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  1. Organized in Collaboration with: Lebanon Agricultural Research Institution. International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) ; International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) ; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) The main decisions and…
  2. The Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) was established in 1985 as an instrument of change for strengthening national and regional agricultural research capacities in order to reverse the downward trends in agricultural productivity and the…
  3. The Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) was established in 1985 as an instrument of change for strengthening national and regional agricultural research capacities in order to reverse the downward trends in agricultural productivity and the…
  4. After the MTM-99 held in Beijing, China, AARINENA began its activities to contribute to GFAR 2000 meeting to be held in Dresden, Germany, based on the following items: I. Innovative Research Partnership II. Successful Case Studies III. Information and Communication Technology Development (ICT) in…
  5. Growing domestic and international markets for high value agricultural products can represent lucrative opportunities for competitive producers. At the same time, prices of staple commodities are steadily declining and these markets are being squeezed, especially for farmers whose production…
  6. The workshop aimed at reviewing the progress of activities carried out in the GFAR line of action ¿International cooperation on commodity chains¿. It analysed the activity report of the Facilitation Unit set up by IPGRI and Cirad in Montpellier to study the feasibility of establishing global…
  7. 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…
  8. 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.…
  9. 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…
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