Emerging issues related to Business Plan: 1) Advocacy role for agricultural
research for development as top priority for GFAR. 2) Endorse facilitating and catalytic
role of GFAR Secretariat. 3) Endorse the five areas I identified as priorities ¿ sustainable financing mechanism. 4) Longterm perspective and sustainability considerations. 5) IARCs can provide information and form partnerships to support advocacy role¿share research results, data. 6) We can contribute to advocacy role through IARCs¿ networks. 7) Future Harvest Foundation can contribute to GFAR advocacy role