In this document, we highlight the activities undertaken by the GFAR family during
the year 2003, especially our global partnership programmes and the work of the five
regional fora and the GFAR Secretariat
"The discussions focused on an interrelated sets of issues at the global level:
- Changes in poverty: nature, causes, and dynamics.
- New constraints on productivity: agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
- New threats to sustainability of agroecosystems and their NR context.
The intent was to identify topics or issues of importance, not yet the object of enough CGIAR research, that might form part of the CGIAR's agenda."
It seems that most if not all of us in the Asia Panel agreed about the centrality of poverty reduction to the mission of the CGIAR.¿
Other arguments: Productivity, sustainability, institutional sustainability of innovation systems and international competitiveness.
"In Week 1 we were to discuss (1) changes in poverty: its causes, nature and dynamics, (2) new constraints on productivity in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, and (3) new threats to sustainability of agro-ecosystems and their natural resource context, all of this being done to arrive at a prioritized list of challenges within the CGIAR mandate and comparative advantage."
Terms of Reference for the Second GFAR External Evaluation
Summary of the second week:
A. General
B. Poverty
C. Restrictions over productivity
D. D. Threats on sustainable development of agro-ecosystems and its context.
E. Threats to institutionality of investigation and innovation.
F. Competitiveness
Summary of the first week:
A. General
B. Changes in poverty
C. Restrictions on productivity
D. Threats on the sustainability of agro-ecosystems and its context
E. Threating on the institutionality of investigation and innovation
F. Challenges of international competition:
Making the GFAR Secretariat more responsive to the
demands of its stakeholders is one of the key points emphasized in this paper. This implies i)
redefining the role of the NARS Committee, ii) supporting a more focused set of activities anchored
on the demands of regional and sub-regional fora, and iii) a more flexible and enhanced facilitation
function by the Secretariat. Sustained financing of the Secretariat and the provision of catalytic funds
will be indispensable if the Secretariat is to carry out its facilitation function and assist stakeholders in
GFAR Financial Report 2003 contains following tables : FAO Trust Fund; ISNAR Account; Overall Balance. GFAR Budget 2004 contains following tables: Expected Incomes; Expected In kind contribution; Provisional Expenditures
The GFAR Business Plan (BP) provides a frame work and guidelines to its constituent stakeholders [...] It comprises three parts: (i) a strategic document that briefly describes some of the issues that shaped the vision of GFAR and guided the choice of
its priority areas of focus for the immediate and near future of about ten years; (ii) a
comprehensive three-year rolling plan that describes not only concrete activities and expected
outputs for each of the priority areas of focus identified in the strategic document, but also a