EFARD Steering Committee Meeting

8th – 9th October 2012. Zollikofen (Bern), Switzerland. Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL).The European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) held it SC meeting.

Following issues were discussed:

• hosting the EFARD Secretariat, the position of Executive Secretary and the support provided to the Secretariat
• review of who will be EFARD’s representative on the CTA Advisory Committee. 
• Status of EFARD funding from GFAR and PAEPARD 
• Future ties with EIARD
• GFAR, GCARD and related matters
• Brief update of development of the website
• EFARD Publicity material
• Review of EFARD Governance 
• The Revised EFARD Action Plan and update on EFARD actions
• Update on the CGIAR SRF Action plan



David Radcliffe and Manfred Kaufmann

• EFARD’s role at GCARD

On the first day a Joint meeting was organised with the Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL). This meeting was chaired jointly by Chair of SFIAR (Manfred Kaufmann) and EFARD’s Executive Secretary (David Radcliffe).

See blog post The Information platform of Switzerland on agricultural research for development