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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

In its third and last e-consultation week, LAC invited to a Webinar with Eduardo Trigo

In its third and last e-consultation week, the LAC team invites participants to contribute with thoughts and closing remarks for the event, as a means to link it with the process of preparing GCARD, to be held in March, 2010: “The second week summary prepared by Dr. Eduardo Trigo is available. The summary indicates in [...]

In Memory of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug

Norman E. Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) by Adel El-Beltagy Chair, Global Forum on Agricultural Research “It is very sad for the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) Constituency that Dr. Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) is no more with us. Dr. Borlaug was the world’s foremost [...]