In his video address to GCARD, the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan highlighted that “our goal must be to support the small resource poor farmers and the people who rely on them”.

Montpellier, France March 29, 2010 Thank you and Good Evening to all.  I was recently appointed a Special Advisor to USAID Administrator, Dr. Rajiv Shah and to stand in for him at this meeting.

“If we can provide the farmers with |high technologies, or good technologies, that’s fine. But if we cannot, yten we must look into the farmers’ technology. Research should not be for the purpose of research or for the purpose of publications.

Guest post by: Dr Balasubramanian Ramani, Coordinator of the Young Professionals&#8217; Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) First I would like to thank GCARD organizers for the opportunity to attend along with 40 young professionals from various disciplines of &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/ypard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src=&

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Radio France Internationale ran a half-hour programme on March 31 on their environmental daily show called &#8220;C&#8217;est Pas Du Vent&#8221; devoted to GCARD. The programme was recorded in the studios of France Bleu in Montpellier, and featured studio guests Emile Frison &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/gcard-cest-pas-du-vent/">Cont… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

This statement represents perspectives of the young researchers at GCARD 2010, a group of 40 young male and female researchers from 26 countries who participated in the Young Researcher’s Seminar organized by the French Initiative for International Research (FI4IAR: a &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/statement-of-young-researcher… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Parallel sessions addressed systematic/strategic reform needs, action plan and framework components generated from the 2009 GCARD consultations. Discussion of key strategic needs across systems included: Better Benefiting the Poor through Private Sector Innovation and Actions Managing Risks to Farmers in a &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/change-for-agricultural-resea… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

On behalf of the NGOs Dr. Assetou Kanoute of the Association for Development of Production and Training Activities, Mali red the following statement: We appreciate the support that enabled the participation of NGOs at this first Global Conference on Agricultural Research &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/ngo-statement-at-gcard-2010/"… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary of GFAR, opened Day 3 of the conference by calling upon the participants for decisive collection action: “We’ve set the theme over the last two days.