 I'm Fergus Sinclair, co-convener of the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology with Philipp Vast of Syred. And it's fantastic to welcome you all to this activation workshop to get this community of practice really humming. And I'm going to hand over to our moderator today, Matthias Geck, who many of you will already know. Presently, he's with BioVision in Switzerland, but soon to join C4 aircraft in Nairobi and he's been a member of the advisory group of the TPP since its inception a couple of years ago. So Matthias, the floor is yours. Thank you very much, dear Fergus, for those nice introductory welcome remarks and welcome everybody to today's activation workshop of the community of practice or COP or the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology. As Fergus said, my name is Matthias Geck. I'm your moderator today. I'm currently with BioVision Foundation and I'm an advisory board member of the Transformative Partnership Platform, and I will soon join the wonderful Agroecology. Before we start with our interesting programme today, I would just like to let you know if you would like to follow rather in Spanish or English, you can click at the bottom of your screen where it says interpretation and choose in Spanish or French as a language. And I would also need to inform you that this event is being recorded for future use on YouTube and other channels. And if we receive many requests for a new workshop, we will do our best to schedule one. Further, I would like to know that I'd like to let you know that the chat function has been disabled, but any questions you may have, you can pose in the Q&A window. Our colleagues from the TPP will do their best to answer all questions as they come in, and we will collect questions for the final part of this activation workshop, which is indeed the Q&A session. All the questions we cannot answer immediately will be followed up in writing and all participants of today's activation workshop will be notified by email accordingly. Finally, you can also pose all your questions in English, French or Spanish, and we'll do our best to answer them accordingly. Very importantly, I would like to just give a quick introduction of what the plan is today, and then hand over to our first speaker. So we'll first hear a little introduction of what the transformative partnership platform or TPP on agri-ecology is all about how it came to be and what its main features and achievements have been today. Then we'll hear a bit more about the details of how it functions and what it has been doing so far. Consequently, there will be an introduction to the Global Landscape Forum and particularly its online platform, the GLFX, on which the community of practice of the TPP is hosted. And then we'll get to the more interactive part where Fabio will be introducing some of the activities and features of this community of practice. There will be some polling on planned and possible future ideas for making the TPP lively and exciting for everyone. And finally, there will be a question and answer session where we hope we can address all your major questions. With this, let me just say that it's an honor to be here and it's great to see so many people joining. I think what makes agri-ecology different is really the engagement with all relevant stakeholders and it's a pleasure to see many of you here. With this, I would like to hand back over to Fergus Sinclair, who has introduced himself already, so I don't need to do that. And I think most of you probably know him quite well as the lead author of the groundbreaking HLPE report on agri-ecology, the co-convener of the Agri-ecology TPP, and chief scientist at C4EGRAPH and also co-coordinator of the Agri-ecology Coalition. Fergus, over to you for a quick introduction of the Agri-ecology TPP. Thank you. Okay, super. Fabio, do we have the slides up? And let's move straight on to the next slide. The TPP began really through activities during 2019, such as the HLPE report, the CIRAD CGAIR program on agri-ecology, and the Global Commission on Adaptation report on Agri-ecology contributing to resilience of agriculture. So we look at this slide from the center outwards, because the activity of the TPP is in the various landscapes, farms, the places where agri-ecology is happening, and then the global research and advocacy system supports that work on the ground. So, very simply, what the TPP is all about is addressing knowledge and implementation gaps that constrain the wide-scale uptake of agri-ecological transitions. Next slide. And those three words are important. The idea is to be transformative, not just to do research, but to make sure that things actually change on the ground. Secondly, it's a partnership. And that's really important because lots of people are working on agri-ecology. If we work together, then we're likely to make faster progress than if we're operating separately. And so a platform is what makes this all possible. And it uses this pattern Osterprisal of working bottom up and top down at the same time to see what's feasible with farmers on the ground and food system, other food system actors, and to create the enabling environment and remove lock ins that constrain adoption. Next slide. So the governance of the TPP is threefold. There are three donor countries at the moment, that's France, Switzerland, and the European Union. There are three research providers. That's C4 ICRAF, the French Research Institutions, and the one CJR. There is then three civil society farmer organizations, the Alliance for Food, Sovereignty, and Africa, the Asian Farmers Association, and the Latin American representative of the Indigenous Indigenous Partnership. Next slide. And supporting the work in an advisory role is an advisory group, which currently consists of people mainly from UN organizations from UNEP, FAO, IFAD, but also BIOvision and TMG. Next slide. Through 2020 and 2021 up to September, where the coalition for transforming food systems through agroecology came into being. There was a huge amount of activity in getting projects and modes of working together on the table. It was very successful with nearly 150 million worth of project funding around key gaps that have been identified by this collective that is the TPP. And these are projects which are practical, focused and with partners on the ground in different countries. So at UNFSS, at the last moment really, the group of friends of agroecology, which are member countries of FAO, made a strong letter to the UN suggesting that agroecology should be on the radar of UNFSS. In the pre-summit, an agroecology session was set up after lunchtime, it was one of the best attended sessions of the summit, and it led to the development with the support of the Transformative Partnership platform of the coalition. Next slide. And the important thing about the coalition is it's a coalition of the willing. And a lot of you may have noticed that the recommendations in the HLP report got quite watered down from the original when it came to the policy convergence process. So we're hoping by those countries that get together and there's nearly 40 that have already joined, including the European Union, the African Union and ECOWAS, and over 60 organizations. So it's already a coalition of 100 that by having some common ground will be able to make faster progress on action and that's what we're interested as far as the coalition is concerned is making action on the ground. And there are five working groups. And the one that the TPP is most closely associated with is the research and innovation working group, which of course itself then interacts with the others. Next slide. Next, the TPP operates on the basis of the 13 HLP principles is setting out what agroecology is all about, but it doesn't just follow the classic Gleesman transition, because next slide, we realize that there are multiple transitions, click again. That start from different places and follow different trajectories according to context, click again. And once we bring the consumers as well as the producers into the picture, then agency of people throughout the food system to have really democratic food systems becomes a really significant element. Next slide. There are eight working domains that have been identified for immediate progress within the TPP, and you'll hear more about what's going on in some of those from Lisa later on. And with that, I hope that you've got you probably all already knew most of that, but that's what the TPP, how the TPP came about, and what its key focus is. Thank you very much dear Fergus for this really good overview of what the TPP is all about. And just for those who just joined now would like to let you know that you can change the language setting when you get to the bottom of your screen click on interpretation. And you can also listen in Spanish or French. You can also always make use of the Q&A window, pose any questions you might have, and the colleagues as you're seeing probably are answering some of the questions already, and we'll ensure that all questions are being answered. If you prefer, you can always ask post your questions or comments in French or Spanish as well. With this, I would like to hand over to the second presenter of today, which is Lisa Fox. She's a wonderful social systems and engagement scientist at C4Ecraft, and also the scientific coordinator of the TPP. Lisa, if I'm not mistaken, you will give us a bit more insights on into how the TPP works and what it's doing specifically. And I think that also helps in answering some of the questions that are actually being posed on the chat. And those of you have noticed have seen that Fabio has a beautiful cat just walked in front of his face. Good to you, Lisa. