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 and Northern National Agricultural Research Systems, regional and Sub-Regional Organizations, farmers’ organizations, non-governmental organizations, private sector, international agricultural research centres and the donor support constituency, assembled during the 3rd GFAR general conference in New Delhi India, from 8th to 11th of November 2006, do hereby:
• Restate our commitment to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which have been endorsed by governments as a framework for measuring development progress and which currently constitute the focus of development efforts
• Reiterate our commitment to overcoming the challenges facing the global community, especially those related to poverty, food insecurity and the unrelenting degradation of our natural resource heritage.
• Acknowledge and commend current efforts to address these challenges at local, national, regional and global levels
• Realize that despite these on-going efforts recent reviews indicate that globally, the set targets are not likely to be reached by 2015
• Convinced that the growth of agricultural sector contributes significantly towards meeting the MDGs and affirm our commitment to reorienting ARD so that it contributes more effectively to meeting the targets.
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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 and Northern National Agricultural Research Systems, regional and Sub-Regional Organizations, farmers’ organizations, non-governmental organizations, private sector, international agricultural research centres and the donor support constituency, assembled during the 3rd GFAR general conference in New Delhi India, from 8th to 11th of November 2006, do hereby:
• Restate our commitment to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which have been endorsed by governments as a framework for measuring development progress and which currently constitute the focus of development efforts
• Reiterate our commitment to overcoming the challenges facing the global community, especially those related to poverty, food insecurity and the unrelenting degradation of our natural resource heritage.
• Acknowledge and commend current efforts to address these challenges at local, national, regional and global levels
• Realize that despite these on-going efforts recent reviews indicate that globally, the set targets are not likely to be reached by 2015
• Convinced that the growth of agricultural sector contributes significantly towards meeting the MDGs and affirm our commitment to reorienting ARD so that it contributes more effectively to meeting the targets.
[...]”