The Global Forum decided to adopt a new more dynamic approach to circulating relevant ARD news among its stakeholders.
Replacing the quarterly newsletter, the Forum is now regularly sending out the GFAR e-news.

The e-news are circulated through email to the whole mailing list of the Global Forum. They are sent at short intervals, at least three times a week. 

GFAR and its partners will be organizing a poster competition as part of the Science Forum 2009 Wageningen, The Netherlands on 16-17 June 2009.

Theme: ICTs: Enabling Agricultural Science to be a Social Endeavor

As new abstracts for the ISHS-ProMusa symposium in China in September still keep flowing in, we have decided to extend the deadline for abstract submission to March 31. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 20.

Everyone is invited to submit one or more abstract(s) for oral or poster presentation, on a topic related to the symposium themes:

Session 1: Novel approaches to understanding, conserving and using banana genetic diversity

The Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment (JENE) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published that will be monthly by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/JENE). JENE is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject.

Editors and reviewers

JENE is seeking qualified researchers to join its editorial team as editors, subeditors or reviewers. Kindly send your resume to JENE@acadjourn.org

On December 5th and 6th 2008 in Maputo (Mozambique), the Global Forum co-organized, together with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Young Professionals Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) and the Commwealth of Learning (COL), a meeting on Agricultural Knowledge Sharing, Education & Learning: Needs and Priorities.