- The GFAR Programme Committee (PC) met in Rome the 10 -11 of November. Following the GFAR Steering Committee (SC) meeting, held in Brussels the 28-29 of September, the Programme Committee was responsible for reviewing the revised Roadmap and preparing it for finalization by the SC. The PC also…
- 15th Annual Meeting of the Neuchâtel Initiative organized by the Research and Extension Division of FAO The 15th Annual meeting of the Neuchâtel Initiative (NI) will be held from 18 - 22 September 2009 in the Domus Pacis Conference Center in Santa Maria degli Angeli (near Assisi, Italy). The…
- GFAR and its partners will be organizing a poster competition as part of the Science Forum 2009 Wageningen, The Netherlands on 16-17 June 2009. Theme: ICTs: Enabling Agricultural Science to be a Social EndeavorWe are interested in presenting how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)…
- After four years of implementation, the DURAS Project is wrapping up its activities. A project closing seminar is being organized under the auspices of GFAR on 11-13 June 2008 at the FAO Headquarters in Rome. See here for more information.
- Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, the Chair of GFAR, has represented the Global Forum at several international meetings over the last six months.From 3 to 7 December 2007 Dr. El-Beltagy was at the CGIAR Annual General Meeting (AGM07) in Bejing, China; from 26 to 28 February 2008 he…
- The High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy opened at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy on 3 June 2008. Throughout the three days of events, forty-two Heads of State and Government, one hundred high-level Ministers and sixty non-…
- Networking, collaborating and exchanging knowledge in agriculture, rural development and natural resources management Web2ForDev 2007 is the first conference devoted to exploring the ways in which international development stakeholders can take advantage of the technical and organizational…