Knowledge & Change Spotlight: small holders, markets and globalisation

Perspectives and knowledge in the realm of small holders, markets and globalisation

The ‘spotlight session’ provides a daily preview of key events of our upcoming Knowledge Dialogue. Today we highlight the roundtable entitled Perspectives and knowledge in the realm of small holders, markets and globalisation. This workshop will focus on how smallholders and their organisations use knowledge and make effective choices, in the realm of markets and globalisation. It builds on the morning plenary session and the side event held on 28 September 2010 on producer agency and the development agenda of “making markets work for the poor”.

It deals both with the construction of knowledge, and the sort of change that can come from improved interpretive capacities of smallholders and people who work and
trade with them. Diego Muñoz of Mainumby-Ñakurutú in Bolivia will set the scene and describe the process that led to the establishment of a global Learning Network on smallholder agency in the globalised market. Other speakers will be Sudhirendar Sharma (Knowledge Networking for Rural Development in Asia/Pacific Region), Falguni Guharay (Servicio de Información Mesoamericano sobre Agricultura Sostenible) and Lorenzo Castillo (Junta del Café).

Date: 29 September. Time:14.00-15.45 hours. To participate in the Knowledge Dialogue, you can register here.