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let me start sharing my slides. Okay, so there we go. As just introduced, I will speak a bit today about the mode of engagement, some of our projects and some of the events that the TPP is participating in. Currently, we have three levels of membership that represent our current mode of engagement. So their partners, forum members, and DLFX, Agroecology, TPP community of practice members. The difference is that partners are organizational members. They formally engage in the TPP in various TPP bodies such as the advisory group, the steering committee, the science policy interface, or the capacity development interface. And they do that. They do this formal engagement. They either engage in those bodies or they align existing projects or jointly design integrated new projects with the TPP. Those are the partners. Then we have the forum members, also organizational members, no formal arrangements, but they sign membership form. You can find the membership form on the website or you can send us an email and send it to you as well. What matters for the forum members? So beyond what different from the partners, if you will, there is no formal interaction through projects, but there is a mutual recognition of a value add between the two. So it's also part of the membership form that the forum members explain and manifest an interest in implementing the HLPE Agroecological Principles. And then the third level of membership, which is what we are talking about today, is the community of practice, which is for individuals and which is a non-formal membership. So Fogg has briefly spoke about our projects and the projects, our project portfolio has steadily grown over the last years, as you can tell, but he spoke about our eight walking domains and the central docking component. So the central docking component, as we call it, is what we see in orange or in red. And so the central functioning that comprises the advisory group, the steering committee and the secretariat, as well as the science policy interface and the capacity development facility. Then beyond that you see the yellow streams, those are ongoing projects and you see them abbreviations and acronyms of some of them, also some explanations on your screen. And the green areas you can see are new areas of work that you're currently developing and interested in. And I will be speaking briefly about a few of our projects, unfortunately I can't introduce all of them now, but I'm just highlighting a few of them. I want to give you a little bit more information about all of our projects on the website and from various partners with whom we're working on those on those projects. Just briefly, three of our newest projects, I listed them here for you. One of them is a transformative land investments project. The second one is tracking the implementation of the CFS policy recommendations. And just in is the co-impact for assistance change for scaling macroecological transitions and under progression in the end. I'm going to speak briefly about some of our projects. So the first project, also one of our first projects that we had as part of the TPP was the viability project or is the viability project, which is called the socio-economic viability and understanding adoption decisions. So the core objective of the project is really to understand viability of different agroecological options and understand how they're being adopted by whom. The project is composed of 12 case studies across Africa and you can see them on the screen. It has a three-year timeframe and is implemented by more than 10 partners from across the day are French research organizations, universities and research and training centers. And viability is looked at in terms of various aspects including labor, income and food security, value of ecosystem services, etc. As I said, you can also find more about the project on our website. One of our second core projects is revolves around agroecologically conducive policies. Here the objective is to or has been to conduct a worldwide review of policies that are conducive to agroecological transitions across various policies including including those that are consumer oriented, producer oriented, market and food environment oriented, macro and trade oriented and crosscutting. And there has been an interesting co-creation process and collaboration. It started with an introductory event in July 2021. Then there were several rounds of written input and feedback and a final paper was presented in July 2022. But the work it continues. Another core project is our metrics project and whose core objective is to develop and scale holistic metrics. It is part of the wider transitions project funded by the European Union. And the metrics project specifically and you see the outline here on your screen again is that it really includes a three step process for identification of metrics that are out there that are being used by various practice practitioners and various scientific organizations and to conduct a scientific review of these metrics and then through an engagement process co-create and work on the adoption of this holistic metrics for agroecology. And across various scales including system landscapes, farms and plots and really focuses on agroecological system performance beyond the system characterization, which many of the existing metrics do. Yet another project is the 1CGR agroecology initiative whose core objective is to support agroecological food system transitions. It is implemented by a partnership of seven 1CGR entities together with C4ECRAF and CIRAD under the auspices of the TPP. We have seven case studies in seven countries, four in Africa, two in Asia and one in the Americas. And it walks through the establishment of an international network of agroecological living landscapes that we call the ALS. You also see that the international network on the right hand side with the representation of the different systems. And there's an integrated focus within the project on innovation co-creation, holistic metrics, value chains and business models, policies and also agency and behavior change. One of the elements that the TPP is looking into more and more. And I think one of the last projects I'm presenting today is the one million voices project whose core objective is to develop a citizen science tool to address knowledge and implementation gaps. Very interesting project that we're very excited about. It follows a participatory co-creation process with regional farmers, producers and indigenous associations. We are conducting three regional dialogues and walking on the fourth regional dialogue. And these dialogues to identify a scope and mode for this citizen science tool is accompanied by a worldwide review of existing agroecology citizen science initiatives and projects. This also works in close collaboration with knowledge partners specifically the citizen science center in Zurich. So those were a few highlights into our existing projects. And beyond that, the TPP is also represented and engages in outward facing events. Some of the recent events that we participated in is Stockholm plus 50, where we had an associated session on quelling and imperfect storm. We held Congress on Agroforestry. We participated in the closing plenary on the Agroforestry Agroecology's nexus. At NAP Expo, we gave a keynote presentation that featured the TPP and the coalition. And we just participated in the second Mexican Congress of Agroecology this week. Some of the upcoming events, again, also a selection and you can find more about this on our website, particularly on our news section that has been very active so far. As we have at the moment, a meeting in Montpellier on the transformative research and action for food systems convening. Then in early October, we have the Asia Pacific Symposium on Agrofood Systems Transformation. In October, in mid October, we have CFS 50 in Rome. And then in November, we have UNFCC COP 27 in Cairo that we will be participating in also through various events. And this is my last slide. So I have been speaking about our current modes of engagement and I've been presenting some of the work we are doing. Today, we're really looking for strengthening the broader community and movement because Agroecology is about co-creation and really looking at expanding our engagement beyond the scientific community through the digital community of practice. And with that, I'm handing it back to Fabio. Thank you very much. To Matthias, I would say. Sure. Thank you so much Lisa and sorry for interrupting you. That was my internet connection that went off for a second, but I hope I'm audible again now. Thank you so much Lisa. That was so inspiring and super interesting what all the TPP is doing. And I think you've finished well with the last slide in terms of saying this community of practice is what it's all about. We need you to make things happen. And as I've seen, as I'm seeing that more people have still joined, I would like to remind you again that you can listen also in French and Spanish by clicking on interpretation at the bottom of your screen. And I would like to let all of you know, please do use the question and answer box at the bottom of your screen for posing any questions, making comments that you may have, whether in English, French or Spanish, everything is welcome. We're collecting questions for the subsequent question and answer session, and many questions are being answered live already. With this, I would like to hand over to Anita Moriagia, who is the Community Engagement Officer of the Global Landscape Forum, and particularly its online platform, the GLFX. And she will give us an overview of what