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March 2003

GFAR 2003 Conference
"Linking Research and Rural Innovation to Sustainable Development"

Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), a stakeholder led initiative, uses a triennial meeting as a planning tool to address its mandate of stimulating cost effective partnerships and strategic alliances for Agricultural Research and Development (ARD). The first GFAR stakeholder meeting was held in Dresden, Germany in 2000, and the next one (GFAR 2003) will be held in Dakar, Senegal. The ultimate goal of GFAR 2003 is to review achievements over the last 3 years, identify new and emerging global issues of relevance to ARD, develop a framework of action that will consolidate on-going and promising partnerships, and identify future partnerships to tackle priority emerging issues for ARD.

In order to achieve the above goal, GFAR 2003, will focus on the following specific objectives:

• Review on-going GFAR priority focal areas, research activities and partnerships, with a view to consolidating achievements.
• Identify new and emerging issues of global concern, and outline prioritized ARD pathways towards alleviating these concerns, in the form of new focal areas, potential research partnerships, opportunities and alliances.
• Develop strategies to improve information sharing and communication both within and amongst GFAR stakeholders.

Expected outcomes of the conference are:

• Synthesis of lessons learnt from the implementation of GFAR activities during the current triennium.
• Prioritization of new and emerging challenges and opportunities for agricultural research and sustainable development.
• Identification of potential global partnership programmes and inter-regional activities for future development.
• Consolidation and strenghthening of partnerships and alliances between and among GFAR Stakeholders.
• Development of new strategies for improving information exchange, communication and sharing of experiences among GFAR Stakeholders.
• Definition of a framework for a GFAR business plan for the next triennium.

For further information please visit the GFAR Conference website.