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  1. 1. ICAR invites all Indian NARIs and universities to join CIARD  The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has formally invited all ICAR Institutes and all Universities to join the “Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development” (CIARD) initiative (http://www.ciard.net…
  2. This paper by the Global Authors’ Team (GAT) has been commissioned by the Global Forum on International Agricultural Research (GFAR) as an input into the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) being held in, Montpellier, France between March 28th and 31st 2010. It…
  3. As new abstracts for the ISHS-ProMusa symposium in China in September still keep flowing in, we have decided to extend the deadline for abstract submission to March 31. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 20.Everyone is invited to submit one or more abstract(s) for oral or poster…
  4. The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative, for which GFAR and FAO provides a hub facilitating linkages between the many organizationsinvolved, was officially launched on August 26th 2008 during the World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT…
  5. 1. Background Attention to forest ecosystems has increased recently, in part due to the pressing twin concerns of climate change and environmental pollution and work to improve them is increasing, particularly multi-stakeholder approaches to integrated forest protection and development. Forests in…
  6. 3rd GFAR Program Committee Meeting  The 3rd GFAR Program Committee (hereafter, PC) met on 28-29 November 2007 in Beijing, China. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, Chairman, GFAR in his welcome address to the members of the Committee traced how the GFAR retreat at Alexandria, Egypt had resulted in the GFAR…
  7. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, the Chair of GFAR, has represented the Global Forum at several international meetings over the last six months.From 3 to 7 December 2007 Dr. El-Beltagy was at the CGIAR Annual General Meeting (AGM07) in Bejing, China; from 26 to 28 February 2008 he…
  8. During its annual meeting in Beijing, China, in December 2007, the Programme Steering Committee of the Generation Challenge Programme adopted a new Executive Board mechanism to ensure that the Programme is governed by a panel of experts who are independent of the consortium members implementing…
  9. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) will welcome some of the worlds leading agricultural research experts to its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Beijing, China, from December 3 to 7, 2007. Over 1,000 AGM07 participants will explore how agricultural research and…
  10. See a short report in the GFAR Newsletter.Highlights GFAR presentations GFAR Secretariats Report on Activities in 2007 Report of the GFAR Programme Committeesubmitted to the GFAR Steering Committee Our Global Forum: The way forwardDr. Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary, GFAR Global Forum’s…
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