 All right, please find your seats your the number of the table is on your name tag All right, can I ask everyone to please sit down? Hey there? Okay, we'll just we'll have to start All right, we have a very full program today So I'd like to start on Time possible Okay, please find your your table number is on your name tag and we like to spread ourselves out a little All right, very good. I think we're going to have to get started here You've all passed the first test of finding your table self-organizing and quantity And so the cameras can catch me And welcome everybody who's online comments via our Twitter feed hashtag Siani 17 and we will respond to them during the meeting Welcome to the rest of you who actually made it here in person This lovely day in January in Stockholm We're very happy to have this Taking place today and to have so many of our different sectors represented. We have private sectors civil society government academia students your academia too, but you're special and Who else did I forget? Yeah, okay We have everybody we can think of and people here from kushan stud to umil in Sweden have agreed to join us Which we're very happy about Siani has traditionally had a lot of Openness for member input and your input today, which will come when we have the round table dialogues That's why you're all seated at different places here so that we have a good mix of people at each table Academics count to three before you say anything Because we usually have a lot of academics very happy to talk and we need to hear everyone today I'm an academic too, so I mean and an economy. I'm the worst of the worst so the program today will Consist of some background presentations before we go into the dialogue, which is really the point of the day We will have a first up will be a panel discussion on the 2030 agenda Which will be moderated by Maria Yutbe you can wave Maria She's at our partner organization for Kali, which is a forestry research network and Then our communications officer will give us an overview of where Siani is now in terms of membership geographical spread, etc And we have an input today from one of our expert groups the expert group in Kenya Steven Vondie mungula Steven you can wave Will who's the lead junior professional there will be giving us a talk about commercializing agriculture in Kenya And then right before you break into groups Matthew Fielding our communications manager will present Siani 3 we're now in our as of 1st of December. We're in our third phase And the 2030 agenda and the plans for 2017 these are the basic outline for our activities. However We have a lot of room for input and in the past things. We have not planned at the secretariat For example our youth initiative have come from the annual members meeting So don't feel that you don't have to contribute so that we get a better program for 2017 All right With that said, I think the panel members should come up and Maria. I will give you the microphone. Okay. Hi everyone. Can you hear me? Okay Thank you for the introduction Melinda I'm Maria gothberg and I work with the for Kali the forest climate and livelihood research network and We have gathered here today to talk about Siana 3 and right now we're supposed to talk about Siana 3 and the 2030 agenda challenges and opportunities ahead and To do that. We have three people in the panel. They would like to come up here and this table We have Johan Kylensjärna first up here So the executive director at SCI the Stockholm environment Institute We also have Karin Oscar Schoen who's the program manager and Siani's the desk officer at Sida She's working at the unit for global economy and environment And then we have Ola Möller who's the senior policy specialist in agriculture all Sida So as Melinda said, we're just entering at the third phase and whichever you were excited about We were established in 2008 and we have been at SCI since 2009 And we have over the years grown into a pretty large network. We have seven hundred 1700 members at the moment, which feels like a very fantastic number for us And yeah, some of you are sitting here in the audience today, which is very nice And During this third phase as Siana will continue to act as a neutral platform where discussions of sustainable agriculture and food security can be held and The platform is also used to explore and establish collaborations between different sectors of society where progress can be made towards Achieving the new worlds the world's new development again that their agenda 2030 But I would like to know when we can start with Johan, you've been working alongside with Siana for many years What is in your opinion our most important contribution to the work on Reaching sustainable agriculture and food security in developing countries Thanks a lot and it's so nice to see everyone here really It's just a broad membership and I think in itself. This is actually one of the success stories Of course when you start an initiative, you you know, you consider various things What quite often happens is that you okay as an organization you get an initiative and what you try to do is of course to build So, you know a critical mass of people and build it as as large as possible within your own organization That has not happened, which I think is one of the successes of siani Siani has really been about gathering different Competencies and addressing critical food security issues really using the broad network and competence that we have in Sweden and Connecting it to international actors and international processes and that You know an example of this success we see here in this room today. How many are from? SCI in here Okay, good and how many are not from SCI Exactly so this is actually