Background document for the GFAR Steering Committee meeting in Montevideo (August 2008): the Declaration of the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy (Rome, June 2008)

Report on the roles of GFAR and the CGIAR as elaborated in the CGIAR Change Management Process

Report on GFAR activities January-July 2008

Minutes of the 20th GFAR Steering Committee Meeting held in 2007 in Beijing.

GFAR aims to improve the global flow of agricultural research information and information and communications management for agricultural research for development through four inter-related actions: 1) Awareness, sensitization and advocacy to National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) leaders and policy makes for increased and improved investment, both financial and human capacities, in information and communications management; 2) Capacity development in NARS information managers; 3) Greater coherence and integration of agricultural information systems; 4) Improved governance of informat

Plenary session on sub-theme 2: Innovations in institutional arrangements