The Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme Workshop was indeed a ¿workshop¿. It was
characterised by intense roundtable debates and energetic breakout group discussions that were
well informed by briefings on the new paradigm for integrated natural resource management and its
key programmatic and institutional components.
The discussions were frank and did not avoid controversies. This demonstrated very clearly that the
SSA CP is proposing a new and different way of conducting agricultural research for Africa¿s
development and that there is a deep commitment to improving livelihoods through the application
of INRM amongst all the institutions represented at the Workshop.
FARA is grateful to the participants for the many suggestions and valuable information that was
provided for further development of the SSA CP proposal and will continue to seek their input in
developing and ultimately implementing it.