This document was discussed and adopted, as amended, by
AARINENA¿s Seventh General Conference held in Beirut,
Lebanon from 22 to 23 March 2000
This document was discussed and adopted, as amended, by
AARINENA¿s Seventh General Conference held in Beirut,
Lebanon from 22 to 23 March 2000
Proposal for the Establishment of a
Regional Network for Date-Palm in the Near East
And North Africa
The Inter-regional Cotton Workshop was jointly organized by the Agricultural, Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) of Iran, ICARDA, AARINENA, GFAR and CAC-forum to encourage research partnerships among NARS of Central and West Asia and the Caucasus in cotton research areas of common interest. Cotton has been an important industrial and commercial crop of countries of this region. However, the recent developments at global level in recent years, have directly or indirectly affected cotton production.
CARDN was started in 1991 but operations began only after signing the contract with the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD) as the executing agency in 1996. IFAD has supported the project with US$ 1.5 m. ACSAD has secured co-finance from the Islamic Development Bank (US$ 1.0 m for equipment) and from the French government (US$ 50,000). The network operates through national co-ordinators in 12 member countries.
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) is an undertaking by all the
stakeholders of agricultural research for development aimed at promoting cost-effective partnerships
and strategic alliances among the key players involved in this area of research. One of the premises
of GFAR is the conviction that knowledge generation and utilization is increasingly based on
transnational research systems and networks in the globalized world of today. The mission of the
Organized in Collaboration with:
National Center for Agricultural Research
And Technology Transfer (NCARTT), International Center for Agricultural Research in
Dry Areas (ICARDA), International Service for National Agricultural
Research (ISNAR), Food And Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO)