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Useful Background information
List of all 520 authors, editors and reviewers of the reports from 86 countries
Graphics from the IAASTD report in sufficiently high quality are available from the GRID/Ardenal website in collaboration the UNEP

Full reports in English

Draft Reports

As the final reports are presently under embargo and no longer available at the official website of the IAASTD we provide you here with last draft versions, which had actually not been subject to amendments during the final plenary in Johannesburg. Please note that all of these documents are drafts not for citation.
The adopted Executive Summaries for Decision Makers of the Chapters and of the Synthesis Report are available on the official website of the IAASTD

Print copies of the full reports can be otained from Island press

Synthesis Report
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Global Report

Chapter 1: Context, Conceptual Framework and Sustainability Indicators
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Chapter 2: Historical Analysis of the Effectiveness of AKST Systems in Promoting Innovation
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Chapter 3: Impacts of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology on Development and Sustainability Goals
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Chapter 4: Outlook on Agricultural Change and its Drivers
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Chapter 5: Looking into the future for agriculture and AKST
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Chapter 6: Options to Enhance the Impact of AKST on Development and Sustainability Goals
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Chapter 7: Options for Enabling Policies and Regulatory Environments
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Chapter 8: Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology: Investment and Economic Returns
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Sub Global Reports

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) SPANISH

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Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) ENGLISH

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  Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA)

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North America and Europe (NAE)

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  East and South Asia and the Pacific (ESAP)

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Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
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