Draft proposal for discussion within an ¿extended¿ Rambouillet Group

Objectives: 1) To rationalize the management of insect pests of cotton in southern India, in terms of reducing the excessive amounts of pesticides that are currently applied. This is likely to have immediate beneficial effects on the health of the farming community, and on the agrobiodiversity of the various locales. A reduction in the release levels into the environment are expected to follow. 2) To reduce rural poverty by improving, agronomically, economically and socially, the highly unstable cotton-based cropping systems in northern Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring areas.

The Project was designed as an action research project to test and assess alternative models of government-NGO-fisher collaboration for the management of inland fisheries of Bangladesh. Following from two earlier projects entitled ¿Experiments on New and Improved Management of Openwater Fisheries¿ (1987-1990) and ¿Improved Management of Openwater Fisheries¿ (1991-1994), the emphasis in the current CBFM project is to develop a framework for community-based fisheries management, and to ensure more sustainable exploitation of openwater fish resources for future generations.

This is a forum where much will be said about the challenges of agriculture and
productivity and about how globalisation will affect agriculture, with emphasis on crop
and livestock commodities. This note gives an insight into the other challenge facing the
CGIAR: how to manage natural resources sustainably under conditions of high
expectations for development. While acknowledging the great importance of
globalisation, it draws attention back to the rural community level where agriculture takes

Objectives: The goal of ETFRN is to ensure that European research contributes to conservation and sustainable management of forests and tree resources in tropics, subtropics & Mediterranean.
ETFRN aims to achieve its goal by: 1) Promoting forest research partnerships and collaboration between the South and Europe. 2) Developing and promoting dialogue between researchers, policy makers, and forest managers and others influencing the forest environment. 3) Promoting increased coherence and co-ordination of European research capability in tropical forest research

General Objectives: the wider goal is to promote the impact and uptake of European IPM research output to manage pests of field and stored crops and livestock and thus improve livelihoods of the poor in the developing world. IPM provides economically, environmentally and ecologically
sound food security through contributing to sustainable agriculture (SA). Actions will
capitalise on the comparative advantage of the European resource base, harmonise EU
development action, promote coherence, and maximise benefits of development cooperation.