the GLF and particularly the GLFX does and how people can engage in the various chapters, and more generally the modes of engagement. So over to you Anita. Thank you. Thank you Matias. I'm just going to quickly share my screen. Present. Yeah, welcome everybody. My name is Anita Moriagia and I am the Communications and Community Engagement Officer for the GLFX Innovation and GLF in general. Today I'll be talking to you more specifically about the platform that the TDP on Agroecology is on, and yeah, and also just GLF in general. So just a little rundown of what the Global Landscapes Forum is. The Global Landscapes Forum is known as the, is the world's largest knowledge-led forum on integrated sustainable land use. Just a couple of interesting facts. The GLF has connected more than 80,000 organizations, 60,000 youth, 90,000 governments, 275,000 people from 185 countries, and has had a global reach of over 1.5 billion people. The Global Landscapes Forum is actually made out of about five innovations, and I'll just briefly speak through each one, and then specifically speak about the GLFX Innovation. So, you know, there is the digital knowledge commons first and foremost. There is the youth, so pioneering youth leadership, and this includes restoration stewards and youth in landscapes. These are what we would describe as communities in action. There is the knowledge and learning innovation, and this includes the landscape academy. There is the sustainable finance team, and these, this is the sustainable finance team, and then lastly there is the GLFX Innovation. And this houses the Global Landscapes Forum chapters, and also the Global Landscapes Communities, Global Landscapes Forum communities of practice, and I'll chat a little bit more about what these two groups are. So the GLFX in short is one of, of course, the GLF's five innovations that I just said, but it's also, it houses two groups of communities. There's the communities of practice, and there's the GLF chapters, which are all housed on the GLFX platform. So a GLF chapter would be best described as a local community or network of organizations united by a geographical location and working to accelerate action on the ground. Whereas a community of practice is a knowledge-led community that is united by a common theme with the aim to produce and share knowledge. So to that effect, we have GLF chapters around the world. In total, we have about 10 in Africa. We have three in Latin America and the Caribbean, and then we have two in Asia. And these are our current GLF chapters right now. We have just closed our recent call for chapters in Latin America, so that will be growing quite soon. And we will be opening a new call for chapters in Africa on Friday, sorry, on Thursday, and that will also be a growing number. And these are the current global, the current communities of practice also on the platform. And of course, as we see here, there's the TPP as well. And so a key difference in sort of envisioning the platform is as much as it may be natural to us to engage on it as perhaps any other social network, they are awesome key differences. So whereas on any other social media platform that we usually engage on, people are usually connected by this interest in friendships, relationships, or perhaps a shared interest. The difference with a community of practice is that people are connected by their shared specialism, role or common goal. You know, whereas on any regular sort of social network platform, it doesn't necessarily require one-on-one or group interaction within a specified community. Whereas in this case, a decision to join a community is to deepen your understanding of a particular subject by interacting with it on an ongoing basis on the platform. Social media networks, of course, are a lot more casual and informal. You kind of go with what is being discussed at the time or what is on the top of your feed. Whereas the community of practice is a lot more structured and it requires a lot more commitment as well. And we'll hear a lot more about that from Fabio and Daria a little bit later. You know, of course, as a social media network, you know, it's self-generated content, what's trending at the time, I guess also depending on news or current happenings. Whereas with the community of practice, you know, this content is self-generated, it's planned, and it's also community-generated. It's also working with the community to also know what kind of content they would like in their community of practice and what they would like to engage in. You know, lastly, last two is, of course, a social media network, you know, it supports self-promotion and it broadcasts a very like one-way communication style. Whereas a community of practice is, you know, we really encourage a two-way sort of communication style, where there's a lot of participation amongst members, amongst the community of practice team, but also amongst, you know, the community of practice community as well on the platform. And of course, as we're all familiar on social media networks, you know, there's functions such as follow, friend, like, connect, share, subscribe, which create very loose links to one another. But you know, a community of practice, it takes a very detailed content calendar that's planned based on, you know, the learning needs of the community of practice. You know, events, networking workshops and such, all with the combined aim of furthering the knowledge of the community of practice. And so of course, the question at this point would be what value do communities of practice gain for active engagement on the GLFX platform, and this is where, you know, the connection with the other GLF innovations come in. And so of course you have opportunities to also engage in GLF's broader events, such as our conferences, other workshops that we're hosting, other innovations, whether it's sustainable finance, whether it's the youth team, whether it's the GLF chapters from across the world, whether it is the knowledge comments, you know, for example, we are having GLF Africa this week, and then also climate will be participating in COP 27 later on. And so there would be opportunities, you know, to participate in that in various ways. There's also the opportunities to engage communities of practice with chapter interaction. We have some very, very dedicated group of chapters across the world and they also have, you know, learning needs, and, you know, the ability to be able to facilitate that interaction and have that one on one interaction with the chapters is also something that's possible on the platform and also beyond the platform as well. And of course, you know, while COVID accelerated our remote working and use of the digital space, you know, the GLFX platform really closes down the distance between people and also the ability of communicating instead of, you know, writing in long sort of email threads, you know, community of practice can self organize and forums to have, you know, themes that they're discussing. You know, there can be newsletters that the community of practice can send out based on opportunities or events or things that are happening within the community of practice so really making use of the digital space. And so what I'm going to do right now is have a little bit of an interactive session, and I will sort of take you through what it would look like for you to join the GLFX platform. So as you can see over here, the website is GLFX.globallandscapesforum.org, and this is the sign in page that it will take you through, and it has all of the information of what I just sort of presented and an overview of some of the community news that's going on in the platform and of course, upcoming events we can see today's workshop on there as well. And so as you scroll through this, if you're wanting to become a member of the TPP community of practice, you would sort of, you would click join the movement, and it would take you to a sign in page. And of course, you know, as with anywhere else you sort of input your details, your name, your the email account that you would like to use for your account, and this area in particular is very important because this is sort of your profile on the page and what people would see is very important that you sort of fill this out quite, you know, it important that you fill it out as as fully as you can, and so that you know when people can sort of search you are searching for the area that you work in or your expertise. It can be quite, I guess, concise and and they can find you and ask you specifically about what specifically about what you're about I guess. So if you go sort of through this process and follow the instructions it will sort of give you an email that you will respond to and fill out your login details. But for the purposes of time I will also just log in to my account. Let's go and give you an overview of what the, the platform looks like. And so this is the homepage for the GLFX platform. And the great thing is is that, as you know, the more you engage on the platform the more it shows you what is new for you. So this is the homepage you see recently active users you see the upcoming events a live feed of the global GLF Twitter. And then there's also of course the homepage categories that you can produce at your at your disposal and here's the admin panel, not everyone will have that it's just because I'm the community manager. And what is really important if you want to join the TPP community of practice you will have to navigate to the page and join the TPP from there. So you'd go to groups, of course. And then these are shortlist of all the groups that I am part of. And then you would go to communities of practice and it will list all of them