one of the success stories of siani I would I would argue the question is broader though I mean you're basically saying what has Sweden contributed to global food security and the global food security efforts well Maybe not enough that's for sure I think that in terms of the broader issue looking at global food security and understanding food security in a global context Sweden is not a key driver today. I think we have a lot to do. I do believe however That's siani has made a contribution in that direction Maybe the most important thing really, you know increasing the understanding and the connect again the connection between Sweden and the role Sweden has and the role Swedish actor has have and the international The international arena you could say If we go back many years and of course, we have not you know We are not fully successful in this but if we go back a few years many years before siani You can see that we have a lot of you know critical actors on this working on on their arenas I mean you take the civil society for instance if you take the private sector if you take Research and research on different strands But we have not worked effect effectively Effectively together and this I think has been a great weakness This is what I think has been the most important contribution of siani for the time being if you try to measure Impact direct impact. It's much more difficult That's always a challenge and this is something we of course work a lot with sida who is the key funders because they want to see what are You know primary impacts there. We still have quite a lot to do. I would argue, you know to measure this real impact One thing I believe there are two or two areas where I believe Sweden Can contribute and to a certain extent has contributed also through the way we work in siani is Inclusiveness, how do you work across many different stakeholders sometimes with very different perspective? And I think siani has contributed there, which is really key The second thing I believe is a strong area in Sweden and where I think siani has contributed is to focus on governance key governance for food systems and that is also an area that I hope to expand in the future in siani But I really think we have also contributed quite a lot over the past couple of years Thank you and from sida we have cardin who said if you once been working along siana for many years I think correct me if I'm wrong. I think cardin is just started last year. I think our desk officer and So what have during this time? How do you feel? When you learn about siani, what do you think is our important contribution? Yeah, well first of all I'm also as you answer happy to see such a variety of participants here and the members that you also represent different parts of society and I would say as you once said I won't repeat it, but this Contribution to the international ongoing dialogue So and then you put it very well And I just one thing that you said when you turn to me is that how do we measure impact? And I just want to come back to that because that is where you as members Really have an important role that you report back when you work in in the partner countries that you report back to Sionian what what has what have you done? What what are the impacts that you can see in the countries from the work that Sionia's done? Well, would you like to fill in on that or well, I think First of all, thank you for inviting me also to take part in this but this panel and this meeting to see so many participants as well Well, I could add two small things to what I'm Russian and Karna said I agree completely with what they said Sorry, okay. I agree completely with what the previous speakers. I get such a bad But I could add Yeah, I could add two things First of all a bit more general comment and then one more from a CEDA perspective I think one very important Area of importance that Sion has been working with the last couple of years is The issue about youth to involve young people in this very very important Issue of rural development. How shall we produce all this food that we need in the future? We all know that we need to increase it and at the same time turn it into Sustainable production and you you the young people is sort of the key to to solve this problem And that's why I think it's very very important and very Appreciated that Sion it has been working so much focused with it with the issue about youth the last number of years From a CEDA perspective, I think Sion it has slowly but steadily raised the issues and In one way foresee that to more and more appreciate and acknowledge the fact that we can't forget about rural development We can't forget about the poor people living in these marginalized areas. We can't forget about food production We can't forget about natural resources agriculture forestry aquaculture and so on. It's very easy Now I'm a bit provocative. Maybe also against my employer that To follow new fancy Areas of interest fans areas of infashion to work with Rural development and agriculture can be seen as yesterday's development corporation But it's still so important And I think see on he has contributed to keep the issue about rural development poverty eradication Agriculture from a broad perspective As a topic for discussion at CEDA and that I'm very happy about Well in this in Seattle's third phase, we will concentrate on those areas of agriculture and food production there are needed to achieve sustainability foster economic growth and For small-scale a producers and ensure food security In low-income countries and when we're relating see on his New new phase to agenda 2030. It's pretty clear that we're working a lot with SDG to Which is ending hunger achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture