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 [...]

African Farmers Organizations Declaration On “The GCARD Regional Face-To-Face Consultation” held in Accra, Ghana

7TH OCTOBER 2009 We the AFRICAN FARMERS ORGANIZATIONS Representing farmers from Eastern; Southern; Western and Central Africa WHO congregated here in Accra, Ghana from 5 – 7th October, 2009 to discuss on “The Global Conference on Agriculture Research and Development (GCARD) face-to-face consultation” on the invitation of FARA RECOGNIZE the importance of Agricultural Research and [...]

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 [...]

Feedback on day 1 of the Sub-Saharan Africa face-to-face meeting

Sixty three (63) participants are currently meeting at FARA’s new secretariat in Accra to review GCARD consultation efforts in Africa. Reflections in this blog are from David Hughes, Communications and Networking Officer for the Future Agricultures Consortium. Download the summary Day one saw an Overview of Agricultural Research and Africa’s Development Agenda by Dr. Monty [...]

Sub-Saharan Africa e-consultation summary available

“Africa knows its problems, has strategies and frameworks, and now requires commitments and engagement to solve the problems”, concludes the the Sub-Saharan Africa e-consultation, coordinated and organized by FARA. Have a look at the power point that summarizes  the exercise. Click here to enlarge the above ‘Focus of the discussion’ slide. 500 members from 65 countries, with 320 contributions from 42 countries [...]

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 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 [...]