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 [...]

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 [...]

Report on the e-consultation from a Pacific Perspective

by A.  R. Quartermain*, Sub-regional Consultant “I am hoping that putting this brief report together will help me in finalizing my sub-regional report which is now close to being overdue. In the event we had 12 participants including myself from the Pacific (although 3 based in Australia), plus two concerning Pacific fisheries, who made contributions.  [...]

First results of the e-consultation evaluation survey

231 participants of the e-consultation replied to our invitation to fill out an evaluation survey which represents approximately 13% of the total number of participants. The respondents came from a range of stakeholder groups and their participation in the survey is representative of the overall participation in the e-consultation. From a regional perspective the percentage [...]

Evaluation of E-consultations launched

All regional e-consultations have now been finalized. Europe just held its face-to-face meetings and the other 5 regional offices are currently preparing their gatherings. In parallel, the preparations for the Montpellier meeting are in full swing. While we will continue to inform the members of the different regional e-conversations about each step of the process [...]

Agricultural Research for Development in the Asia-Pacific Region: Report on the E-Consultation

Through a series of electronic and face-to-face regional and global consultations, the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) in collaboration with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) aims to reshape the global agricultural research agenda for development and reorient it to the needs of the poor through both the generation of new and [...]