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  1. This paper complements the report that is being circulated on GFAR-2000, which analyses in more detail the various results of the Dresden Conference and the follow-up that is being made to each one.1 This paper concentrates on the GFAR function of ¿facilitating the development of research…
  2. The concept of launching ¿Global Partnership Programmes¿ (GPPs) resulted from the acknowledgement that although the world is faced with an increasingly complex challenge of feeding its growing population, scientific and technological progress is generating the knowledge to make it possible to meet…
  3. The Near East and North Africa Region is food deficit and for many years, it has been the largest net food importer among developing countries. As some 60% or more of the population of the region live in the rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood, the decreasing agricultural…
  4. Many people and organisations concerned with agricultural research and development are still unaware of the creation of a Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), or have only a vague idea what it might be. In this article, a member of a German-based nongovernmental organisation (NGO) that…
  5. For the last two decades, NGOs have been the targets of many multilateral and bilateral organizations in development partnerships. At the same time, research has developed similar partnerships with NGOs. Since 1995, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) opened its…
  6. The conference of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) in Dresden in May 2000 was under the banner of strengthening partnerships in research and development (R&D). Suggestions for various ¿Global Partnership Programmes¿ (GPPs) were discussed in Dresden under four priority themes: 1…
  7. Los productores agrícolas, y especialmente los pequeños productores, desempeñan un papel muy importante en la producción agropecuaria en todo el mundo, sobretodo en los países en desarrollo. Los productores agrícolas desempeñan un papel importante tanto como generadores de tecnología como usuarios…
  8. Farmers play a very important role in GFAR, given the central role they play in both technology generation and technology utilisation. The GFAR Secretariat has been discussing with IFAP a possible way of developing a common strategic agenda, that could be of interest to farmers in the context of…
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