Knowledge sharing

  1. FARA progress report, January ¿December 2005
    Immediately after the third FARA General Assembly, the FARA Secretariat is hard pressed to live up to the Assembly's expectations and recommendations. It is keen on sustaining the excitement and motivation generated in Entebbe, Uganda last June 2005. The Assembly gave all FARA¿s stakeholders…
  2. Developing a
    Shared Information Reservoir (SIR)
    for Agricultural Research for Development
    from a Regional perspective. 'From local information to global knowledge'. Position paper
    Sharing agricultural information in an open platform or ¿information reservoir¿ is a step towards building a global knowledge system. The term 'Information Reservoir' is used instead of ¿system¿ since the information reservoir is a product of various information systems that are…
  3. Information initiatives in agricultural research: enhancing global cooperation. Follow-up to the Rome consultation meeting (Rome, March 29-31, 1999)
    The purpose of this document is to specify the steps that are being taken to operationalize and implement the recommendations presented in the Final Report of the Rome Meeting. These steps are being organized in the following categories: a) Further work on the Vision and on the strategies to…
  4. Information initiatives in agricultural research:
    enhancing global cooperation. Conclusions and recommendations of the consultation organized by GFAR, with the support of FAO and the World Bank,
    Rome, FAO Headquarters, March 29¿31, 1999
    In a world characterized by globalization, and by an increasingly science-based and knowledge-intensive environment, the access to information, and the capacity for converting information into useful knowledge for different end-users and stakeholders, is becoming of paramount importance. In the…
  5. Global partnership project on
    information and communication management
    for
    agricultural research and development
    (ICM4ARD)
    Project Goal: Strengthen national, regional and global agricultural information systems to satisfy the needs of an emerging, more knowledge intensive agriculture that now needs information on a wider range of topics and beyond that available with local communities. Purpose of the Project: To enable…
  6. EGFAR: the Electronic Communication and Information
    System of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research
    (GFAR)
    The general objectives of the project are to: 1) Develop and manage an interactive communication system among the stakeholders of agricultural research for development (ARD). 2) Identify information resources relevant to ARD and enhance access to them, through a gateway (portal) function. 3) Build…
  7. Linking global knowledge with local wisdom: information, scientific and technical data for grassroots development
    The general objective of the INTERDEV project can be defined as follows: to design and to test a co-operative information service on Natural (environmental) Resources Management. By doing so, it is assumed that new technologies for communication and information provide technical possibilities to…
  8. InterSard¿InterDev: Two Cases of Partnerships for Sharing Information and Knowledge on good practices and local innovation
  9. The Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES): a
    successful NGO led partnership to promote agroecological research, training and information exchange in Latin America
  10. Investing in Agricultural Development. Information, Knowledge and Communication the Fertilizers of Future Research Harvests
    Like the famous NPK fertilizer formula1 for plant growth, agricultural organizations and institutions require regular doses of the three information, knowledge and communication elements. In the right combinations, and with suitable tools and devices to formulate, spread and apply them, these ¿…
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