Introduction
Within the framework of the EU-funded TAP-AIS project,1 FAO’s Office of Innovation in collaboration
with the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) and the Asia-
Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services Network (APIRAS) is organizing a regional training on Multistakeholder
Policy Engagement targeting middle- and senior-level officials and managers in the
agrifood sector from the Asia-Pacific region.
The main objective of this training is to strengthen participants’ capacities to engage in policy
processes so as to realize the potential of innovation in agrifood systems. Specifically, participants
will learn to:
• Understand the role of policies in agrifood systems and in the context of agricultural innovation;
• Analyse policy issues and engage stakeholders around pressing policy issues;
• Organise multi-stakeholder policy dialogue; and
• Communicate with policy actors on key policy issues effectively.
FAO’s Office of Innovation – through its TAP-AIS project – has developed a multi-stakeholder
approach to policy dialogue to address policy issues in the context of agricultural innovation systems
(AIS). This workshop will apply and build on this approach.
