SIANI convenes Dialogues on Sustainable Agricultural Development to enable members and partners to investigate urgent issues and synthesise their understanding.

Dialogues are longer term activities, and can convene whole or parts of the network for analyses, debates, and planning conducted jointly by policy makers, practitioners, and researchers.

They can be implemented through workshops, seminars, stand-alone meetings, or as break-out sessions during international and regional events and conferences. However, they are always linked to concrete issues faced by practitioners and aim at providing timely and relevant outputs for tangible decision making windows of opportunity.

The content and form of each dialogue are determined by members, partners, Cluster Groups, Secretariat and members of the Steering Committee.

Strategic initiatives will be determined in the work plan to be completed and approved in August 2009.