Getting Ready for the Conference

The first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) 2010 is just around the corner. It will be held in Montpellier, France from 28-31 March 2010. The meeting is part of a massive and concerted effort to better align research processes with the needs of the poor, in particular poor farmers to meet the [...]

Bangkok Declaration

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and APAARI are now widely circultating the “Bangkok Declaration” endorsed during the Face to Face GCARD Consultation in Bangkok, Thailand. The objective is to draw attention of concerned policy makers and research leaders for needed support for Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) and implementation of recommendations. Find related documents on [...]

European E-consultation: Final reports are out

The final synthesis if the European consultation is now available.  The document includes the results of different steps of the consultation process: The regional review, the summary of the European e-consultation and the face-to-face meeting. All those docuements are available at the GFAR Web site

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 [...]