so considering The themes like the thematic work that we already do and the activities that we have are there some additional themes or questions that You would like us to see to see us work more with to be even more in line with agenda 2030 or make that the work that we do Stronger more efficient You want maybe we'll start. Yeah, I mean I mean first to say I think one aspect and this is maybe a detail I think it's really good that we are moving away from a factor to see see on it as an initiative and Really as an investment a long-term investment from CEDA and hopefully eventually from other actors But also it is an investment from a lot of other actors who are engaged in in Siani already today This is important because the agenda we are referring to agenda 2030 and is of course a long-term agenda It will likely go beyond 2030 We will likely not have reached really everything by 2030. I think there will be other aspects coming up That is the key thing. I would argue Well, if there are other activities, that's always hard to say I think that you know, you could you could cut the cake in so many different ways And I don't want to go into details But a few perspectives only that I think will be key when we move forward as Siani, but also through the initiatives One is really to keep that core of Siani operating Evidence-based, which we are also arguing that we are doing. This is a very controversial area food security Agriculture, there are so many opinions And I think you know being an evidence-based organization really Founded in science is key for Siani to continue and I think that it's going to be critical for all the working groups to Consider that it's a narrow balance. Now. I think they have balanced it very well between becoming an advocate and being evidence and science-based and this is also, you know Reflection of the diversity of members we have The second thing is really to continue focus on everything we do to get the knowledge out So that is key. It's not a science organization writing papers It's getting the knowledge out and getting it to actors that can make a difference Which are quite often outside the agri sector. So taking a food systems perspective in a broader sense I think will be absolutely critical and And looking at SDG not to get stuck in SDG2 Remember that it is a universal interlink agenda. I mean if you go to 12.3 for instance SDG 12.3 It's about food waste. So we have to really look at it in a broader sense We had to be careful not to focus only on SDG2 because it becomes too much Poverty oriented in that case and we really have to take the broad agenda and the final point I think it will be interesting if potentially One part of a Siani a working group could look more into how we could link to the Paris agenda And especially the NDCs national determined contributions and we talked with Cida about this before also in the NDCs Agriculture is a key Component there will be huge investments there because it links to climate And I think we have tremendous opportunities really to link the different agendas here So that I would like to see maybe even stronger in the Siani 3 working group with NDC is interesting Karin or Ula. Yeah Maybe not adding to a specific theme, but in a broader perspective I agree with what you once said that Siani has made a name for being an organization that Provides information and knowledge that is evidence-based and that is important to keep that and For this phase 3 some sort of key messages from Cida would be that the focus of Siani should be food security for poverty reduction and that gender equality should be included in all activities that Siani do and Siani does and That is that might be a slight change but we have to have that in bear that in mind and have that as a focus and To think that sort of Siani Focus is or objectives is not to sort of Capacitate the Swedish resource base that could be a means To achieve the objectives, but it's not the objective And also that also means that the importance to have a clear link to Developing countries in all of Siani's work And Also, US members really have an important role as I said initially in this and you and also mentioned it in this conveying of knowledge and in information generated by Siani out To the international arena and also when you work in the in the Countries where you work and where you capture sort of ideas needs From the countries that you take that back to Siani so that there is an exchange of knowledge and information between the countries and And also Finally, I think It is important to work as you and also said with a whole food chain and It would be interesting also to maybe see an increased Well, and I don't know how to put it participation will to work also with the private sector that like the food Food sector I could eat well food industry. Yeah So that I think that would be interesting to see Thank you. Yeah, so maybe last question for Ola then who's Working with ruler rule development issues at SIDA Do you think that Siani has been like linking in feeding into the work that SIDA does or is there? Is there more to it? Is there more that we can do to to have a good cooperation But I think working with the same type of what Siona's done so far is very good So of course, I expect a lot more from you I Joking aside Yes, I think what Siani has been doing Very well is to show that Agriculture is not a sector on its own so to say it's not a small narrow area of interest for a certain people Working with a specific area not in any connection with other areas I think what Siona has been doing very well the last During the phases that you have been working Is to show the importance of integrating different aspects of development