In June 2017 the members of the GFAR Steering Committee met for a dynamic three-day strategic workshop to set out their ideas for the actions the Partners in GFAR will take together to improve agri-food research and innovation towards achieving sustainable development. Together, they developed ideas for collective actions that will address big global challenges while keeping the farmer's needs at the center, driving the change across all agri-food sectors.
SIANI is collaborating with the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) as a local partner – together with Sida, Stockholm Environment Institute, International Foundtion for Science and media partner Devex – on the October 2017 conference Reducing Inequality in a Turbulent World: Scaling up strategies to secure indigenous, community and women’s land rights.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with GFAR, the Global Data on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN); the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the World Bank are inviting interested individuals to participate on the upcoming forum discussion to be held on
Determining the species from which gelatine is derived has in the past been very difficult as the gelatine production process renders traditional DNA-based techniques redundant.