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September 2003

Announcement of a new web site

Technology for agriculture (TECA)





FAO's Research and Technology group has partnered with the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) to create this site which aims to promote synergies and elaborate collaborative programs in research and technology knowledge transfer where the partner organizations can best utilize their comparative advantages.

The initiatives main objectives include:

  • Provide a platform to improve access to information about proven technologies;
  • Facilitate technology transfer across broadly similar biophysical, socio-economic and human environments;
  • Facilitate informed decision-making and active involvement of beneficiaries in the choice of technological interventions;
  • Safeguard individual and organizational knowledge and
  • Contribute to food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable development
.

Click here to see the web site.



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