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  1. Introducing a new initiative from Belgium: "TupperTerre”
    Over the last decade an average of 43 family farms are disappearing each week in Belgium. Implemented by the association Terre-en-Vue and supported by Prof. Olivier Deschutter, the aim of TupperTerre is to  facilitate the access to land for new producers in Belgium and to address the critical…
  2. CIMMYT’s Bram Govaerts Receives 2014 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application
    The 2014 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation was presented to Dr. Bram Govaerts during the awards ceremony of the World Food Prize (WFP) Borlaug Dialogue international symposium.   The third annual US $10,000 award given by the World…
  3. CAAS to open its first overseas joint laboratory in Europe
    Source: CAAS Quarterly Newsletter   In November 2013, the Vice Minister of Agriculture and CAAS President Li Jiayang and his team paid a visit to the VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University. Li signed a memorandum of understanding with Ghent University, aimed…
  4. Brussels Development Briefing
    The ACP-EU technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the European Commission, the EU Presidency, the ACP Group, Concord, and other partners organize regular development Briefing sessions in Brussels on key issues and challenges for rural development in the context of EU/ACP…
  5. EFARD Open Forum meeting
    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…
  6. Meeting development needs through horticulture
    Horticultural crops have enormous importance around the world, in ensuring nutrition, incomes, resilience to environmental change and fulfilling a wide variety of valuable purposes from foods and medicines to spices and flower crops for millions of people. However, work to improve these crops and…
  7. International Conference – Preliminary Announcement: Better linkages between Agricultural Research and Development for greater impact on Global Challenges
    Background In recent years, significant progress has been made in improving European coordination of Agricultural Research for Development through ERA-ARD, an EC funded project addressing national programmes for Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) in Europe, as well as EIARD (European…
  8. Draft Minutes of 24th Steering Committee
    <p>Draft Minutes from the 24th GFAR Steering Committee Meeting, Brussels, Belgium. 28-29 September 2010</p>
  9. Coordination Paysanne Europeenne
  10. Centre Europeen Des Jeunes Agriculteurs
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