GFAR Core document

  1. Private sector group
    We were asked to address four areas from a Private Sector perspective: 1. our position on the final version of the Global Shared Vision and Dresden Declaration 2. evaluation of the conference and it¿s outputs 3. activities recommended for continuation in the future Program of Work 4. suggestions…
  2. Statements and reports from stakeholder groups. Private sector background paper
    The largest sector in most developing countries is agriculture; and developing countries that have prospered the most have mainly used agriculture, including value added through agro-processing and other agro-industries, as the engine of growth. Much of such success stories have also been largely…
  3. Progress Report from CSOs: NGOs
    With GFAR support a Civil Society Organization (CSO) meeting was held in October 2004 in Mexico during the GFAR 2004 Statutory Meeting . The main objectives of the meeting were: a) to provide an opportunity for the civil society constituencie of GFAR to consult and…
  4. GFAR report to the CGIAR AGM 2003
    Since it was founded in 1996, the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) has held its statutory meetings in conjunction with and just prior to the CGIAR Annual General Meeting. [...] An annual report that comprised activities of the GFAR Secretariat and GFAR stakeholders including the…
  5. Report for the participants of the GFAR Learning and Review Workshop, Rome, 25-27 January 2006. The evolution of the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
    (GFU)
    The idea for this facilitation unit was born at the first GFAR Conference in 2000. A working group recommended a strong involvement of GFAR in work on underutilized species at the regional level and also expressed the need for a global facilitation mechanism to stimulate, support and facilitate…
  6. Report to GFAR Steering Committee Meeting October 24, 2004. GFU progress review
    The GFU¿s first phase of 34 months will come to an end in February 2005. The German Government through BMZ is currently funding the project. Before deciding on a potential new phase and its financial support to it, BMZ requested a review of the progress made and suggestions for future activities.…
  7. Progress report of the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species. Updates on GPPs and pending projects
    The reader is kindly reminded of the expected outputs of the Facilitation Unit as agreed by the steering committee of the Facilitation Unit:1. Improved access to information is available and systems are in place to maintain it. 2. A platform for discussion of concepts, strategies and instruments to…
  8. Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
    A new multi-stakeholder initiative to support and facilitate the development of underutilized species in order to contribute to food security and poverty alleviation of the rural and urban poor
  9. Under-utilized and orphan species and commodities. A global framework for action
    Although only about 30 crops provide the bulk of human nutrition and just over a hundred species of plants contribute 90 percent of the supply of food crops by weight, calories, protein and fat for most of the countries of the world, this gives a false impression and a distorted view of the global…
  10. Updates on GPPs and other initiatives: GFU Under Utilized Species. Progress report, October 2004 - November 2005
    The evaluation of the first phase led to the recommendation that the GFU should focus its services and products to the need of those target groups that can best be served with a facilitation approach. Practitioners and other stakeholders at the technical level expect the GFU to implement projects…
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