitative-information catalog of agrifood-systems technologies and innovations developed by actors across the full spectrum of stakeholders, including grassroots innovations. Its coverage is going to be global and span the whole innovation life cycle and all relevant use cases in the agrifood system. It will be neutral, partnership-driven, participatory, and open access. The content will be both federated from trustworthy relevant sources (and when necessary curated), and crowdsourced, with intensive but controlled use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enrich and categorize the records. Its objective is to assist policy makers and other agrifood systems stakeholders in making informed decisions to support the prioritization and upscaling of technologies and innovations to accelerate agrifood systems transformation.

At this early stage, when we are developing a design document and have an early prototype, it is the right time to consult potential users. We follow a participatory approach: we want our design to be co-developed, shared and widely endorsed.     

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Please feel free to share this invitation with your professional networks.

Thank you,

Your FSN Forum Team

TO PARTICIPATE – get registered or login to your account on the FSN Forum website www.fao.org/fsnforum; post your contribution on the dedicated webpage. For questions please contact fsn-moderator@fao.org.