GCARD 2010

28-31 March 2010, Montpellier, France

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Some 1,000 World Food Prize L aureates, ministers, farmers, community development organizations, scientists, and innovators will gather March 28-31, 2010 in Montpellier, France for the first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), according to this article. The G8 group of nations called for this conference to identity agricultural research priorities and required actions to improve agriculture. World Food Prize Laureate Monty Jones, who is leading the team organizing the conference, said, "This meeting marks the beginning of a global transformation in agriculture." "Agriculture has to be able to change at a speed and scale never before contemplated, and many of these reform processes are already underway. Our discussions and the new forms of research that arise from them will enable us to better pinpoint how to deploy limited agriculture dollars to meet a range of development needs-whether it's to develop new drought-resilient maize varieties in East Africa, new partnerships that link women farmers to markets to sell their harvests, or making much better use of water in regions where water scarcity is a serious threat," Jones said. The conference website can be viewed online at the link below.

For more details  http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/gcard

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