The GFAR 2006 Triennial conference was inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India. The President, who is also a well known scientist, presided over the opening ceremony. In his address to the delegates, he focused not only on the importance of science and…
GFU-ICUC side event at the CGIAR Annual General Meeting
On 5 December, the International Center for Underutilized Crops (ICUC) and the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species (GFU) organised a lunchtime event to discuss the “Future of Underutilized plants research and development…
Following the launch of YPARD during the GFAR 2006, YPARD was invited to particiapte in the 5th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for ACP Agricultural & Rural Development organized by CTA in Wageningen, The Netherlands in December 2006. At the end of the meeting…
For years, IFAP has been insisting that agriculture research has to be farmer-focused. It must solve the problems farmers face both in production and in marketing. The 3rd Triennial Conference of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) that took place in New Delhi, India, 9-11 November…
EFARD organised the event “Dialogue on European initiatives and financial support to agricultural research for development”, which was held on the 8th of November as a side event during the GFAR Conference in Delhi. The objective of the side-event has been to present the on-going and planned…
After a highly successful organization of the Inter-regional Workshop on Advocacy and Inter-regional Collaboration for ICT/ICM in ARD in July 2006, in which representatives of all RFs, GFAR, FAO and other global agricultural information systems participated, APARIS focused its attention on issues…
AARINENA Executive Committee held its meeting in New Delhi, India on 8 November 2006.
The meeting was chaired by Dr. Ahmed Al Bakri President of AARINENA.
The Committee discussed and recommended the following:
Present the following amendments to the constitution to the next general…
A call for posters with the theme “Agricultural Research for Development: Evidence of Contributions to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals” was realized.
More than 40 abstracts were submitted and selected based on the following criteria: (1) Evidence of tangible contribution to MDGs; (2)…
The Conference produced a final Declaration whose full version can be downloaded from the GFAR 2006 website here: Delhi Declaration.Here is the first part of the Delhi Declaration: “We, the stakeholders of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), representing the following groups: Southern…
A Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) consultation was convened on 8th November prior to GFAR Conference 09-11 November in New Delhi India under the theme “Reinforcing CSOs Role in ARD: How CSOs can better inform Policy and Practice”. About 35 CSO representatives from all over the world…
