One of GFAR¿s missions is to: ¿Facilitate the exchange of information and knowledge
among Agriculture Research Development stakeholders¿.
The GFAR Document Repository has been established to be a key component of this
mission. It represents a new GFAR tool for action, an information service that will reach
communities of users interested in knowing more about ARD (Agricultural Research
Development) by allowing access to all available GFAR Secretariat documents.
This document describes the activities undertaken to launch the GFAR Document
Repository, the intellectual efforts needed to adapt the technology to the GFAR
requirements and the technical knowledge acquired about GFAR programme activities.
In the new GFAR Document Repository all documents produced by GFAR are described
and indexed in metadata records using agricultural information management standards.
It is hoped that other institutions and Regional Fora who are interested in setting up a
similar project will benefit from the GFAR experience and begin their own activities.