- In developing a new approach to the interaction between research, extension (technology transfer) and production, based on incentivating innovation and on the development of innovation systems, the following key concepts play an important role:1)Importance of agroindustries and challenge confronted…
- OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTATION. 1) To review the present status of the Information & Communication Management (ICM) and ICT situation in each WANA sub-region (Maghreb, Mashreq, Nile Valley & Red Sea, Arabian Peninsula, West Asia), identifying: i) information requirements; ii) information…
- Vision: AIT will strive to become a leading and a unique regional multicultural institution of higher learning, offering state of the art education, research and training in technology, societal development and management. AIT will achieve this vision by working together with its international…
- Agenda: Historical Background; Framework of Action to develop the WANA/RAIS on the National and Regional Levels; Implementation Plan;Collaborative Programs; Implementation Priorities; A Project Proposal to implement Phase-I of the plan; Current Status
- AARINENA, in the framework of GFAR GLOBAL.RAIS Project, will organize an ICT Expert Consultaion Meeting to Strengthen the RAIS of WANA Region in Cairo, Egypt, at the end of February 2003 (25th to 27th). This discussion forum aims at finalizeing the background document that will represent the base…
- Crop and livestock production systems are the basis of the rural economies of humid and sub-humid tropical regions. However, tropical ecosystems are suffering the consequences of an accelerated deterioration in its ecological capital and most agriculture production systems of the region show high…
- The main objective of GFAR in promoting the development of Global Programmes is to mobilize the different stakeholders in order to address together problems/challenges that have been identified at a global level. The first Global Programme that was developed, PROMUSA, focussed on the genetic…
- The justification, aims, activities and expected outputs of the proposed programme on ¿Promoting Local Innovation in Ecological Agriculture and Natural Resource Management¿ (PROLINNOVA) can be found in the short information sheet (Oct. 2001) in the annex to this paper and in the longer concept…
- This paper describes the implementation of a multipartner effort, under the coordination of Embrapa Tropical Agroindustry, one of the research centres of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), located in the State of Ceará, Northeast Brazil. The project had as its main objective…
- There are clearly two main dimensions to the problem of launching ¿Global Partnership Programmes¿ (GPP): 1) The identification of the agricultural products, production factors or strategic challenges which would be better addressed at the global level, following the basic principle of subsidiarity…