- GFAR Chair, Juan Lucas Restrepo, and Harry Palmier, Senior Partnerships Adviser represented GFAR in its role of active member of the Friends of the Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture (ACSA) assembled under the leadership of the UN Secretary General’s special envoy, David Nabarro, at the…
- Agriculture has an image problem. Simply put, for the majority of the world’s youth, agriculture simply isn’t seen as being “cool” or attractive. Most think of it only as back-breaking labor, without an economic pay-off—and little room for career advancement. With an ageing population of…
- Climate Change is Real! says the lyrics of the song[1] which energized participants at the Regional Consultative meeting on the building of the Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture (ACSA), Hanoi June 8-11, 2014. The Governments of Viet Nam, South-Africa and The Netherlands co-…
- In preparation for the September 23rd Climate Summit organized by the UN Secretary General in New York, the Abu Dhabi Ascent took place on May 4th and 5th 2014. The meeting was attended by 60 participants from Governments, Regional Organizations, Civil Society, Business, and …
- The European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) has appointed new leaders: Martin Kropff as Chair, Alessandra Giuliani as Vice-Chair and Judith Francis as Executive Secretary. Reflecting these changes and new directions for EFARD, a meeting of EFARD stakeholders was organized…
- Harry Palmier represented GFAR in the Steering Committee meeting of GFRAS in Washington (15-16 April 2013). The Steering Committee discussed a number of items including the organization of the External Mid Term Review of GFRAS to be carried out between June and September 2013 by a…
- CTA has provided long term leadership in an international programme on Conversion of Science – System of Innovation (CoS-SIS) that supported the use of Agricultural Innovation System approaches in ACP countries, and in Benin, Ghana and Mali, in particular, through selected national researchers…
- Robin Bourgeois, Senior Foresight and Development policies Expert in the Executive Secretariat of GFAR, attended The Economist’s Conference “Feeding the World 2013, Accelerating Global Collaboration on Food Security”, in Amsterdam, January 30, 2013 as an invited delegate. The Conference, the…
- Highlights of this meeting included two inspiring keynote presentations: Prof. Sir Gordon Conway laid out the interconnected challenges towards feeding the world by 2050 in a sustainable manner and emphasized the need for different forms of sustainable intensification to meet future food needs.…
- The Economist Conference “Feeding the World 2013: Accelerating Global Collaboration on Food Security” will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 30th , 2013. Prof. Monty Jones, Chair of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, will be a keynote speaker at the…