<p>GFAR Bibliographic database submission guidelines have been established to ensure quality metadata in the GFAR Document Repository. It is highly recommended to follow these regulations in order to produce consistency in the form of names of the catalogue access points. The guidelines have been established following closely bibliographic standards already widely promoted by FAO (i.e. AGRIS AP) and international standards (i.e. ISBD).They will remain alive opened to modifications or enhancements according to the users¿ requirements</p>

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential
component for development, not only of the agricultural sector, but also of industrial,
environmental, and service sectors as well. It is a crucial element in establishing the
sustainable development in any country.
Realizing the important role of ICT in creating a sustainable agricultural
development, AARINENA worked intensively during the last decade or so and has
committed to strengthen this sector and enhance its usage in the WANA region.

Research for Development:
The Basis for Global Conquest of Hunger and for sustainable Development

Within in the frame of the cooperation between the RAIS within the GFAR frame, the need
for a tool to condense and summarise information available on the web was identified. The
requirements for such a tool also referred to the Information Platform www.RUNetwork.de,
which provides both diversified information as also the opportunity for stakeholders from
ARD and rural development to publish on the web. The objective of this tool is to setup a
website, with selected articles from RUNetwork and other external websites

Under its Asia-Pacific Agricultural Research Information System (APARIS) initiative, APAARI proposed to GFAR to host the third inter-regional workshop on Information & Communication Management for Agricultural Research for Development (ICM4ARD) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The first such inter-regional workshop in 2004 at FAO-Rome identified the framework for ICM4ARD.

GFAR's function as a platform that facilitates and fosters global networks of agricultural research and development (ARD) stakeholders requires GFAR to have robust communication capabilities. GFAR¿s communication capacities must enable its stakeholders to discuss and act in partnership to resolve issues related to ARD across the world. GFAR should be capable of providing the necessary, relevant and useful information related to ARD issues to its stakeholders when and where they need it in a form that is easily accessible to them.

The meeting was called by ICUC with the objective of discussing the possible establishment of a European Centre (Network) for Underutilised Crops