- 2003 will be a crucial year for agricultural negotiations. August will see the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun during which member states will not only spell out their agricultural commitments, but also make trade-offs between sectors, since nothing can be finalised until agreement has been…
- The workshop on biotechnology is the result of cooperation between Asian Farmers Network (ASFARNET) and International Service for Acquisition of Agric-biotech Applications (ISAAA). Workshop on Biotechnology Promotion and Exchange on Agricultural was held on November 28 ¿ December 1, 2004 in Hotel…
- The discussion focused on farmer and Farmer¿s Organisation participation in Agricultural Research, particularly with the breakdown of the Researcher-Extension Worker-Farmer triangle. A strong outcome of the meeting was the suggestions with regards to rebuilding the researcher- scientist…
- Whereas all groups involved in agricultural research claim to focus on poverty and food security for the poor, this rhetoric has not been followed through to the strategic principles operational in programmes. The poor remain subjects of discussion, monitoring and evaluation, and have not been…
- Africa¿s basic industry is agriculture-based, not only in supporting the rural masses in their quest for food but also providing a large share of the GDP, contributing 30-40% of exports and 70% of employment. Recognizing agriculture as pivotal to Africa¿s development, FARA¿s strategy is to advocate…
- GFAR fully endorses the World Bank/European Union (WB/EU) concept note focusing on increasing and sustaining the productivity of African agriculture. There is consensus that African National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) are in dire need of increased and stable funding support. Unfortunately…
- 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…
- Since the early 1990s, there has been an increasing concern on the impact of agricultural research systems in sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and production and thus contributing to economic growth and poverty eradication. Nowhere has this concern been more pronounced than in sub-…