Objectives: To improve food security and incomes among small holder farmers in semi-arid areas of the SADC region. This will be achieved in partnership with national research programs and other
stakeholders, by developing and disseminating new technologies to improve productivity in sorghum and millet-based systems
Objectives: To promote linkages between agricultural producers, end-users of agricultural products,
agricultural research institutions, and advanced agricultural education institutions as a means of
fostering the transfer and farm-level adoption of appropriate technological innovations.
Financed principally by an endowment provided by the countries of the Americas, and managed
directly by the same countries, the Regional Fund¿s overarching goal is to promote the
competitiveness of the rural sector in ways that contribute to poverty reduction and the
sustainable management of the resource base. Specific approaches being taken by the Fund to
support this goal are to:
· Add a permanent flow of new resources for regional agricultural research;
· Accelerate applied research at the national level by supplying public goods-type
PRECODEPA es una red que tiene el objetivo de aumentar el uso de tecnología apropiada para la
producción sostenible de papa en la región de Centroamérica, El Caribe y México. Para tal efecto se
han establecido proyectos que responden a problemas comunes, con base en países con ventajas
comparativas para el desarrollo y transferencia de los conocimientos generados.
Título del Proyecto: Organización y gestión de la integración tecnológica agropecuaria y
agroindustrial en el Cono Sur. Este proyecto se propone promover la integración tecnológica y fortalecer la capacidad de gestión del proceso innovativo en el ámbito del Sistema Agroalimentario y Agroindustrial (SAA) del MERCOSUR ampliado.
Para cumplir con ese propósito, se plantea fortalecer y asegurar el proceso de reingeniería del Programa
Cooperativo para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agropecuario del Cono Sur (PROCISUR). El nuevo modelo
Objectives: 1) Development of high yielding hybrids with an yield advantage of 15-20% over the
conventional varieties. 2) Optimization of seed production package. 3) Standardization of agronomic package for cultivation of hybrids. 4) Strengthening the human resource development. 5)¿nLarge scale adoption of hybrid rice in the country
The overall objective is to promote and strengthen hybrid maize technology in the Asian region through germplasm exchange, dissemination of information, training and periodic meetings and workshops.
Objectives: i.) To strengthen the on-going research on taro in the Pacific and promote networking. ii.) Describe genetic diversity in taro ¿ an underutilized tuber crop and a staple food in the Pacific Island countries. iii.) Develop and adopt, complementary conservation techniques to conserve taro genetic
resources. iv.) Evaulate diversity to develop disease resistant high yielding varieties and promote
their utilization by farming communities.
Project Title: Organization and management of technological integration in agriculture
and agroindustry in the Southern Cone. This project aims to promote the technological integration as well as to strengthen the management
capacity of the innovate process in the Agri-food and Agroindustrial System (AAS) in the enlarged
MERCOSUR 2. In order to be able to comply with the proposal, the strengthening and assurance
of the re-engineering process of the Cooperative Program for Technological Development in
NACA started as a regional project of FAO/UNDP with the title, ¿Establishment of the Network of
Aquaculture Centres in Asia¿. It had 11 participating governments1. The project began field operations
in August 1980, went through three phases, and terminated in December 1989. It was transformed
into an autonomous regional organization owned and operated by its member governments on 12
January 1990 when five governments ratified the NACA Agreement. The Agreement was adopted at