from the poverty perspective and that's Completely right on spot with SIDA's perspective that we should always take the poverty the poor people's perspective on development And and my only comment would be that Continue to do that because I think that is the way to solve problems that that poor people you we also look at their rights their their health and Their environment to take a landscape approach both in physical terms as well as in social terms Sounds like we have a lot more to do So I think our time is up, but thank you for coming here and sharing your thoughts And I believe you have inspired us to develop Siona even further Next up on the agenda, okay is an overview of where Siani is now by Who is our communications officer, right you ready to go Hello everyone It's good to be here It's my first ever public speech on behalf of Siani and I'm thrilled and honored To tell you today about what we have been up to for the past three years. I would also like to To use this opportunity to express my gratitude to the team of people that I'm working with together Thank you my team at Siani Thank you so much So as I said is my first public speech during my work with Siani it is also my first job after graduation from university and Finishing up my master's studies with two degrees I had no clue what I'm gonna work with so I'm very happy to tell you today that Certain that I'm in the right place and then in the right time I'm also certain that zero hunger that zero hunger challenge and work through sustainable food systems and Caring about nature and about people is Paramount for sustainable development and that food security is at the heart of achieving the 2030 agenda and I believe that we are going to achieve our goals by working together in partnerships and through networks like Siani Communication in all shapes and forms is at the heart of this approach And because how else are we going to achieve our goals without establishing a common understanding about our troubles and the ways of getting out of them So when I started to work at Siani as an intern in 2012 we had 700 members and We didn't have Facebook or Instagram We had only 300 followers on our Twitter account and As I looked yesterday according to Google Analytics only about 6000 people visited our website in 2012 today Siani website is visited by 26,000 people annually and Our Twitter feed has just surpassed 3,500 followers and was mentioned by the Guardian and among the top 10 feeds to follow for the news about agriculture and sustainable food security 1200 people engaged with us on Facebook and our Instagram that we just rolled out in spring last year has 250 followers and is constantly growing and where membership base has more than doubled And people come from our website from all over the world I think the only three white spots that I found yesterday is Western Sahara a retreat at Turkmenistan and we Otherwise, otherwise you can see that we are covering the entire world Here are the countries that visit our website the most and I'm happy to see that it's a range of countries from Western Europe the US the UK and also many countries from Africa and Asia One of the distinct features of the networks and what really fascinates me is The ability to do more with less is the ability to pull out Resources and make big progress leaps with the fairly low investments and I Will try to explain it to you better with the impact stories that we prepared for this meeting So the first story I want to share is the story about our work on antimicrobial resistance It's a really big deal It the declaration on action on antimicrobial resistance was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in September to 2016 it's The first time that the heads of states agreed on such a high level to track and monitor the use of antibiotics in our food production and Sweden as the global leader in this field was leading in the negotiations and made a lot to put this agreement into force on Our side in Siani. We were supporting the work of Swedish government working together with our partner at the Salute of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences to foster public discussion through our events and the work started I think with the visit of FIO director general to Uppsala in 2015 and continued throughout the year in Atari events in Alma-Dale and the World War two week and I think it's reached its highest point at least for me at the 43rd 43rd session of the World Committee on Food Security and the FIO headquarters in Rome Another story that I want to share is the creation and launch of the agroforestry network that happened in November 2016 and I think that this is sort of a surprise story It started from our net Workshop that were organized without a partners in Gothenburg and it was a long day of Talks about agroforestry systems and how do we scale agroforestry systems and how do we adapt them to? Market solutions and we even had a theoretical system scientists there and so it also happened that the representative of the Gothenburg city administration was there as well and then after the workshop They contacted our partners and for Kali and asked them to advise them and assist on Initiating agroforestry around the city of Gothenburg which eventually grew into the agroforestry Congress and into the creation of agroforestry network And the third story I want to tell about is that Work on food waste You probably have heard about the Global food waste and losses protocol that was launched in June 2016 Last year. It's the first ever initiative to track and Monitor food waste and losses created for businesses and actors along the supply chain to To track and capture their food losses and all done in the internationally