Press release: Historic Dialogue between Agricultural Scientists, Farmers, Policymakers, and Other Key Development Actors Charts New Path

“Montpellier Roadmap” Outlines Priorities of Farm Research for Development Agenda; Focus on Farmers, Women in Decision-making For more information, please contact: Jeff Haskins at +254 729 871 422 (Kenya) or jhaskins@burnesscommunications.com Denise Young at +33 6 7115 4670 (Paris) or dyoung@burnesscommunications.com For Immediate Release MONTPELLIER (31 March 2010) —Failure to prioritize agriculture and rural development [...]

Research themes for the CGIAR: A discussion

Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary of GFAR, opened Day 3 of the conference by calling upon the participants for decisive collection action: “We’ve set the theme over the last two days. I can see you are all fired up to do something; now is your chance.” Dr. Mahmoud Solh, Director General of ICARDA, affirmed the need [...]

GCARD Highlights–Day 3 (Tuesday, 30 March)

Download the newsletter of the third GCARD day. See all videos See all the photos

Insights from the coordinator of the Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD)

Guest post by: Dr Balasubramanian Ramani, Coordinator of the Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) First I would like to thank GCARD organizers for the opportunity to attend along with 40 young professionals from various disciplines of ARD and from more than 25 countries. Now it’s emphatic to say farmers are central [...]

Day 4 starts with a Kofi Annan video address to GCARD

In his video address to GCARD, the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan highlighted that “our goal must be to support the small resource poor farmers and the people who rely on them”. For this to happen we need to establish parallel funding flows , build dynamic national systems, and we need an agricultural value [...]

Addressing Gender for Inclusive Development

Gender is a hot button issue at GCARD and the session on gender for inclusive development was no exception – a lively mix of videos, panel discussions and interactive nodes to map out practical ways to promote gender equality in agricultural research for development. “Wherever there are women, there is more enthusiasm and excitement,” said [...]

About the Mediterranean Exhibition

“Preserving our biodiversity is really an insurance policy for humanity” The exhibition Mundia Mediterra opened on Sunday as part of the first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development to illustrate the vital importance of the region as a bridge between Africa and Europe and a crucible of biodiversity which requires a high level of [...]