here. And of course you know the transformative partnership platform on agroecology. And for those of you who have not joined it will have the join button here. So of course you will click join, and it will automatically make you a member of that community of practice and of course you would go to the group. And, excuse me. And then yeah this is the TPP COP. So that's just a quick overview of, you know how to become a member of the GLFX platform, and specifically how to become a member of the TPP COP. And with that I think I will hand back over to Matias. Thank you. Thanks so much, Anita. That was very important and very interesting. I think it also answers some of the questions that I'm seeing in the Q&A window. For anyone who has just joined now I would like to remind you that you can make use of this question and answer window at the bottom, post questions and comments and the colleagues are answering them live already and we will highlight some of them in the subsequent Q&A session. Yes, we would go to a nice follow up to Anita's presentation and go a bit more into the interactive mode of the COP as well with Fabio and Daria, both communication specialists at C4ECRF and doing much of the wonderful communication work of the Agriculture TPP, who will guide us through a little bit of what the COP of the Agriculture TPP is all about, what features exist, how can you be part of it, what modes of engagement exist. So over to you Fabio. Thank you very much Matias. So let me just share my screen. Okay, so as Matias said I'm going to go a bit more into the core of today's workshop now the topic of this workshop is called activation of the digital community of practice. It's not that this community of practice has not been active so far, but we did not open it up to the general public and this is what we're doing today. Why are we doing this today? We had two very important events last year with very high participation and a lot of the participants requested to join the Agriculture TPP, sorry the Agriculture TPP community of practice space. In fact, we had received a lot of adhesions and with all the details but due to privacy issues we weren't able to immediately automatically sort of bring them in our family. So we had a long discussion about this with the people in the Agriculture TPP and we decided that the best way to welcome you on board was to prepare this activation workshop, to illustrate to you and to whoever was interested what we're doing and what are the upcoming novelties and explain, guide you step by step to be part of our family. So I hope that after this workshop a lot of you will register if you haven't already and let's get going. So, I need to already spoke a bit about what is a community of practice, how it differs from social media and so forth. I think what is really important that we keep in mind here is that we are starting from science. This is a community of practice that is dealing hand in hand with science. So here the, I think the keyword is really coming together, share and learn, but and co create, even though the keyword is not in the slide it will come up very often in my presentation so and value, what is the value of, you know, being in a community of practice rather than being in a generic Facebook group on Agroecology, I guess there's plenty of those. I think it's, it boils down to, of course, you can see my slide learning collaboration belonging, but it boils down really to creating a group, a family. I've been, I participate in many different social media groups and other similar things. And you really don't create that kind of, it's very rare that you create that kind of sort of family feeling and, and here, I think the idea is to try to go in that direction. Of course, with the aim of co creating knowledge, co creating science. So, and, and, and those are some of the values that come along with this, with this idea. So, we discussed in our, within the Agroecology TPP, a lot about the vision of our COP of our community practice. So, I really want to spend some time here in reading this out because we, we went, we had a brainstorming exercise with Lisa and Daria and others in the TPP, and we really chose these words carefully so what we, what we want to say is that this community practice, so the Agroecology TPP digital community of practice is an open space to discuss and bring to the forefront, Agroecology related topics, news and ideas, starting, of course, from the Agroecology TPP partners scientific that's really the, the starting point of course, where we're welcoming other inputs from anyone in the COP, but what we should keep in mind is that we're starting from science and specifically from the Agroecological Science that the Agroecology TPP partners are doing. As I said before, it does focus on creating knowledge from bottom up, so that's where it's a space where anyone is at par with scientists, so the farmer can speak with the scientists and also the general enthusiast on Agroecology can speak directly with our TPP members and we'll get back to that in a moment. It aims to bring Agroecology practitioners on the ground, farmers and farmer groups, scientists, researchers, and all those interested in Agroecology together to share and co-create knowledge in a way that is relevant, impactful and rigorous. I really want to stress these last three words, relevant, impactful and rigorous, so it has to be relevant, what we do and what we all do for everybody, and it has to have an impact, a positive impact of course that is, we didn't really stress it out but that was the idea and rigorous so the science behind it has to be hard science. And so rigorous, and it's a place where everyone's voice counts, as I said before, you're at par and it contributes to bringing both knowledge and implementation gaps to hinder Agroecology transition, so that's another thing that also Fergus was mentioning. It's not only knowledge gaps that we're really tackling but it's also implementation gaps so you might have the knowledge but there's a lot of other things that are hindering the Agroecological transition and that's where we want to really go into, we want to dive into. Okay, so what do we offer, now I'm going to talk about, I'm going to talk about this a lot during the presentation but at a glance we offer of course, you know, up-to-date Agroecology related news, success stories, resources, case studies, publications, videos, whatever, webinars, events, all in one place, all available to all the members, they're on our GLFX space. It's also, we offer a dialogue, so the exchange of knowledge and co-creation and peer-to-peer learning, as we discussed before. And also inside and outside perspectives on our related topics, so we want to encourage people to bring some critical reflection on Agroecology, on what we do, on what they are doing at a given moment. Also wider access to the GLFX network, as Anita was saying before, you're not, I mean once you join the GLFX platform, you're not limited to just staying into the Agroecology TPP group, you can join other groups, other chapters. And of course we have a privileged channel to GLF, so for example, as you see in my slide, we are also available, we are capable of giving you some free tickets for GLFX Africa 2022, which is in two days. So if you join our community practice today or tomorrow, we will be distributing to all the members free access to this event. And that's a place where you can do networking and follow a lot of very interesting discussions. And then of course, as I just said, it's an opportunity to network directly and connect with people not necessarily in GLF but it can be other people joining our network and farmers, researchers and start a conversation. So let's have a look at this. I need to browse a bit our our website but I'm going to go through a few of the things that we offer in detail. So this is the website we discussed it. Well, there's a very long URL but we've also made a short URL for convenience and that's where you can access our material. So this is the website features a live feed. Now anybody who's use Facebook will recognize the format very quickly it's very similar to Facebook you can post your news whatever it may be a link, a topic and argument reflection, and it's a wall where you can react that you can get comments to what you're posting you can also like you, once you log in on, and you create an account on jail effects you also get notifications of what you're posting so if people react you get, you get an email and, and you can also disable that you don't like it and so forth. We have our news section. Okay, and this is where you read about our upcoming things and also maybe post event reflection or some news about what we've done. So pads and other things. Of course there's the resource section where we have the media, the documents, the videos, whatever it may be. Also, there's the documents on how to formally join the TPP, and so forth. We have a forum. So this is your typical form where people can pitch a topic and then all the related our discussions on that topic are our channeled. It's very different from a live feed live feed. You know, it's a wall you're going to lose track of things after a few days. A forum is for more permanent discussion, something that becomes sort of you build knowledge and sort of a resource that you go back to. Our events, we run quite a number of events per year and some, most of them are public and they are in three languages to try to be as inclusive as possible. And we are about to release a newsletter. This will be quarterly. So I think our first issue will be this September. And it's going to be all about the Agroecology TPP. What we do, so there's going to be a main article under the spotlight