Policy Brief

  1. Digital and Data-Driven Agriculture: Harnessing the Power of Data for Smallholders
    Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are being used across the world to generate efficiency gains for farmers. This has led to an information and data explosion with an associated boom in new applications, tools, actors, business models, and entire industries. Agri-food systems are…
  2. Draft Seed Policy - Guatemala (ES)
  3. Advocacy by Regional Forums for Improving Information Sharing and Exchange in Agricultural Research for Development
    GFAR aims to improve the global flow of agricultural research information and information and communications management for agricultural research for development through four inter-related actions: 1) Awareness, sensitization and advocacy to National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) leaders and…
  4. Bio-fuels Research in the CGIAR: A Perspective from the Science Council
    A CGIAR Science Council Policy Statement on Biofuels Production
  5. Proceedings of AARINENA RAIS General Assembly Meeting 25-26 April 2006
    ICARDA, Amman, Jordan
    Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential component for development, not only of the agricultural sector, but also of industrial, environmental, and service sectors as well. It is a crucial element in establishing the sustainable development in any country. Realizing…
  6. Workshop on Advocacy and Inter-regional Cooperation for Information & Communication Technologies/Management in Agricultural Research for Development
    Organized by
    Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) ¿ Extension, Thailand
    3-4 July, 2006. Proceedings
    Under its Asia-Pacific Agricultural Research Information System (APARIS) initiative, APAARI proposed to GFAR to host the third inter-regional workshop on Information & Communication Management for Agricultural Research for Development (ICM4ARD) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The first such inter-…
  7. ASARECA/ World Bank meeting. Pre-regional consultation on the assessment of the role of agricultural science and technology in reducing hunger, improving livelihoods and stimulating economic growth over the coming decade, Le Chateau, Inter-Continental Hot
    The objectives of the meeting on 31 January 2003 were outlined as: o Discussing the scope, key questions and value of the proposed assessment. o Focusing on questions that decision makers needed answered in order to formulate policies that result in fewer hungry and poor people, particularly with…
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