Drafts

  1. Consortium for the development and maintenance of tools for information management in National Agricultural Information Systems (NAIS)
    The objective of the Consortium is to give NARS a suite of tools and standards, based on modern information and communication technologies (ICT), to manage agricultural development information effectively and efficiently. This objective will be pursued through the following activities: i) develop a…
  2. Conceptual framework/guidelines for a Regional Agricultural Information System (RAIS)
    for Agricultural Research for Development (ARD), including the formulation of regional strategies
    The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) is a new dynamic initiative aiming to promote a Global System for Agricultural Research based on cost-effective partnerships and strategic alliances among the key players involved in agricultural research. The participants at a GFAR consultative…
  3. Global partnership project on
    information and communication management
    for
    agricultural research and development
    (ICM4ARD)
    Project Goal: Strengthen national, regional and global agricultural information systems to satisfy the needs of an emerging, more knowledge intensive agriculture that now needs information on a wider range of topics and beyond that available with local communities. Purpose of the Project: To enable…
  4. Joint FAO/SDRR¿NARS Secretariat programme to support
    regional and sub-regional agricultural research fora in the field of information and communication
    Three major themes have been identified as being of common interest to SDRR and the NARS Secretariat, in pursuing their respective objectives: 1) Operationalization of the NARS concept, in facilitating the evolution from the NARIs model to the NARS model. 2) Biotechnology policy issues and capacity…
  5. Regional priorities and emerging global programmes: a preliminary report on a stakeholder dialogue. Draft under review
    The Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR) is a joint undertaking by all stakeholders of ARD to mobilise the global scientific community in order to address the three major challenges of rural poverty alleviation, achieving food security and assuring a sustainable management of the…
  6. Going to Scale: Can we bring more benefits to more people more quickly? Workshop highlights
    This Going to scale Workshop held April 10-14, 2000 at the IIRR Campus in Silang, Cavite, Philippines was a follow through to the discussions of the CGIAR NGO Committee last October 22-23, 1999 at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA. In both workshops, sustainable agriculture (SA) and natural…
  7. Scaling up: Can we bring more benefits to more people more quickly? An executive summary
    This draft document is one attempt to capture the highlights of the Going to Scale Workshop in the Philippines including part of the Washington Workshop document Scale Up!. In both workshops, sustainable agriculture (SA) and natural resource management (NRM) served as the general backdrop to the…
  8. Scale up! Highlights and synthesis of proceedings of the CGIAR
    NGO Committee Workshop on Scaling Up Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives
    Scale Up! is a synthesis of the highlights of discussions of the 38 participants from some 25 institutions who attended the Workshop on Scaling Up Sustainable Agriculture (SA) Initiatives held 22-23 October 1999 at the World Bank. The Workshop was organized by the NGO Committee of the Consultative…
  9. Draft declaration of GFAR stakeholders on genetic resources management
  10. Dresden declaration on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Draft
    ¿We, as participants gathered here at the Global Forum for Agricultural Research in Dresden, Germany, on May 21 2000, being drawn from the national agricultural research systems, regional and sub- regional organizations, universities, advanced research institutions, nongovernmental organizations,…
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