consistent manner So the results of their reviews can be compatible to each other and I'm very proud to to say that One of our expert groups contributed to the creation of this standard So that is what I mean by doing more with less That I think the stories They represent the network approach in action and Then when I was asked to prepare this talk To tell where siani is now I was thinking where is actually siani now And I started to think about all the people that are going to be in the room today that I hear today And about the people who are watching us from online about everyone who works with us So if you're here in the room Look around and meet each other's eyes if you are in Somewhere in front of the screen Maybe look inside yourself and focus on this moment because that is where siani is now And I think it's an amazing feeling I Think that it's a network spirit and I think it's the joy of working together and sharing our success together And they want us all to celebrate it today Thank you her first but obviously not her last presentation Excellent Okay We're moving on later in the afternoon one of the impact stories. She mentioned the antimicrobial Resistance will be there'll be a presentation on that subject a little more in-depth and you'll be able to ask questions about it Now Steven there you are okay. We are going to have a presentation from Kenya now from the siani expert group and You have a lovely title to your group called wake the Kenyan giant Indicating that there's a lot of potential further commercialization in the agricultural sector that perhaps Realized but you're on you're on it Ladies and gentlemen Ladies and gentlemen It's a pleasure and a privilege to address you My name is Steve Vondie Mugula. I represent the siani Kenya expert group. I'm the lead junior professional I'll present what the expert group from Kenya has done and I'll take you through Generally what my presentation will entail I'll explain why the giant Melinda mentioned giant she emphasized on the giant So I'll explain why we think it's a giant I'll do a brief introduction and my introduction will entail I'll explain a bit how we came up with the siani Kenya chapter the objectives of the group and the scope of work I'll explain a brief of the journey and we had some challenges to achieve our Output so I'll take you through the approaches we had and then the findings we did on and then Experience our achievements and the conclusion in the way forward So why is the why do we think that Kenya's agriculture is a giant? first term it's a driver for economic growth and transformation the ratio for for between economic growth and agriculture production is one to 1.3 that usually When there is economic growth when we experience economic growth in Kenya much can be attributed to increase agriculture production The other is the percentage of population involved or affected by agriculture Over 80 percent of rural population in Kenya is involved in agriculture and 40 percent of Total labor force draw their income from agriculture Next is the Kenya drug ecological zone diversity this provides an opportunity to have a wide variety of value chains that we can grow and Be food secure the other is the demographic characteristic youth one of the panelists to mention that You linkage between youth and rural development So we think that given that much of our population is more to the youth it provides a good opportunity to grow agriculture So a brief introduction now ASSP is the partner to siani sweden It's so it was a core funded from siani sweden and sgsp sgsp is a program funded by Government of sweden through cedar and government of Kenya in the proportion of 80 to 20 percent 80 from cedar and 20 from government of Kenya They did a baseline survey three baseline surveys agribusiness survey policy and institutional Survey and household baseline survey It is told on commercialization productivity income and food security the results from the survey is showed are worrying trend on status of household food security food productivity and incomes Under-employment and youth and women participation in agriculture land degradation and little to no commercialization Just to mention a brief on food security Approximately 60 over 60 percent of Kenyans or rural Kenya is a food insecure Their incomes 70 cents per day per household Employment is down youth and women in agriculture the proportion compared to men is below Average and what I'll show evidence of is there's little or to no commercialization once the findings Brainstorming on the findings are led to establishment of the group of experts and using what I can see from here Siani Kenya adopted the same model. It drew experts from Academia government private and then hence now Siani Kenya chapter expert group Our objectives were first in question One was to find the status of agriculture sector where we were and Find reasons why it was the way it was and then how we could include the stakeholders Harness the potential and remove obstacles to commercialization. How would we achieve their objectives? Will come up with the situation on analysis papers and later on draw policy briefs from this and draw later on write a report on the general state of commercialization in Kenya the journey we had to approaches to accomplish our strategy the first was The initial concept was an expert group approach drawing more the senior expert senior expert is the experience all the sorry to use all the older All the dinosaurs there so Launching was successful. We did the launch in February the 17th last year. It was successful a lot of enthusiasm, but did not work It was abandoned after three months reasons When we found some didn't understand the concept the other was time given