As a founding member of the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative, the Global Forum shares the objective of making agricultural research information and knowledge available and accessible to all.
e-GFAR contributes to this objective by:
- making GFAR's own information accessible;
- giving access to information mantained by stakeholders and partner organizations as well as to globally integrated ARD related databases;
- maintaining the CIARD RING (more info here), a registry of information sources in agriculture.
The e-GFAR gateway was built in order to be interoperable: all the details about the standards adopted, the protocols used and how to tap into our services will be soon available in the CIARD RING.

Using the EGFAR gateway to knowledge 

From this part of the site you can access a variety of useful resources. 

In the Forum’s Publications area you can read the many documents produced or published by the Global Forum as well as documents from our stakeholders that are particularly relevant for GFAR activities (partnerships, co-organized and co-sponsored meetings...).

As a Gateway to ARD information, EGFAR aims at improving access to resources developed and maintained by Forum stakeholders and partners through database search engines, web search engines, document search engines, a news aggregator, shared calendars etc.
EGFAR contributes to and harvests from AgriFeeds, the agricultural news and events aggregator developed by FAO, GFAR and other partners under CIARD.