GFAR represents stakeholders from outside the international research system as an Active Observer to the work of the CGIAR System Council, the body that manages the direction and central funding of the CGIAR research centers. During the System Council meeting in Berlin in May, a number of themes were explored that have relevance beyond the CGIAR itself and also into many GFAR partner institutions and collective actions:
The 2017 IFAD Annual Report and Highlights have now been published: learn about IFAD's work, investments and results.
Read stories about the rural women and men IFAD empowers, and get the facts and figures shared regularly with Member States and partners.
You can also learn more about IFAD's advocacy efforts to keep the needs of rural communities at the top of the international development agenda.
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As you are aware, on May 25th the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, which enforced one set of data protection rules for all companies and organizations operating in the EU, wherever they are based.
If your institution is in Europe and conducts climate-relevant agricultural research, you may be interested in having it featured in a knowledge base of European institutional capacities and activities in climate-relevant agricultural research and innovation, which the European Union (EU) initiative called DeSIRA is building.
The deadline for the first release of the knowledge base is 31 July 2018.
CABI is helping Pakistan’s cotton industry to reduce losses of around $350m a year through poor production, transport and storage practices by training thousands of farmers and workers as part of the Better Cotton Initiative.
Cotton is Pakistan’s largest industrial sector and has played an important role in the economic development of the country and remains a key livelihood source for more than one million farmers.
Over 600 participants from science, politics, business and civil society from over 50 countries gathered at the fifth EAT Stockholm Food Forum.
The 2018 EAT Stockholm Food Forum explored a range of solutions available for achieving healthy and sustainable diets for a growing global population. It confronted some of the hard questions head on, such as how to feed the world with zero land expansion and ocean depletion, or the benefits of processed foods and clean meat.