and other news upcoming events. A section specific on the Agroecology Coalition, Fergus spoke about it, its importance on the political side and all our TPP partners, their updates and so forth. Signing up is very easy. You just go to our website. There's a nice button that says newsletter and you just, if you haven't signed up yet, please do so. Email address, first name, last name, organization, country, subscribe, and you're in. Okay, now, let's start talking a bit about some of the features that we've been thinking about now one of the things that has happened to us. What keeps on happening when we do our events is we get flooded by questions. We've had some events where we talked more than 150 questions. And this, of course, is extremely interesting for us and it's also extremely stimulating. And it did pose us the question or sort of a made us think that we should have probably created a document which a FAQ, which we call FAQ frequently asked questions on Agroecology. So you can see here in the bullet list of a number of the standard questions we got in the past, like, you know, how, how can countries that are still locked in the agrarian reform paradigm move towards Agroecological reforms. What are common obstacles to the implementation of agroecological processes and probably some of the questions, some of you have been writing in our Q&A window are similar, or if not exactly the same. So we are now distilling these hundreds of questions. So I think we've talked 200 or even more if we sum the different events we've done. And we are trying to make a streamlined document that will have a clear cut defined answers for the most frequent questions we get. And then on the other questions less frequent we will treat in a different way. So we're working on that and that's going to appear on our community of practice very soon. So stay tuned on that. Okay, and then we're also discussing with GLFX a number of upgrades that we would like to see in our platform. So, as I said, you can disable notifications but maybe we can get a more refined customization of the notifications in the community of practice. We're thinking about an interactive calendar, some shared folders that you can populate, some chat functions that might be useful for us, some data collection tools I saw. I was looking at the Q&A before and I saw somebody was asking about this so we're definitely thinking about it. Now, not all of this will be immediately available, we're still brainstorming on this. Online dashboards so that you can immediately see what we're doing, where it's being done. And, you know, things like this tagging on live feed so that even if the live feed as I said before is a bit confusing. After a while, if you tag appropriately some topics then you can easily search for them and things like this. So it's really this is, we're really thinking about how to improve the platform per se so that everybody has a better user experience. But then we're also thinking about innovations. Now, one of the things we really discussed a lot about before running this workshop is how can our community of practice be different from the other community of practices and you know, Facebook groups or other places, digital spaces where people get together. Now, and so this brainstorming exercise was carried out to quite an extensive period I would say we've discussed it at length, and we came up with a list of things. And you can see them here listed and I'm going to go through them very quickly, giving you some ideas of what we're thinking. And then I'm going to ask you, the people in the room to tell us what you think about this list and also what you think if you have other ideas. So we're going to do some polls after this slide. But let me go through this slide a second. So, Agriculture TPP, COP is really all about co-creation so we really, this is your time. We want to really respond to your needs and to your ideas and to your suggestions. So this list, as I said, is a list that came up out of our own brainstorming but we're going to also ask you if you have further ideas some other innovations. Let me go through these. So one of the things we thought is, why don't we book a session with one of our scientists like on a monthly basis or a bi-monthly basis. So, you know, it's a walk-in room kind of thing. You know that at that time of the day, on that month, there's a scientist from the, you know, from the Agriculture TPP waiting in the chat or in the forum or somewhere for one hour or two hours what it is to answer questions. Anybody can come in, they can chat with the scientists. So that's one idea. Another idea we had is, let's, why don't we do some innovation challenges. So there's some pressing topics and issues on Agroecology and you, the people from the Community Practice can propose your solution, your idea, how would you tackle that topic? How would you tackle that issue, that problem? What is your agricultural approach? And then we vote. Case studies examined. So we, of course, we publish case studies on our website and so best case scenarios and kind of things and, you know, success stories. What if we walk you through them? So why don't we take one and really analyze it in depth? You know, we started from here and this happened and this happened and we can have, you know, some reflection around this. Then we thought you request a workshop. That's one of my favorites. You know, you just, we build critical mass. People in the Community Practice want to know about the topic. We organize a workshop. After we get, you know, 100 requests, we just organize a workshop on that thing. That's it. Polls and quizzes. So if you're into that kind of thing, because some people like, personally I do, I love learning with quizzes. It's just so much more fun, rather than, you know, reading like a lengthy paper, which is also interesting, but it's not that engaging. I love it when I get pitched the question. And I'm like, I don't know the answer. Let me guess. And let's see what happens. So we can, if you're interested, we could create, you know, a monthly quiz or a weekly quiz or whatever by monthly quids. And you test your, your knowledge and let's see how you go crowdsourcing pages and contents. So we thought does. Is there a wiki on agroecology? Is there? Is there not? Would you like one? That would be interesting. I mean, agroecology is all about bottom up. Building bottom up and, you know, Wikipedia has been running for 20 plus years and why not. Let's create a wiki on agroecology. Controversy is explained. Now, this I discussed with Lisa a lot. I think there's a lot of controversy around agroecology, certainly in certain areas of the world. Sorry for the noise, that's my cat. Certain episodes have been very controversial. I won't make any names right now. Sorry, the cat is, he wants to play. Why don't we tackle these controversies? Why don't we go through them one by one, you know, on a monthly basis or whatever and we really try to try to analyze them from different perspectives because usually when we look at agroecological controversies, they're not only about agriculture. There's so much going around. There's all the political part, there's all the social part and so forth. So that could be something and you don't often see this happening on, you know, that some communities or practices or organizations really take a stance on some of the controversies because it can be tricky and complicated. Okay, weekly focus on a forum. So anybody in our community to practice can pitch a topic on a forum, but sometimes these might go sort of empty and not really get any traction. So maybe we can create a focus, a weekly focus or a bimonthly focus or a monthly focus on the forum and then we sort of, everybody focuses on that thing. And then we sort of all engage on that thing. Interactive online map. We're thinking we are going to work on an interactive map that displays all of the agroecological other, sorry, agroecology TPP projects. But then it would be really nice if this is opened up and anybody in the COP can actually input what they're doing and where, and then we could categorize. So these are the things are been doing from the TPP. These are the things that have been doing are, are being, you know, carried out by our COP members and so forth. So that's another idea. Oh yeah, I did already put the crowds so sorry, this is a double I had, I hadn't seen that I had a double so I'm done here. Okay, so these are the ideas that we were, we were discussing within ourselves. Now it's time to hear your voice. So you, I'm going to run a poll in a moment so the way you can interact with this poll is you either type on your mobile phone or in your computer slido.com. You put the code TPP COP, or you just very simply scan the QR code and just, it will bring you there. