Following the development of the ¿Strategic Framework for a Global Post-harvest
Initiative-Linking Farmers to Markets¿ in October 2003, this initiative entered a ¿going
back to the regions phase¿ in which concrete activities would be carried out at the lowest
most effective level in accordance with GFAR¿s principle of subsidiarity. The strategy
adopted was to build the initiative on strong regional and sub-regional networks, new and
existing programs and projects, and partnerships created across disciplinary and
organizational divide. This process was initiated in the second semester of 2004 with
workshop organized in Bangkok by APAARI.