Consultation organized by the
Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR), FAO of the UN (FAO), Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions APAARI), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Consultation held at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India, in…
Presented at the GFAR workshop on "Adoption of ICT Enabled Information Systems for Agricultural Development and Rural Viability" (at IAALD-AFITA-WCCA 2008)
Address by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, at the 3rd GFAR Triennial Conference in New Delhi, India, 2006.
The GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference with its theme ¿Reorienting Agricultural Research to meet the Millennium Development Goals¿ held in New Delhi, India from 8-11 November, 2007 was an important milestone for the GFAR. The Conference questioned the ability of current agricultural approaches,…
The GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference was held in New Delhi (India) from November 8th to 11th 2006. The theme of the Conference implicitly questioned the ability of current agricultural approaches to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially those concerned with the eradication of…
This report has been produced to provide a succinct overview of the global research activities on underutilised crops. It is aimed at policy makers, funding agencies and research administrators but it is hoped that it will also be of use to the scientific community.
The report results from a…
With its foundation firmly anchored in three core planks of the CGIAR Vision and
Strategy to 2010 ¿ giving highest priority to research needs of South Asia and adopting a
regional approach to research planning and integration of partnerships, a draft strategy for
the South Asia Regional Partnership…
Objectives: 1) To rationalize the management of insect pests of cotton in southern India, in terms of reducing the excessive amounts of pesticides that are currently applied. This is likely to have immediate beneficial effects on the health of the farming community, and on the agrobiodiversity of…
ILRI and ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) identified, through
GIS-based mapping, that smallholder dairy is increasing in importance in the HKH region.
Informal discussions with NARS, NGOs and Dairy Cooperatives in Nepal, Bhutan, Uttar Pradeah
and Himachal Pradesh of…