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Issue 17-18, 01/2007

special issue
GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference SPECIAL

In this Issue

This issue of the Newsletter is focused almost exclusively on the GFAR 2006 Conference that was held in New Delhi, November 8th to 11th 2006. You will find what we refer to as a short report of the Conference in this issue. ...
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GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference

GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference

The GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference at New Delhi from 9th to 11th November 2006 was inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India. The theme of the Conference was “Reorienting Agricultural Research to meet the Millennium Development Goals”. ...
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The President of India inaugurates GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference

The GFAR 2006 Triennial conference was inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India. The President who is also well known scientist presided over the opening ceremony. ...
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Sir Gordon Conway's Keynote address at the GFAR Conference

Sir Gordon Conway (Chief Scientist, Department for International Development, UK Government) gave a keynote presentation on the conference theme. ...
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India-GFAR-APAARI Day

The INDIA-GFAR-APAARI (Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions) day as a pre-event to the Conference gave an overview of ARD in India and Asia. ...
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CSO Consultation at GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference

A Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) consultation was convened on 8th November prior to GFAR Conference 09-11 November in New Delhi India under the theme “Reinforcing CSOs Role in ARD: How CSOs can better inform Policy and Practice”. ...
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Dialogue on European Initiative and financial support to ARD

The Dialogue on European Initiatives and Financial Support to Agricultural Research for Development gave information to stakeholders about the funding priorities of the European Union (EU). ...
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Young Platform for ARD: the launch of YPARD

The launch of the Young Professionals’ platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) was attended by more than 100 people. ...
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Panel Discussion on Reorienting Agricultural Research to meet the MDGs

The panel discussion during the Conference was initiated by Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, the Chairman of GFAR Steering Committee. Gordon Conway, Uma Lele and Christian Patterman participated in the discussion. ...
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Global Initiatives in ARD and their progress

Several Global Initiatives in ARD were discussed at the Conference. Olanrewanju Smith (Executive Secretary, GFAR) described the evolution of GFAR from Dresden (2000) to Delhi (2006). ...
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Conference Deliberations

Deliberation among delegates around the Conference were kicked off by Arnold Van Huis (Professor, University of Wageningen) ...
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Conference Working Groups

The GFAR Triennial Conference deliberated, through working groups, on 9 important topics related to agricultural research for development. ...
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What GFAR Stakeholders had to say

Some of the observations of stakeholders after their consultations. ...
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Exhibition

The exhibition for GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference was organized around the theme “Agricultural Research for Development (ARD): Contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals”. ...
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Poster session

The poster session was organized around the theme of “ARD: Evidence of contributing to achieving the MDGs”. The poster session included 15 competitive posters and 7 non-competitive ones. ...
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Conference Outcomes

A complete report of the conference will be available for downloading from the GFAR 2006 website ...
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Delhi Declaration

The Conference produced a final Declaration whose full version can be downloaded from the GFAR 2006 website. ...
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News from the Secretariat

GFAR Statutory Meetings

The GFAR Program Committee and Steering Committee for 2006 were held in Washington, US from Nov. 30th to Dec. 3rd 2006. ...
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The Global Partnership Programs Review Report

The Global Partnership Programs Review Report has been considered by the Steering Committee. The report assessed different dimensions of the GPP program. ...
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2nd GFAR External Evaluation Report

The 2nd GFAR External Evaluation Report has been submitted by the evaluators and placed for consideration by the GFAR Steering Committee. The evaluators in their report state that GFAR has made a remarkable move in the right direction ...
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GFAR Secretariat 2004-2006 Progress Reports

In February 2004 GFAR Secretariat organized a Retreat, involving all categories of stakeholders to fine tune the recommendations of GFAR 2003 Conference and based on that develop a new GFAR Business Plan for the period 2004-2006. ...
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Newsletter Issues

N. 19, 04/2007  
N. 17-18, 01/2007  
N. 16, 04/2006  
N. 15, 12/2005  
N. 14, 09/2005  
N. 13, 05/2005  
N. 12, 12/2004  
N. 11, 10/2004  
N. 10, 08/2004  
N. 09, 04/2004  
N. 08, 12/2003  
N. 07, 08/2003
N. 06, 05/2003  
N. 05, 12/2002  
N. 04, 10/2002  
N. 03, 08/2002  
N. 02, 04/2002  
N. 01, 03/2001  
N. 00, 12/2000  


 


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