Global Forum on Agricultural Research. Plan of Work 2009-2010

GFAR is not a stand-alone institution, its actions are delivered through the many organizations, networks and agencies involved in, and accountable for, the generation and use of agricultural knowledge for development ¿ i.e. the partners represented in this Global Forum. This Plan of Work brings coordinated actions to truly link agricultural science and society around the world. In 2009-2010, GFAR will bring concerted global action to bear in the four key areas of its operation: advocacy for change, institutions for the future, inter-regional partnerships, knowledge for all.

V Foragro International Meeting, Montevideo 2008. Institutional Innovations for Promoting Agriculture With Knowledge in the Americas of the XXI Century. Declaration of Montevideo 2008.

We, the participants of the V FORAGRO Meeting, in our capacity as such, consider that in order to achieve food security, face the challenges of agriculture and rural development in the current context, reduce rural poverty, increase food production and quality, improve the equity in the distribution of production profits, prevent negative impacts on the environment and preserve and make good use of the natural resources in the Americas, it is necessary to promote agriculture with knowledge and to adopt the perspective of innovation, which requires undertaking innovations in the technologica

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