GCARD consultations featured on latest Collective Action News letter

GCARD features as top story on the Collective Action News, a periodical e-publication of the CGIAR’s Regional Plan for Collective Action in Eastern and Southern Africa. Entitled “Online consultations to enhance agricultural research for development, the article by Simone Staiger-Rivas, illustrates some aspects around broad participation and trust of the ongoing GCARD process from the [...]

Agricultural Research for Development in Asia and the Pacific – The Way Ahead

The face-to-face meeting of the Asia Pacific region is to take place on October 30 and 31 at Bangkok’s Intercontinental hotel. -> Read the concept note that represents the baseline for the upcoming discussions, and starts as follows: “The Asia-Pacific region, encompassing South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific sub-regions, accounts for 57 per cent [...]

Overview and first impressions of the LAC face-to-face meeting

More than 70 representatives from the agricultural research sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) met at CIAT on 19 and 20 October to participate in the Regional Consultation on Agricultural Research for Development for LAC. As for all the regional meetings the overall objective was to review GCARD consultation efforts in LAC. The [...]

What I take from the CAC Region GCARD Consultations at Tashkent? Ajit Maru’s blog from Tashkent

As I packed my bags leaving Tashkent, I started wondering what I was taking beyond the tasty dried fruits and a bottle each of Armenian and Georgian Cognac that I had received as gifts from friends. I started making a list of new insights and reinforcements of old perspectives that I want to carry to [...]

Ajit Maru’s blog from Tashkent – Friday, 16 October and Saturday, 17 October 2009

Tashkent is beautiful by the day. It is iridescent by night. The marriage season continues. Yesterday, 16 October, there were two beautiful brides both waiting their turn for a grand entry into the ballrooms of the Hotel. There was a musical quartet that played “here comes the bride(s) “when they made their majestic entrance. Cameraman [...]

Ajit Maru’s blog from Tashkent – Thursday, 15th October 2009

The weather here is now becoming colder. In the day, it was lovely. The nights colder. But, Autumn somehow has not made an appearance. The trees are green as ever. Yesterday we had achieved the formation of the Consortium of Farmer Organizations I Central Asia and Southern Caucuses. We had spent half an hour at [...]

“Everything is ready for regional consultation on the future of agriculture for Latin America and the Caribbean”

From the Web site of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIAT who is hosting the event: “Representatives from the agricultural research sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are to meet at CIAT on 19 and 20 October to participate in the Regional Consultation on Agricultural Research for Development for LAC. This consultation [...]