The concept of launching ¿Global Partnership Programmes¿ (GPPs) resulted from the acknowledgement that although the world is faced with an increasingly complex challenge of feeding its growing population, scientific and technological progress is generating the knowledge to make it possible to meet this challenge while assuring an equitable and sustainable development. The capacity to respond successfully to this situation will have an impact on the well being of all societies, making it a global issue. Progress made in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) has increased opportunities for communication and interaction among stakeholders and researchers located in different places. In this context of improving communication and information technology and with the world facing a new scale of challenge, GFAR has launched a new genre of collaboration on agricultural research for development: the Global Partnership Programme (GPP)