GFAR and GCARD Road Map Recognized in G20 Ministerial Declaration

The Ministerial Declaration “Action plan on food price volatility and agriculture”, issued by the G20 Agriculture Ministers from their meeting in Paris 22-23 June 2011, recognizes GFAR and the GCARD Road Map as essential mechanisms to strengthening agricultural research and innovation systems to better respond to the needs of farmers and ensure that agricultural research leads effectively to increased food security, sustainably increased agricultural production and productivity, and improved rural incomes:

“14. We agree to strengthen agricultural research and innovation and support results based agricultural research for development through our national agricultural research systems, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR). We welcome the “Montpellier road-map” coming from the first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development of 2010 (GCARD). We also insist on the need to enhance the transfer of the research results and technologies to farmers and to ensure that research activities respond to their needs and concerns and involve farmers in that process. We will promote technology transfers, knowledge sharing and capacity building through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation. We will foster innovation in plant breeding, including by strengthening internationally agreed legal mechanisms for plant varieties.”

All involved in GFAR value this recognition and we continue to work towards transforming agricultural research development systems for global impact.

Click here to see the full G20 Ministerial Declaration: "Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture".