FORAGRO, Forum of the Americas for Agricultural Research and Technological Development

General lines of action:
1. Looking to the future:
Prospective vision of agriculture and the Rural Milieu
2. Regional R&D Agenda:
Identification of Regional Priorities and Regional Programs
3. Exchange of experiencies:
Actions among NARS: planning and management of technological
innovations; research experiences
4.Techological Integration and Cooperation:
Alliances and support to regional (FONTAGRO) and subregional programs
(PROCIs)
5. Knowledge and Society:

FARA progress report, January ¿December 2005

Immediately after the third FARA General Assembly, the FARA Secretariat is hard pressed to live up to the Assembly's expectations and recommendations. It is keen on sustaining the excitement and motivation generated in Entebbe, Uganda last June 2005. The Assembly gave all FARA¿s stakeholders an opportunity to contribute to FARA's future programmes, to exchange information on their programmes, and to seek synergies and new partnerships in African agricultural research for development.

Activities of CACAARI [Central Asia and Caucasus Association of Agricultural Research Institutions], October, 2004-December, 2005

CACAARI objectives: ¿ to promote the exchange of scientific and
technical know-how and information; ¿ to encourage the establishment of
appropriate research and training programs in accordance with identified regional,
bilateral or national priorities; ¿ to strengthen research organizational and
management capability of member institutions; and ¿ to build cross-linkages with regional and
international research centers and organizations through involvement in jointlyplanned
research and training programs.

FARA [Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa]. Progress report from Regional Fora

A report has been submitted to FARA after reviewing 1) FARA Secretariats current status, 2)
organization development issues such as the historic and current institutional force field of FARA,
strategic plan and SSA CP, FARA governance manual and ownership and commitment of and within
the SROs. The reports advices FARA to complete several organization development objectives to
establish itself as an independent organization and these were:Create and staff a viable administrative organization for the FARA Secretariat,

FORAGRO. Fostering inter-regional collaboration

One of the main reasons for creating FORAGRO was to highlight the growing importance of
cooperation and strategic alliances between research centers, transnational research and technology
development networks and other agents of technological change to modernize the agricultural
technical change. Also the fact that agricultural research, and the technological developments derived
from same, are no longer only the result of the work of national and international research centers, but

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