there we were drawing it was more of a volunteer and There was little to know monetary compensation So in Kenya or generally in Africa if you don't want people for their time They don't give you the same time and then so later on we after the three months We come up with a new concept an approach using junior experts young people like me Through a mentorship approach will draw some of the experts group ASDSP as I had mentioned earlier is a partner and we used some that technical Technical advices to the program mostly were from Nairas and They offered to mentor the junior fresh graduate from campus It was successful and Provided information partially answering the what and the why questions So fine just to dwell a bit on the approaches the expert group approach on The concept was based on value chains. We came up with three categories. There was a near to commercialization Nowhere near commercialization and outliers The the the value chains were the value chains Dairy fish poultry and banana without those who are well on their way to commercialization The value chains without had the potential to be commercialized or cassava meat honey mango Irish potatoes Outliers we consider them to be local vegetables agroforestry, sorghum and pasture The second approach the junior expert approach will use the same the same value chains for analysis and it will engage in right shops and Use the course effect methodology to investigate the issues assigned to that affect commercialization so hence The slide shows the mechanization and brackets cassava So one of the junior experts, that's the name we refer them to Came up with a paper detailing she was investigating the state of Mechanization in the cassava value chain across the whole value chain from production To the market, so she found some that the yield for For cassava was 15% of potential that we could achieve more and she thought that one ways will be through mechanization she was Motting that promotion of the cassava value chain Technology transfer and development along with the value chain how much how mechanization can help Commercialize the value chain the cassava value chain. The other was a farm organization Mound dairy This was one of the Commodities of value chains without to a well on their way to commercialization Using the deficient nation. She came up with she found that to be commercialized in dairy value chain 84% of the of the produce should be marketed, but currently we only do 55% So she thought that using collective action and bringing Farmers together could achieve Could enable them to be more commercialized The other one was profitability centrally on maize If you read most reports regarding Kenyan maize it shows that that the basis that's generally what we grow but at subsistence level we found that maize cannot be profitable at all and that Open pollinated varieties give higher margins to at at a lower production level compared to hybrids as it's mostly thought At present chill level per capita income of a Household that's growing maize is five cents per day per household, which is very bad Later the other paper was on agriculture data. I did this myself so there I investigated the status of access Reliability and level of investment of statistical of statistical data in the Agriculture sector. I found that there's little to no investment that access is limited and that Reliability of the data is questionable that it's very unreliable and that Little or to no emphasis is put on use of data and one of the panelists to mention that siani advocates more for evidence-based results so use of data in in developing Policies and in making decisions is vital in order to move the Kenya agriculture sector towards commercialization Experiences and achievements. I'm like I mentioned earlier Objectives were first in questions. So what on the what question we achieved some why some and how We'll hopefully we get a new face. I'll mention that towards the end of the slide I'm the AC approach that was the senior expert approach the first approach I mentioned that it didn't work towards that due to some of the reasons have I lighted that time monetary compensation and gaps of Concept the other issue was the capacities of the junior professionals. We engaged All of them were fresh graduates. We all hold our bachelors of Science is something related to agriculture. I'm a bachelors of science holder, too the other was commitment from both the junior expert and senior experts and then the process was vigorous and Hence the reason why I mentioned that we had two approaches because we experienced some of the delays In conclusion There's a lot of programs The development partners funded and also within Kenya that are trying to look at commercialization one thing we found out that Not many both from the from the Kenyan government and also development partners understand what commercialization will mean for commercialized agriculture will look like in Kenya So our outputs papers that is the situational papers and the policy briefs we wrote Give me evidence that commercialization is being superficially addressed There's a need for deep understanding of commercialization like I mentioned and there's need to develop adequate policies to agriculture driver of So before I get to the thank you bit sorry our analysis Was more we based it on the vision 2030. There's a A Strategy of how Kenya is envisioned by 2030 to look like so Siani Kenya came up with that for According to the vision 2030 Kenya is a middle-income economy. So we based that We drew up what it will mean for a household to be in a middle income What to take for like for growing this value change that probably issues like land issues that At the current state Kenya cannot commercialize because of land issues and access to finance and such And finally I want to say Sorry, I do say finally I'm finally Siani gave gives an opportunity I was impressed when I came yesterday and met some of the Sianityam that the larger That does not happen often in Sorry in developing countries at this me being here. It's it was strange when I left Kenya They were expecting somebody bigger bigger. I mean dinosaurs like you mentioned To be sent to be sent over so Siani gives that opportunity links youth you feel involved and hence one of the panelists mentioned there's need to link youth and What the vision what you see should be and hence Very thankful that I've been given the opportunity. Thank you Sorry, the dinosaur now says that we have time for one or two quick This is such an interesting presentation. It's not every day Is this working that we have him here so one or two quick questions one there? Thank you very much Cecilia from the government's offices. Thank you Stephen And I must say was very refreshing to hear somebody who's just finished his education Getting into these very difficult issues and starting work on them Because one question that we ask ourselves is that yes? Demographics is youth, but what about youth? Do they want to stay and work in agriculture? Do they see a future there was that something that came through in your work? Thank you anyone else have a Okay, then we'll let you answer that question In Africa or generally developing countries There's a misconception that you can only involve you in any sector if it is ICT related That we have become to Technic technic Logists that it's only if you use ICT, but Looking at different angle of it all There's need if we to grow we are to grow to any sector including agriculture There need for technical people and such youth are interested, but the issue is is at what level? Do you engage? Yeah, then thank you very much for that excellent presentation and the dinosaurs are in stand-in-all Right before we then go into our groups for the roundtable dialogues we have a presentation on Siany 3 which you may be curious about since it began on the 1st of December and The 2030 agenda and in general a sort of overview of our framework for 2017 Matthew much I'm Matthew Fielding. I've been working for Siany from the first first phase we have we had and What I can say is with each with each new phase it really gives Siany a chance to Reappraise the context in which Siany is existing and to look at how we are completely our activities Update the way we communicate to look at how we engage with our our partners in other worlds and in developing countries and in other countries and to really kind of Focus clearer and clearer In this particular phase of Siany one over the next two and a half years and hopefully longer than that We have refined our outcome areas to these three To these three Words here one is about the enabling environments for evidence-based multi-sectors interdisciplinary dialogues Looking at knowledge Generation from the network bringing that up to International events, but then also bringing knowledge back from the international arena down into To Sweden and to various stakeholders and partners there and then to facilitate inclusive action No longer is it sufficient just to prepare reports or to document that she needs to translate into into action The context to of Siany is a really dynamic time at the moment People are increasingly coming together and collaborating to find solutions to shared challenges that we have and trying to build a better Common future and we saw this with the development of the sustainable development goals and Agenda 2030 that where there was this unprecedented Set of global consultations trying to find out what what we want And looking to achieve it not only through Development aid, but also through civil society the private sector academia governments all having a role to play Not only that but the Paris Agreement was the first climate related agreement that had specific food security and sustainable agriculture Where they were at first explicitly addressed and then also the context that see eyes operating in is the Sustainable agriculture and food security and their role in poverty alleviation is a fundamental part anchored within Cedar's current priorities as well as We know as I'm sure all of you know and all of you work with the the climate change is a is driving long term environmental damage and Not only slow onset but short onset disasters and catastrophes and this prevents a really Threat to human security both now and in the future You know we see record-breaking temperatures for example in in sub-Saharan Africa Leading to drought water scarcity agricultural crises in rural areas But these are the areas that are perhaps least equipped to be able to Combat and as people move they often move to neighboring countries where they're also equally challenged and poor and unable to cope Siani sees that multi-sector networks and platforms such as us have a vital role to play in this context The international community is planned an ambitious agenda and that's something that Siani is a Arm of and has a role within its current phase the third phase to actually Contribute to it. That's why our our mission that we've established for Siani in this phase is to promote a multi-sector dialogue with participation from academia the private sector Swedish authorities and the civil society surrounding SDG to and in 2016 at this meeting last year The when we participated in our round table dialogues very much what came out of them was that there was a That Siani should play a proactive role in monitoring the progress of the Swedish contribution to the achievement of the SDGs And that's