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Food Systems Summit Synthesis Deep Dive Reports

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / admin / October 18, 2022 / Agriculture, Children & Youth, Culture & Ethnicity, Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, Equality & Justice, Food security, Food Systems Summit, Gender, Global Networks, Health & Well-Being, Human Rights, Race

Blue Marble Evaluation (BME) teams have been working to synthesize themes across the hundreds of Independent Dialogues, resulting in the following reports: Interim Synthesis Report 1: Based on the initial 17 feedback forms, presents a generative and illustrative set of emerging themes. Interim Synthesis Report 2: More than 100 Independent Dialogues have produced 10 guiding themes. Final Synthesis […]

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Regenerate Costa Rica + Blue Marble Baseline = Learning by Doing

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / June 2, 2021 / Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate, Health & Well-Being, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Regeneration, Sustainability

Regenerate Costa Rica is an initiative by the University for International Cooperation launched in 2018. The initiative brings together a community with multiple capacities in order to reflect, plan and activate projects that enable the country’s transition towards a regenerative paradigm. Given the realities of the anthropocene playing out across Costa Rica (one of the most

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Transforming Food Systems with Beacons of Hope

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / December 16, 2020 / Agriculture, Food security, Global Networks, Principle 6: GLOCAL

Summary: Around the world, an extensive network of people and initiatives are transforming food systems. Beacons of Hope: Accelerating Food Systems Transformation is a project by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food that aims to amplify the power and potential of transforming food systems to address critical global issues such as climate change, biodiversity, equity,

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Food and Agriculture Systems: A Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / February 5, 2020 / Agriculture, Food security, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Sustainability

In writing about transformation in Blue Marble Evaluation, I quoted Million Belay, coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, who said: “At last there is a realization that change, fundamental change in the way we are living, is needed.” I met Million at an international conference on Transformation hosted by the University of Dundee in 2017.

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The Global Alliance for the Future of Food Makes History with Formal Adoption of a Theory of Transformation

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / January 30, 2020 / Agriculture, MQP Musings, Principle 13: Theory of Transformation, Principle 3: Transformational Engagement

The third overarching Blue Marble Evaluation principles concerns transformational engagement: Engage and evaluate consistent with the magnitude, direction, and speed of transformations needed and envisioned. That leads to the Blue Marble Theory of Transformation operating principle: Design and evaluate transformation based on an evidence-supported theory of transformation. For the last 25 years, design, planning and evaluation have

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Thinking in Transformational Ways at a Time When We Urgently Need To

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / January 17, 2020 / Agriculture, Collaborative Crop Research Programme, International Development, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Sustainability

This article by McKnight Foundation International program director Jane Maland Cady was originally published by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and adapted here with permission. Summary: The McKnight Foundation has supported the first of the Blue Marble Evaluation innovators — from Michael Quinn Patton and the World Savvy team, to the evaluators embedded in the Global

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