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to stop sharing a second and I'm going to pull up the, the polling. Just give me just one second and I'll be with you. Okay. All right. Here we go. So, I think, okay, I guess you can see the, the screen here. And let's start the poll. So, now the first question is not seeing your screen right now for you. Oh, you're not. Okay, sorry. Wasn't that happening. Okay, wait. Apologies for this. Oh, sorry. I hadn't pressed share. Okay. There we are. Now you should be seeing it. Yes. Okay. Apologies for this. All right. So, okay. No, sorry. So, which of these innovative features should we implement first in the agroecology TPPs community of practice so I'm going to scroll through this. Sorry, I need to hide the results. Sorry, periodic monthly or bi-monthly online session with a member of the Agroecology TPP. Propose a weekly focus topic for the form, quizzes and polls, innovation challenges on pressing issues, case studies examined, interactive online map of the Agroecology TPP projects, crowd sourcing, topic pages, basically a wiki page for the Agroecology for Agroecology, request a workshop on a specific topic and controversies explained. So, don't be shy. I see there's only 13 people who's been voting. I know it takes some time to go on the screen on the on the Slido website, but we have over 270 people in the room and I really want to see some answers coming in. It's very simple scan the QR code on your mobile phone, it will bring you there, or if you're on a computer just type Slido.com and just type the code TPPCOP and it will bring you into the space where you can vote. So, Matthias, I'm going to give them some time here, because I think we should encourage people to vote and, and I cannot move to the next question otherwise people stop will not be able to vote any longer. Yes, wonderful Fabio and thanks so much I think that is that is really interesting what you've been presenting and talking about. Maybe while people are answering some of the or going through the polls on Slido, and we can do like an interactive session between between Q&A and polls so to speak. And I would just like to thank everyone for all of your great questions and comments that we have been receiving so far ready it's it's really nice to see, even though in the beginning people were asking why the chat is disabled, we see the Q&A works people are people are interactive. And it's so nice to see how many people from different countries different backgrounds are here. I think this is what it should be all about that scientists farmers, people from from a small business and people from around the world get to interact and ask their questions and I think many of the questions you have been asking have been answered through some of the presentations and on the chat already. And there have been quite a number of questions regarding as to where is the TPP active people from Ethiopia people from India people from Pakistan people from many different questions. Countries asking is the TPP active in my country. So, regarding one of the features, an interactive online map that would certainly speak for that for people to get more visibility of who and what is is active on agriculture in their respective countries. And they have also been quite a number of questions on how to join the TPP, the COP etc I do think these have been adequately answered through the presentations. And there has been one question from Patrick Mayamba on how somebody can join the research working group of the Agroecology Coalition. Maybe Fergus can give a bit of insights on that, but otherwise I could also just let you Patrick and anybody else interested know that for for joining the Agroecology Coalition, it's a pretty straightforward process. If you go Google Agroecology Coalition you will find the website. And there you will you will see all the details on how you can join. Usually it's institutions or organizations joining and then when joining you'll be asked, which working group you would like to participate in. Fergus would you like to add anything to that. Otherwise we can also go to another question. I think that that's fine. But please, if you have any such questions do follow up by email at any moment, the people from the TPP see appear available to support you on that. Then Fabio, do you want me to continue with another question or continue with the polls first. I think it's nice that you're doing the question because people are really, I see the answers to this poll are coming in like one every two or three or five seconds and until I see it flattens out and nobody's answering anymore, we're not going to move to the next poll. In the next poll, everybody be prepared that we're going to ask you some ideas so there's not going to be any list. Great. So Fabio, please just let me know when you feel like there's a the curve is flat name basically. Fergus, if you can hear us, there's quite a number of questions by different people asking why is the difference between agroforestry and agroecology and of course also what are the similarities. And there are related questions around that of how agroecology relates to different terms and terminologies, but I would like to stick just the difference between agroforestry and agroecology and the similarities between that. And I think there's hardly anybody better in the world to speak on that. So Fergus, if you can hear us, could you could you just provide a short answer of where you see the similarities and differences between these two. Great question and of course there was a session at the World Agroforestry Congress in Quebec in July, which was specifically exploring that and in one of the answers to one of those questions in the chat I did put the link to a blog about that session so people might find that quite useful. And shortly there will be a recording of the session available and a longer piece, because there was polls during that session, and people did come up with a, the audience, several hundred people if you like on a statement about that interaction. So put very simply, agroecology, according to the 13 HLPE principles, is obviously about whole food system transitions and has those 13 explicit principles. Agroforestry is often agroecology, but it doesn't necessarily need to be. So you can put trees into a very industrial agricultural system. I mean so you could have eucalypts in a high input coffee system, for example, which might not meet a number of the agroecological principles. You can clearly have agroforestry that's not following agroecological principles. And on equally, you can have agroecology that doesn't involve trees, that the trees involved. You know, that where you do have trees in agroecology you tend to increase the opportunity for good agroecological outcomes because trees are functionally different from other components of agricultural systems they live longer, but deep root systems, there are many leafy canopies that are elevated. And there are complex interactions between how people access and use these resources according to gender ethnicity, and a range of other social and economic factors. So the trees really add potential to agroecology and some of the most well-developed agroecology practices and systems are ones that do include trees. So I hope that was a useful answer. Thank you very much, Fergus. That's not on me to judge, but I do believe it was. And indeed I think without agroforestry and trees, in many parts of the world, agroecology is next to impossible. But as you rightly put it, Fergus, agroecology is so much more than just one of the practices such as agroforestry. It's really about transforming food systems, taking also socio-economic and political and cultural dimensions into account. If I see the number correctly, Fabio, we're now at 87 poll participants and it doesn't seem to be going up much more. So would you like to continue? Yeah, let's go to the next one, even though I saw when you were saying that we... It went up to 88. Yeah, it went up to 88. But okay, the rate at which it's changing is very, very slow and we only have 20 minutes left and I do want to get more insight. So let me show the results. Okay, so here's what the people voted. You still have time to vote while I'm showing the results if you really, if you don't want to miss the opportunity. So you have case study examined, like in-depth examination of case studies is the first choice from people. Periodic online session with a member. I knew that was going to be a winner. So second place for that and request a worship on a specific topic. I think these are the ones which are preferred. And then we have all the others and I really want to thank people who have voted because this will give us a clear cut indication on what to prioritize. Having said this, I'm going to move to the next poll. So here it's really up to you. So what other innovative features would you like to see us develop in the Agri-Color GTPP COP? You can type whatever you want. We're going to see the list in a while but in the meantime, yeah, Matthias, I'll hand it over back to you to keep on going through some of the questions. Great. Thanks so much Fabio. And I think this is so important. Please do be creative and many of you have brought up really great ideas on the Q&A already make use of the Slido of the poll. Point to any direction that COP could be going and I think together we can make things happen. I would like to go to a question from Ed Bourgeois, pointing that the approach explained about the TPP COP seems rather top-down and pointing to a positive example from the US with regenerative Ag where scientists and farmers are really engaging quite closely to co-create different materials. And in this regard, I would just like to remind you that the TPP is a coverage platform and there's many projects which do have a much more empowering agency building and co-creative component with farmers in it and the TPP is of global nature. Nonetheless, I would like to give this question to Lisa if you're available in terms of what do you think what the TPP could be doing to be more empowering for farmers, more transdisciplinary, more engaging on the ground with the people who really make a difference in how food is produced. Can you see into my phone? Can you see what I just typed? No, I did not but if you type the answer, please read it out. I was responding to the poll and I was responding to what other features could be there. And I suggested we could have regional, like territorial regional chapters of the COP and find an option for setting aside some funding to facilitate some in-person meetings to ensure that we connect those two