Objec ives:
¿ Mobilize NGOs at different levels into a strong consortium with
the capacity to engage in policy dialogue with the formal research
systems, with the aim of achieving sustainable livelihoods;
¿ Facilitate access to and exchange of relevant information to
influence…
Immediately after the third FARA General Assembly, the FARA Secretariat is hard pressed to live up to the Assembly's expectations and recommendations. It is keen on sustaining the excitement and motivation generated in Entebbe, Uganda last June 2005. The Assembly gave all FARA¿s stakeholders…
"Objectives: In the late 1980¿s and early 1990¿s much of Rwanda, western Kenya and southwest Uganda experienced recurrent bean crop failures, which resulted in a declining trend in bean production. The latter was associated with increase in incidence and severity of root rots. In response to…
Media Coverage of GCARD for 31 Marc-5 April 2010
1. Agence France Presse: Montpellier: les agriculteurs, partenaires incontournables de la recherche
2. Bloomberg: Researcher sees corn, wheat prices doubling by 2050
3. Reuters AlertNet (UK): A solution to hunger and climate change? Try…
“The fourth FARA general assembly, with its large, diverse and vigorous participation, provided a fertile source
of information and knowledge on the opportunities and problems currently facing African agriculture,”
Hon. Lulama Xingwana, Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs, Republic of…
In the September issue of the newsletter we reported that GFAR Secretariat in partnership with Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), supported a group of NGOs to enable them establish a sub-Saharan Africa NGO consortium which was launched during FARA 3rd biennial General Assembly held…
A two-man review team composed of Julian Gonsalves (India) and Oumar Niangado (Mali) are in the process of undertaking an internally commissioned review of GFAR's Global Partnership Programme (GPP) mechanism for promoting and learning about building multi-stakeholder partnerships. The team…
The 3rd Prolinnova Partners' Meeting was held from 5-10 March 2006 in Cambodia. Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun delivered the Keynote Address during the Opening Ceremony held at Juliana Hotel in Phnom Penh.
The annual event aimed to take stock of progress made by the various Prolinnova Country…