Building partnerships, empowering champions: The example of the Cornell Alliance for Science

Building Partnerships, Empowering Champions: The Cornell Alliance for Science

FAO Feb 17, 2016

Sarah Evanega (snd@@cornell.edu)@sarah_evanega

Biofortified rice

Biofortifiedbananas

Pod borer resistant cowpea

Water efficient maize

Polled cows

The Science Enabling Environment

Capacity Building

Research

Policy & Regulatory

Community Engagement

The Cornell Alliance for Science seeks to promote access to scientific

innovation as a means of enhancing food security, improving environmental

sustainability, and raising the quality of life globally.

What We Believe

We believe that real science and evidence should influence decision making around agricultural biotechnology. We are pro-science, pro-access, pro-public sector, and pro-poor.

What We Do

We are working to unite, engage, and empower a network of partners with grassroots and communications strategies that can be used to advocate for increased access to biotechnology.

Three Core Strategies

1. Establishing a global network of partners who share the mission of solving complex global issues by leveraging biotechnology.

1. Training with a purpose so that partners are well equipped with the tools to advocate for access to biotechnology

1. Shifting the narrative to a message framework that targets misinformation and lays out a clear and concise argument in support of biotechnology

6200+ science allies engaged in 109 countries

Three Core Strategies

1. Establishing a global network of partners who share the mission of solving complex global issues by leveraging biotechnology.

1. Training with a purpose so that partners are well equipped with the tools to advocate for access to biotechnology

1. Shifting the narrative to a message framework that targets misinformation and lays out a clear and concise argument in support of biotechnology

“Our family farm saw the benefits of

biotechnology for small scale farmers.”

-Joni Kamiya, Hawaii

“Every field is using scientific innovation to

advance and there should be no exception

in plant breeding.” - Clet Masiga, Uganda

“Access to life improving technologies is a

matter of social justice.” –Jamie Foley,

Vegan GMO, USA

“How can I expect people to praise and

worship God if they are hungry and mired in

poverty?” Rev. Fr. Noli Alparce, the

Philippines

Data CommunicationsDigital TrainingGrassroots

Our Approach

Rev. Fr. Noli Alparce, Catholic Church-Philippines

Md. Arif Hossain, Bangladesh

Patricia Nanteza, Banana 21 project, Uganda