ARD priority setting

  1. Rural innovation and support to SMEs
    Facilitation Unit
    This proposal addresses the issues outlined during the regional priority exercise that GFAR has supported in the last year. All the regional and sub Regional Fora have identified the importance of creating programs to support innovative projects of agroindostrial development. Also there is a full…
  2. Post harvest and rural innovation. Identifying action-research priorities
    This document will try to outline the main specific characteristics of the thematic area of Post Harvest and Rural innovation. Also, following the Regional Priority Setting Exercise1, and the analysis of various initiatives (see annex 1), it will try to underline which commonalties and research…
  3. Linking farmers to the market: post-harvest, rural innovation systems and rural SMEs
    In developing a new approach to the interaction between research, extension (technology transfer) and production, based on incentivating innovation and on the development of innovation systems, the following key concepts play an important role:1)Importance of agroindustries and challenge confronted…
  4. International Post-harvest Symposium (IN-PhASE)
    Objectives:1)To create an improved international awareness of the breadth of the post-harvest sector and the importance of its contribution to socio-economic development in developing countries;2) To explore and highlight technical and policy issues which impact upon growth and change within the…
  5. Towards building Asian CSO consensus on agricultural research, extension & farmer linkages: a discussion on issues & piorities. Summary report
    The social and environmental impacts of the Green Revolution since the 1970s, the on-field testing of genetically-modified crops in the 1990s, the continued neglect of small farmers in national priorities, and persistent rural poverty and vulnerability of the rural poor ¿ are among the critical…
  6. Competitive Grant Scheme
    For Agricultural Research & Development
    in Sub-Saharan Africa:
    Scheme for SROs and their Organs
    Manual of Procedures
    Most of the African countries are still classified as poor by the United nations. Generally 70% of the population is said to be living in poverty, although this differs from country to country. Given a population growth rate for all Africa of more than 3% the current average economic growth rates…
  7. Guidelines for a Cgiar priorities and strategies formulation process
    As indicated by the Group at AGM2002, there is urgency for the CGIAR to formulate new research Priorities and implementation Strategies to inform the individual Center, Systemwide and Challenge Program decisions on the aggregate CGIAR research portfolio. These priorities and strategies will move…
  8. Workshop to elaborate and agree upon a methodology to
    identify national agricultural research priorities in the SADC region, Maputo, Mozambique, 20 ¿ 21 November 2000
    Workshop objective The first strategic thrust of SACCAR¿s Strategic Plan for Research and Training Coordination and Integration, is to ¿Assist NARS to set up national priorities and use them to identify regional priorities¿. The main objective of this activity is to ensure that the methodology used…
  9. 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…
  10. Challenges facing the agricultural sector
    Contains four major challenges to the agricultural sector and Technology Development and Transfer (TDT) systems in the eastern and central African sub-region in the next 2-3 decades
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