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Issue 15/2005 - Special edition December 2005 / January 2006
In this issue
In this issue, the last for the year 2005, we share with you information on some milestones activities and achievements during the year... complete article
 Highlights
Highlights of the
Statutory Meetings at Marrakech
The annual statutory meetings of GFAR were held in Marrakech from December 1st to 4th 2005, prior to the CGIAR AGM. The GFAR Steering Committee (SC) during its meeting on the 4th of December, gave its final approval to the new GFAR Charter... complete article
 News
High Level Consultation on Biodiversity and MDGs
The Global Facilitation Unit (GFU) for Underutilized Species with support from the GFAR Secretariat teamed up with the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) to organize an International Consultation on the Role of Agricultural Biodiversity in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)... complete article
News
FARA: putting Inclusive Research Partnership into Action
FARA has convened a week-long multi-stakeholder consultation workshop during 3-7 October 2005 at the FARA headquarters at Accra, Ghana. The meeting brought together representatives from NGOs, farmer organizations, private sector, the Sub-regional Research Organizations (SROs) represented by CORAF/WECARD, Centre for Innovation in Development (Novafrica), and the CG Centers in the region represented by IITA... complete article
 News
IFAP launches International Farmers' Committee on ARD
The International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) launched International Farmers' Committee on Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) during a meeting held in Paris on 05-06 September 2005... complete article
News
High Value Crops Workshop
A group of about 40 experts in all aspects of high-value agricultural products (HVAP) - from different points in the research and development continuum and from different stakeholder groups - met at the headquarters of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia, in early October 2005... complete article
 News - ICM4ARD
Expert Consultation on International Agricultural Information Systems
FAO, CGIAR, CTA, INASP and GFAR as partners organized an Expert Consultation on International Information Systems for Agricultural Science and Technology - Review of Progress and Prospects during 19th and 21st October at FAO, Rome. The objectives of the consultation were... complete article
 DURAS
DURAS Project Leaders' Workshop
Prior to full implementation of the 12 projects selected under the DURAS Competitive Grants, the DURAS Project Office organized a workshop that brought together all the Project coordinators and their European collaborators from 11-14 October 2005 in Montpellier (France)... complete article
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The first Meeting of the Young Professionals for ARD (YPARD)
About 70 participants, mainly youth, met on December 4, 2005 in the first ARD Youth Forum during the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Annual General Meeting held in Marrakech... complete article
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GFAR-DURAS Roundtable on CGS
The GFAR Secretariat organized a Roundtable Discussion on Competitive Grants Schemes (CGS) on 03 December 2005 in Marrakech (Morocco) in conjunction with the GFAR Annual Statutory Meeting. This round table discussion, supported through the DURAS project, was preceeded by an electronic discussion on the same topic.... complete article
 Articles
GFAR Communications Strategy
GFAR's function as a platform that facilitates and fosters global networks of agricultural research and development (ARD) stakeholders requires GFAR to have robust communication capabilities. GFAR's communication capacities must enable its stakeholders to discuss and act in partnership to resolve issues related to ARD across the world. ... complete article
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The re-design of EGFAR
EGFAR, GFAR's website and keystone to its communications, is being redesigned to keep pace with GFAR's continued evolution in facilitating and fostering effective networks for agriculture research and development. With the redesign of EGFAR, GFAR's stakeholders and partners will gain improved access and usability to ICT mediated communications... complete article
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