Address by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, at the 3rd GFAR Triennial Conference in New Delhi, India, 2006.
The GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference with its theme ¿Reorienting Agricultural Research to meet the Millennium Development Goals¿ held in New Delhi, India from 8-11 November, 2007 was an important milestone for the GFAR. The Conference questioned the ability of current agricultural approaches, especially in research and innovation, to meet the Millennium Development Goals primarily those concerned with the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 and the maintenance of the world's natural resources integrity.
Presentation of GFAR at the Open Science Network Meeting on Partnerships, Innovation and Agriculture jointly organized by INRA and CIRAD in Paris on 3 June 2008.
Presentation of GFAR at the IFAP World Farmers Congress in Warsaw, June 4-6 2008. It focuses on the concepts of GFAR as a neutral platform linking science and society and creating and supporting effective, demand-driven institutions & innovation systems to meet the complex needs of sustainable agricultural development.
A CGIAR Science Council Policy Statement on Biofuels Production
Statement from GFAR to the FAO High Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, Rome, 3-5 June 2008.
This document defines the Global ARD Web Ring as a ¿voluntary coalition of web spaces that share information related to agricultural research and innovation for development.¿ All partners under in the Web Ring project should make ARD related information sources more accessible through each other.