2005 has been a very busy year for DMC, despite the fact that DMC continues t be in a
transitional phase of its short existence. Major activities such as case studies or even the
organization of the Third World Congress on Conservation Agriculture may actually be
considered as corresponding to some of the core functions of what the future ¿renewed¿ DMC network will need to undertake if it wants to respond to perceived needs for international networking. Compared to its original objectives, the main departure has been the provisional inability of DMC to link up with regional foras. Let¿s hope that this weakness will be tackled in the renewed DMC.