constructive coordinated action between all of these actors is therefore key general economic policies and investments including macroeconomics general education growth policies and broader rural development can all have significant positive spillovers for a number of challenges identified above such as food and nutrition security for example this is also evident from comparisons of the fast globallydriven growth and individual fossil fueldriven growth scenarios international cooperation in various areas trade and technological developments included has major implications due to the generation of income opportunities not least in developing countries agricultural innovation systems comprise not just investments in rd but also crucially include the whole framework of institutions and infrastructure which enable private and public rd as well as privatepublic partnerships to develop futureproof methods and technologies test and showcase these developments within the agriculture and food sectors and ensure their broad and international application