Meeting on Under-Utilized and Orphan Commodities. BMZ, Bonn, July 2, 2001
Summary of the main conclusions and recommendations

The objectives of the meeting were to:
- Review the progress made by the different institutions in the field of UOC since the Rome meeting of January 2001.
- Discuss the Terms of Reference for a ¿Global Facilitation Mechanism¿ for UOC

GFAR Bibliographic database submission guidelines

<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>

Proceedings of AARINENA RAIS General Assembly Meeting 25-26 April 2006
ICARDA, Amman, Jordan

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.

KITABU, the bookmarking-tool.
Bookmarking essential pages
from RUNetwork.de and other websites.
A Concept Note

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

Workshop on Advocacy and Inter-regional Cooperation for Information & Communication Technologies/Management in Agricultural Research for Development
Organized by
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) ¿ Extension, Thailand
3-4 July, 2006. Proceedings

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.

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