This report includes briefing papers on five of the most important issues that African agricultural research and development institutions will have to address during the SCARDA Implementation Phase. The papers are:
- Agricultural Innovation Systems, by Barry Pound and George Essegbey
- Gender and diversity in sustainable agricultural research and innovation: Issues, challenges and the way forward by Valerie Nelson, Adrienne Martin and Aissatou Drama Yaya
- Agricultural Information Management by N. Nathaniels, R.I. Lamboll, M.A.C. Conroy and A. Youdeowei
- Climate change and agricultural development by Tim Chancellor, John Morton, Ramadjita Tabo and Ralph von Kaufmann
- Crop biotechnology and biosafety by S.Seal, A. Sangare, M. Makinde