New Challenges and Perspectives for the Global Forum on Agricultural Research. The Second External Review of GFAR

The second review of GFAR has confirmed that there is a general consensus on the validity of the original vision which led to the creation of the global forum. Furthermore, all the stakeholders have recognised the uniqueness of the role of GFAR as a neutral platform for dialogue, advocacy and partnership forging for agricultural research for development. However, the views are also quite unanimous on the need and the urgency to develop new strategies to revitalize and re-engineer GFAR.

Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing decentralized Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File

In the context of the initiatives set in place by the Expert Consultation on International Information Systems for Agricultural Science and Technology (Rome, 2005), GFAR and FAO propose a distributed architecture with a central Registry File in order to manage information on organizations uniformly on a global scale.

Use Cases for a Standard to describe Organizations

The ARD community is asking for reliable and comprehensive information on Organizations in the ARD field, especially in correlation to information about projects and eperts. FAO and GFAR have proposed an Application Profile for describing Organizations and this presentation focuses on different uses cases for such an AP. The presentation was made at the AgrisContent Taskforce meeting in Wageningen, March 1-2 2007.

GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference Report

The GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference was held in New Delhi (India) from November 8th to 11th 2006. The theme of the Conference implicitly questioned the ability of current agricultural approaches to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially those concerned with the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, and the maintenance of the world¿s natural resources integrity.

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