In 2012, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) are developing a new strategy covering the years 2013-2022. [see their current strategy]
They use this space to share progress and solicit inputs and comments.
In May 2012, ILRI worked up an initial ‘storyline’...
15/05/2012
A lecture was held by Dr Maurits van den Berg on "The future of the land" at the FAO Headquarter in Rome,5th April 2012.
Maurits van den Berg (1960) is Senior Policy Researcher Agriculture, at PBL the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. His main expertise lies in the...
12/04/2012
The 6th International Hybrid Rice Symposium will be held at Taj Krishna Hotel, Hyderabad, India from 9-11 September 2012. Organized by the International Rice Research Institute and the Directorate of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the event will gather hybrid rice...
23/03/2012
At their meeting, hosted by GFAR, in FAO, March 1-2, 2012, the DGs of the nine centers (CABI, CATIE, AVRDC, ICBA, ICIMOD, ICIPE, IFDC, INBAR and CFF) were welcomed by DDG Ann Tutwiler, who acknowledged their long connection with FAO and practical linkages through GFAR. The Centers DGs also hold...
08/03/2012
From 13-14 November 2011, the 2nd GFRAS Annual Meeting took place in Nairobi, Kenya, co-hosted by the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS). Almost 140 stakeholders from over 50 countries attended the meeting. The 2nd GFRAS Annual Meeting focused on the functioning of...
07/03/2012
With support from the European Commission
Stakeholder Workshop on Tracking Investments in Agricultural Research for Development
Organized by GFAR, EIARD & GDPRD, Berlin
January 20, 2012...
31/01/2012
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
The objectives of World Food Day are to:
encourage attention to agricultural food production and to stimulate...
24/01/2012
The objective of the Conference is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges
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24/01/2012
Mexico will chair the G20 in 2012 and host the Leaders’ Summit in June of the same year. By assuming the annual Presidency of the G20, as the second emerging country to do so at the Leaders’ level, and the first in Latin America, Mexico confirms its role as a responsible and...
24/01/2012
The 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa and a prime example of the continent’s fast-growing economies. Home to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,...
24/01/2012
This conference is the third in a series on ‘Agriculture, food and land use: the international policy challenges’ which Wilton Park is running over 3 years in association with the University of Exeter.
More than a decade into the 21st century, around a billion people still suffer...
24/01/2012
The inaugural Euromoney Food Finance Conference will bring together the financial community with practitioners from agriculture & related businesses and global policy-makers to discuss and decide how innovation in finance and markets can improve global food supply and security....
24/01/2012
The Oxford Forum for International Development (OxFID) is the UK's highest profile student-led conference, bringing together practitioners, academics and professionals from across the world to discuss international development issues.
OxFID attracts over 400 participants from the UK and...
23/01/2012
The Global Food Security Forum seeks to tackle, in an innovative way, the mounting challenge of feeding a growing world population while assuring food security for the most vulnerable.
This first edition of the Global Food Security Forum, to be held on March 7-9 2012 in Morocco, will...
23/01/2012
By 2050, the global population will surpass 9 billion people. At the same time, the world’s agricultural systems will be increasingly challenged by water scarcity, climate change and volatility, raising the risk of production shortfalls.
Economist Conferences are launching an inaugural...
23/01/2012
Including Smallholders in Agriculture Research for Development (INSARD) is an EC-funded partnership project involving six African and European-based NGOs. INSARD is working towards making it easier for civil-society organisations (CSOs) – both non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and...
18/01/2012
We invite you to participate in the implementation of the Inventory on Foresight Activities to identify and record forward-thinking activities that have been developed, in a systematic and documented way, on issues related to agriculture, rural development and farming systems for the next 10-20...
13/01/2012
As part of the wider agenda on enhancing aid effectiveness facilitated through GFAR in the context of the GCARD Roadmap, we are convening a Stakeholder Workshop on Tracking Investments in Agricultural Research for Development, at the offices of GIZ in Berlin on 20 January 2012 after the Global...
20/12/2011
The overall objective of the conference was to provide a space for sharing current thinking and practice and building coalitions of farmers, practitioners, policymakers and other key actors to advocate and implement policy reforms and innovations in extension and advisory services; especially...
16/12/2011
Strengthening resilience in agriculture and rural development is the overall theme of the 2011 AGA, targetting primarily the 34 Platform members of bilateral and multilateral donors, international financing institutions, intergovernmental organisations and development agencies. Invited are as...
16/12/2011
On Sunday October 16, 2011, more than 30 people gathered in Beijing to take part in a Foresight Exchange Workshop (FEW), one day before and at the same venue of the CGIAR Science Forum 2011 (SF 2011). This workshop was convened under the auspices of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research for...
08/12/2011
GFAR Co-organized the first G20 Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, Promoting Scientific Partnerships for Food Security held in Montpellier on 12-13 September 2011
The conference brought together the G20 Agricultural Research Systems and four key international bodies, the...
07/12/2011
Source: Voice of America
Audio Interview is available here.
Agricultural experts from the G20 countries will meet next week to find ways to match the latest research and technology to the growing demand for more food. It’s estimated the world’s population will grow to...
09/09/2011
The French Presidency of the G20 took the initiative to convene in Montpellier on September 12-13, 2011 a conference on Agriculture Research for Development, promoting scientific partnerships for food security.
This Conference provides a timely opportunity to consider how G20 Agricultural...
24/08/2011
The special series of blogs on Agriculture, ICTs and Young Professionals was launched at the end of the International Year of Youth, one of many activities during the last twelve months that mark the beginning of a greater recognition of the need to engage youth in the issues that...
24/08/2011
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