worlds as well. Like we are aware and we have listened to Fabio speak about the incredible opportunities that having a digital community of practice provides but then continuously making sure that it connects back to the ground and that it involves people who might not be as comfortable in the digital space and also keeping in mind that agriculture and agriculture in terms of its practices is land-based and is context specific so let's say for example if we look at while there are processes that can be scaled and processes that are similar for producing bocci for making use of existing resources that someone has in the farm has in the farm, that will be different according to where someone is from. So if there's a possibility for us to somewhat be able to have those localized but collective experiences and for us to be able to facilitate that and have a communication with the digital community of practice, I think that would be fantastic. And that's what I just wrote on the desired features. Thank you. Wonderful coincidence. Thanks so much, Lisa. And I think for everyone truly engaged in agriculture, this is extremely dear that farmers are in the center of everything we do. So any ideas you have on how the TPP and particularly the community of practice could be improving on that. Please point them out either now or later on, and by engaging, you're making a difference in this regard already. And then there's a question from Sakip Mahmood on whether or not the TPP provides training or courses or something similar to agriculture in this regard to agriculture. And I think some of the features that Fabio brought up already point in this direction already, even though it might not be exactly what Sakip had in mind in terms of somebody coming to the community and providing training. And I think this goes in the same direction. But still people like experts from the TPP are available for any kind of interaction that you would want. Lisa, is there anything you would like to add to that or Fabio? No, I think your answer is perfect. Alright, very well. Then we have a question from Enrico from Italy asking as to whether the TPP provides any support to organizations wanting to mobilize and promote the work of the TPP on the ground with the communities. So this goes in the same direction as well. How can communities and farmers be engaged? I think it's not easy for the TPP to provide funding for partners who want to do so. But by becoming a member of the COP, you're going in this direction as well. Maybe Lisa, you would have anything to add to that? I think I think this is a question also at several levels. So there's definitely so one of the things and I think I responded to the question and writing as well. We are definitely working on preparing information material about the COP and its features after the workshop because we wanted to include some of the results and some of the reflections emerging today into that leaflet. But the idea really is to outline in a way that is accessible, which benefit people have from using it. Both partners and I spoke about the different levels of engagement that exists. We have the partners, the forum members and the COP participants. We really look at how partners can use the platform to ensure that the way they do their science already is more connected. And it is an objective. Just perhaps also a side comment to your question on the TPP projects supposedly being top-down. I understand that it's very difficult to explain the complexity of the various projects that we have an holistic manner. But the people like within all of these projects really work very hard to be transdisciplinary and doing things differently. So there's a lot of different things that are being done to be very inclusive. We have very strong engagement processes that build on existing stakeholder mechanisms and networks to really learn from the mistakes that have been made also international development over very many years as in over decades. So there is a lot of that happening already. But the COP really also looks for how it can improve the scientists and the partners access and ways of doing things through the COP. So that will be one part of the leaflets that we're preparing. And the other side, if you will, is really looking at those features that we're developing that are accessible to all the users of the COP. We'll have that information material that can be used by everybody and can be shared by everybody and that will be on the website. But then beyond that, we do do like punctual support for specific activities. We often get requests for the TPP or some of the TPP scientists to help develop something to help think through something. We get approached by various people and you're very welcome to do so. So please come to us if you want to discuss something. If you have ideas, if you want to just brainstorm about something, please do. We'll try and find ways of accommodating and making time for that as well. And I think my answer was long enough. But please always feel free to reach out to us. We are always open. Thank you very much, Lisa. I think that answer was extremely important because I think this is what many people are interested and concerned about. Fabio, do you want to wait for a couple more minutes? I think we have 50 ideas in the pipeline and three people are still typing. So I'm going to show the results and I'm going to go through one by one really quickly. And then of course, we're going to take some time to think about what you all have shared with us. But okay, the screen is quite big. So it's going to be one by one. How to incorporate agroecology and curriculum at higher education institution? Oh, it's going to change if you keep on typing. Okay, I'm interested in evidence-based research in agroecology with fundings. So if there are courses, internships, okay, so courses listed. Okay, that's interesting. Yeah, pushing for having agroecology in curriculums, mobility, management of soil microorganisms. More workshops on agroecosystem services, provider insects. Okay, defend women and girls are not feeling in male's heads. Okay, networking of authorities. Okay, yeah. Farmer-led research and innovation in tier four on banana. Okay, influencing policy makers, farming engagement. We got a last one, storytelling. Okay, storytelling is actually quite good. I agree. Okay, let's see. I'm going quickly. Yeah, but I get interrupted. I need to block. I need to lock voting. Otherwise, I'll keep on. I'm sorry. But more soil restoration practices for us. Yeah, I wouldn't try and go down such a big list. Okay. I think what we need to do is to make this list available. We will. But perhaps organize it a little bit rather than think that we'll do it justice. Just, you know, just sort of scrolling through it. I'm aware we're sort of a little bit over time if I'm not mistaken. Not yet. We're not. Okay. Not yet. Good. But okay, yeah, I take your point. You're right. I just wanted to get a bit of a gist of what was being presented as potential innovations. I think some of these are actually very good. So thank you for having voted. Now, I'm going to go to the next one. So the next one is actually a word cloud. So, and it's really on topics. What topics would you like to see? What agroecology? Agroecology topics, sorry. Would you like to see discussed in our community of practice? So go ahead. Type. It's a one word kind of thing. One or two words. It's kind of generate a word cloud. I'm not going to show the word cloud until we get a few of the votes in. But Matias, so please back to the Q&A. Wonderful. Great, Fabio. And I think we've also seen from the Q&A already that quite a lot of topics are of particularly interest to the participants of today. So very much looking forward to seeing the results of that poll. In the meantime, let's go to another question. This one is from François Stebman. How can new technologies, including the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence, bring transparency to the agroecology food value chain? Now, we'd like to extend that question in terms of what is the importance and value of modern information and communication technologies to agroecological transitions general. There is some research going on in this regard on an agroecological transitions program. But maybe Ferga is also, Lisa, you have some points specifically in this regard. And I think this COP is an example of how ICT is important for agroecology, but more on the farming and connecting producers and consumer side, Ferga. Would you like to say a couple of words on that? Yeah. And before I do, just also to mention, there is a meeting next week on integrated past management for Fall Army Worm, which was addressing one of the things that was coming up in the scrolling there. And you can, if you look on the new section in the website, you can connect to that. There's a section on agroecological control on next Wednesday. So that's just for people to know. Yeah. And this goes back to this whole question about who is involved and how are they involved? How do we make co-creation reality? And it's not just through a digital platform like this, it's through all sorts of things. And we need to recognize that digital platforms and and are both hugely a huge opportunity, and they're also hugely dangerous from an agroecological perspective, because they're very power in order to collate information and to make certain information available. All comes down to how things are controlled and the extent to which a platform is democratic, the expect and who has access to it and so on and so forth. And that's why the Million Voices Citizen Science Campaign is such an important part of what the TPP is doing now. And that's trying to make science