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     <title>GFAR Statutory Meetings, July-August 2008, Montevideo</title>
     <description>2008-07-31 - 2008-08-01 , URY</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>DURAS Project Closing Seminar</title>
     <description>2008-06-11 - 2008-06-13 , ITA</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>A Statement to the FAO High-Level Conference from the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, on behalf of all those concerned with agricultural research for development</title>
     <description>On behalf of the global community for research for development, we call on all people of the world to take stock of the central importance of agriculture to their lives in the way they use and consume natural resources...</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=2036</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>Call for Nominations for the Executive Board of the CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme</title>
     <description>The Steering Committee of the Generation Challenge Programme has invited the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and other relevant bodies to nominate qualified candidates...</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:17:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>Dr. Mark Holderness appointed as GFAR Executive Secretary</title>
     <description>Dr. Mark Holderness has been appointed as new Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR).
He is currently Director of Membership and Partnerships for CAB International.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=1868</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>New publication: &#034;Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing and Sharing Distributed Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File&#034;</title>
     <description>GFAR and FAO presented a paper at the Special Session on Agricultural Metadata &amp; Semantics of the MTSR&#039;07 Conference, Greece, October 11-12, 2007.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=1871</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>GFAR Statutory Meetings, Autumn 2007, Beijing, China</title>
     <description>2007-11-28 - 2007-12-01 , CHN</description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>Inter-Regional Consultation on ICM4ARD</title>
     <description>2007-09-26 - 2007-09-26 , ITA</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>EGFAR Taskforce Meeting during the e-Agriculture Week</title>
     <description>2007-09-26 - 2007-09-26 , ITA</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARevents/eventsitem?contentId=1735</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>Communiqué after the GFAR Retreat in Alexandria, March 30th - April 1st 2007</title>
     <description>Representatives of GFAR Stakeholders met from 30th to 1st April 2007 in Alexandria, Egypt, to formulate the central theme, direction and priorities through a business plan for GFAR for the next 3 years.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=1603</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>GFAR Retreat March-April 2007</title>
     <description>2007-03-29 - 2007-04-01 , EGY</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARevents/eventsitem?contentId=1570</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>Minutes of the last GFAR Statutory Meetings</title>
     <description>The minutes of the last GFAR Statutory Meetings, held in Washington D.C., USA, on November 30th - December 2nd 2006, are available.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=1479</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>New Executive Secretary ad interim for GFAR</title>
     <description>The Global Forum on Agricultural research has a new Executive Secretary ad interim.
Dr. Abdelmajid Slama, from Tunisia, was appointed on February 6th 2007.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=1461</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference Report</title>
     <description>The GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference Report is now available for download.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=1325</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>GFAR 2006 Outputs</title>
     <description>See the GFAR 2006 website for updates on the GFAR 2006 outputs</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=474</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>The new GFAR Document Repository in AGRIS</title>
     <description>Thanks to the AGRIS AP export, GFAR is now an AGRIS Center and the GFAR documents are available in the AGRIS Network.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=577</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>GFAR Statutory Meetings 2006</title>
     <description>2006-11-30 - 2006-12-03 , USA</description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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     <title>GFAR 2006 Triennial Conference</title>
     <description>2006-11-09 - 2006-11-11 , IND</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARevents/eventsitem?contentId=57</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 20:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>Towards a GPP on Linking Farmers to Markets</title>
     <description>Important steps are being taken this year to finalize the preparatory phase of a Global Partnership Programme (GPP) on the theme of Linking Smallholder Farmers to Growth Markets</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/action/GFARnews/newsitem?contentId=405</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
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