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  1. Sub-Plenary Session 2:
    Agro-based Small & Medium-sized Enterprises
    and Markets in developing countries. Issues for Discussion
    The importance of a market oriented approach in the solutions of problems related to agricultural development is central. This is clearly highlighted in the regional priority setting (RPS) exercise facilitated by GFAR, as well as in the results of five Regional Workshops on Post Harvest conducted…
  2. Case studies of successful research partnerships. New partnerships between public sector, private sector and NGOs contribute to sustainable agriculture through rationalised pest management in cotton. India as an example
    Objectives: 1) To rationalize the management of insect pests of cotton in southern India, in terms of reducing the excessive amounts of pesticides that are currently applied. This is likely to have immediate beneficial effects on the health of the farming community, and on the agrobiodiversity of…
  3. Sub-Plenary Session 5:
    Innovative Policy Directions and Approaches
    for Sustainable Agricultural Development
  4. Achieving Success in Rural Development: Toward Implementation of an Integral Approach
  5. The Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES): a
    successful NGO led partnership to promote agroecological research, training and information exchange in Latin America
  6. ICLARM-NGO partnerships in research and community based fisheries management (CBFM) in
    Bangladesh
    The Project was designed as an action research project to test and assess alternative models of government-NGO-fisher collaboration for the management of inland fisheries of Bangladesh. Following from two earlier projects entitled ¿Experiments on New and Improved Management of Openwater Fisheries…
  7. GFAR-2000 Conference. Strengthening partnership in agricultural research for development in the context of globalisation, Dresden, Germany (21 -23 May 2000). The Bulungan experience. CIFOR and research partnership in the primary rainforest of Borneo, Indo
    This is a forum where much will be said about the challenges of agriculture and productivity and about how globalisation will affect agriculture, with emphasis on crop and livestock commodities. This note gives an insight into the other challenge facing the CGIAR: how to manage natural resources…
  8. Tropical Forest Research Cooperation: the European Tropical Forest Research Network and a Tropenbos case study
    Objectives: The goal of ETFRN is to ensure that European research contributes to conservation and sustainable management of forests and tree resources in tropics, subtropics & Mediterranean. ETFRN aims to achieve its goal by: 1) Promoting forest research partnerships and collaboration between…
  9. GFAR Successful Research Partnerships Case Study: IPMEurope
    General Objectives: the wider goal is to promote the impact and uptake of European IPM research output to manage pests of field and stored crops and livestock and thus improve livelihoods of the poor in the developing world. IPM provides economically, environmentally and ecologically sound food…
  10. Traditional Techniques of Microclimate Improvement African Network (TTMI/AN). Project for research training.
    Objectives: Problem oriented research training at African Universities, at PhD-level and supportive MSc-level, aiming at human and infrastructural capacity building for field research in environmentally sound crop, soil and water management for sustainable agriculture in semi-arid Africa. Expansion…
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