genuinely transdisciplinary and not just a range of stakeholders being involved in the process of the science, but also in its evaluation and its interpretation and in setting the agenda. Now, obviously, ICT tools give us much more scope for doing that with much larger numbers of people, much more diverse groups of people, but it's not trivial to organize for that to be done in ways that are genuinely, genuinely empowering for people rather than ending up with a centralization, collation of power. So I think this is a really exciting space, one where we need to be really aware of the political economy of how information is used, but it's an exceedingly important and exciting part of what needs to happen over the next few years. And the critical thing is will we be able to generate and create opportunities for people to use digital platforms in ways that empower them or will they get overtaken by centralizing forces that will tend to operate to disempower people. So it's really incumbent on us to have sure that there are exciting platforms that empower rather than disempower, and if we can help to people and facilitate the creation of those, then we'll be going some way to doing that. Thanks. Thank you very much, Fergus. I hope that was a good answer to the people who were concerned about that and I think it's really pointing the right direction. Fabio, also seeing how time flies, I think I would probably hand it over to you and we can see there's quite the dynamic in the cloud of words already and we can see again that there's different terminologies flying around, so I think this is certainly something the TPP can engage strongly, like also suggested by Les Levydorf in the Q&A, the translational tasks between different approaches to making out food and agricultural systems more sustainable. But over to you Fabio on the poll. Thank you Matthias. Yes, so I turned on the word cloud so people could see it and now that you can see it, you can also upvote some of the words that you can see, so that and that's how you got some of them with more votes and they look bigger, but it gives a clear cut idea of what the people would like to discuss. I think the question that was discussed a minute ago to which Fergus gave an answer was absolutely super interesting and one of those things that I would like to see in a forum on our COP, how do you make use of ICT, but not only ICT now we have artificial intelligence in the agricultural space, what are the power dynamics, what are the technical difficulties, what are the potential benefits and so forth, I mean that's just opening it up to a whole new level I think, so I think this activation worship is giving a bit of an idea of what kind of discussions we would like to have, it's really super interesting, so apologies for those who are typing at the moment, I'm just going to go to the last question, the last question is why would you join the agricultural TPP community of practice primarily to learn about agriculture or to share your knowledge or co-create knowledge, participating in events, networking and connecting or to address controversies, so feel free to put in your, the main reason why you would join our group and yeah I'm going to leave it so that you can see the results why they come in, Matias over to you, I hope the webinar will not cut us out so that maybe you can have another two or three minutes of discussion on the on some of the questions, apologies for those who are online if we're a few minutes late but I think maybe we can address one last question when, while the poll is going thanks so much Fabio, indeed it seems like it's not cutting off automatically after one and a half hours so we seem to be safe on that and I think it's great that we can continue a bit longer for everyone who's willing and able to stay for just a couple of minutes, you're very welcome, thanks so much for being here I have a question here from Marcella from Brazil asking why is Brazil absent from the Agroecology Coalition despite its importance in global agri-food systems and very strong movement and initiatives on agroecology, Fergus would you like to allude to the question of why Brazil is not yet a member of the Agroecology Coalition, but far be it from me to suggest how or why different countries may wish to join obviously the country joining as a country which is different from organizations within a country joining is of course a political process and in general it is being done through the representatives of countries at FAO in Rome, the ambassadors to to Rome of the countries, of course in big countries like Brazil it's also possible that subnational entities might join like states or in other forms so I guess the short answer would be that the authorities in Brazil have chosen so far not to join the Coalition, we can actually have a look at whether they've joined other coalitions, I mean some countries haven't joined any of the coalitions, obviously it is open for them to do so and you know depending on the you know the nature of the the official government view they may or may not choose to do so and of course they can do so at any time and of course countries could also withdraw should they should they change their view so I guess it's to do with that process, in general the number of countries is growing steadily and gradually, I think what's really important now actually is not how many countries are members but the ones that are start doing something and there's action on the ground so that would be where my priorities would be of course there is a great deal going on in relation to agroecology in Brazil, we had a couple of Brazilian farmers in the World Agroforestry Congress panel discussing that nexus between agroforestry and agroecology and Andrew Michalis who's the C4Icref country representative in Brazil has just started quite a large Amazon project with TNC in Parastate which is a very integrated approach to agroecology so there is lots going on but it's a political process in terms of countries joining, thanks. Thank you very much Fergus and I think that was important not just for Brazil but more generally how many countries are joining is not the most important thing getting action going and so many organizations from different countries are joining. Lisa you would like to say something? Yes just if I may add something so the TPP we currently support the secretariat of the coalition and we have realized that sometimes it helps when there are specific contacts within countries that are approached by the coalition secretariat directly which the secretariat is perfectly happy to do so this is an offer that the secretariat is willing to be responsive if participants now today in the event or others have contacts within their countries or organizations that they think can be approached and might be interested in being approached by the secretariat secretariat is happy to do that as well thank you. Very well thanks a lot Lisa I think that's very important and I see with 63 active participants in the poll we seem to have reached a saturation point so Fabia over to you. Thank you Matthias yes very quickly people voted now 64 so as soon as you say we've reached the point it goes up one up so it's pretty funny okay but we can see that the vast majority will be joining us to co-create knowledge which I am really happy to hear because that's really the core of our COP and then of course learn about agroecology networking and so forth so I really hope that this activation worship gave you a bit of the feeling of how this co-creation of knowledge could happen of course the digital space is a bit different but we will organize workshops and other things there are modalities as per your request so I'm going to take off my screen now hand it over to Matthias for the closing remarks and I thank everybody for having joined us and for having voted over. Thanks so much Fabio and particularly thanks to everyone who has been here today actively participating this is what a COP should be all about so thanks a lot and I think with this it's it's a starting point for more and more engagement please reach out at any moment and people are there to support in whichever way they can and also please be aware that the GLF Africa is coming up and every COP member is eligible for a free ticket should you have any issues in this regard please do contact the people on this call today because I have seen some questions in this regard in the Q&A that there have been issues with free tickets and also the recording of this event will be posted online and as said before if we receive a lot of requests for doing a similar workshop again we would be delighted to do so and also please do join the TPP on the GLFX platform go to the news section there's quite a lot of interesting events coming up and this includes smaller ones and participation of the TPP at large events like of course the climate COP in channel shake CFS 50 in Rome the Asia Pacific forum mentioned before and transforming agri-food systems and should you have any questions in this regard please reach out because I have seen from Ellie Decay for instance Lisa what how is the TPP at which event at the climate COP active etc I think all of the questions you've posted in the Q&A if they haven't been answered already they will be answered in due time and people will be notified by email with this I would just like to thank you again very much for participating please continue engaging promote the idea of this TPP COP among your colleagues and friends the more we are the better transformation only happens if we work together thank you very much and have a wonderful morning day or afternoon depending on where you are thank you thanks for everybody bye bye thank you all the best