something we can revisit today to see how we can actually put them into practice Of course, we have to bear in mind that One SDG can only be realized through the achievement of all of them and they're incredibly interrelated and so We can say that we are working on all of them, but specifically for Siani SDG to an SDG 17 which is the one about enhancing support for developing countries Especially for the least developed countries Is of course key to our work So That's translated into these six areas where we've chosen to cluster our our efforts We found that within the secretariat and within the activities of the network We can't possibly hope to cover all of the issues in all of the sections So what we do is to to cluster on specific areas That we've developed over time that lead themes of work So embedded into all these titles comes all of the Seminars the reports the expert groups that we have are all found under one of these specific work areas and So moving ahead into 2017 there's as with previous Siani phases There's a number of key events that we look to link our work up with throughout the year This year the the high-level panel of experts one of their reports from the CFS is on sustainable forestry For food security and nutrition and that's something where we'll be organizing several different Forms of activities around events and publications to link in with that and Take advantage of the opportunity provided there. It's also the international year of sustainable tourism for development and Specifically as Swedes we go on these amazing holidays to these beautiful destinations often in low-income countries And there's there's a lot that actual tourism can do to support this Expert groups as well We've just finished the the call for our first set of expert groups under the current phase and as Steve Fantastically showed just now that that's a great tool for Siani to engage with Go that extra yard away out of the What we don't really like to refer to those as Swedish research but resource-based, but to actually Join up with partners in those countries to connect that the kind of final meters to to where poverty is on our events side in 2016 we'll having events both national with the Agri 4d conference That's coming up this year with a focus on rural transformation Have World War two week as usual where Siani is always present world food day and an RRI event the rights and resources Institute looking at community land rights coming up in October and as usual will be at Alma-Darling Specifically with our focus on youth and how youth can engage with the political discourses there Internationally will be at the CFS again this year and at the Global Landscapes Forum Which are our two main events where we hope to bring the knowledge from the the sector and actually promote it and Report back and try to improve that the dialogues that we have here and Then and that's in addition to other events that we encounter as we go as we go on throughout the year Where our members will be in contact and together will collaborate with other partners and institutions and organizations to actually bring up different events and then finally we have our We used to I mean this is one good example of how we used to How we used to Refer to things in Siani we used to talk about our publications and our reports But I mean in line with what what yoan said as well. We now don't look to write a report We like to document evidence-based results and innovations. We like to really pin down We don't just want to publish reports for reports sake But we actually like to try and capture what we are learning through the action of Siani and the network and to put that into Targeted communications materials and the fantastic communications team that we have in Siani is able to to do that and actually to prepare things that are able to Communicate right to the people where we want those messages to be heard and so you know Finally just to reiterate that I see some old faces here, and I see some new faces here So I think it's always good to go through the kind of I think I can you can justifiably say this is kind of the modus operandi of Siani about we always seeking Opportunities to collaborate and to join together operating under our mission We like to develop alliances to exploit opportunities to disseminate and to feed our communications materials to the right Parts to the right there to the right targets We work to seek cross-sectoral Participation at events and to promote dialogues to help understand links especially between peace agriculture and food security So thank you very much. Enjoy the round table dialogues later All right, and now we've come to that exciting part of the day, which is why you're all here when you will be in groups around I think there are eight groups and Fortunately, you're already sitting at the right table. Hopefully if you were able to read your name tag and you're quantitatively blessed and Your you at each table there's a facilitator and the facilitator will give you more detailed instructions about how you were to how to conduct the dialogue and To help us with the role that the Siani network and its partners can play in rural Transformations the general and then there are a number of you can suggest activities or strategies Etc. Etc. I'd like to say is there did you have a no? okay and practical note here lunch is at 12 and You can't it's at the restaurant cabaret You can get to the cabaret without leaving the building if you go down one flight of stairs and sort of keep to your left there And follow the signs so nobody has to put all their their gear on Which could take time In January and you were very welcome to have lunch remember just that your group needs to report back