to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership in Central Asia and Caucasus
SUPPORTED BY THE CGIAR
Heads of the National Agricultural Research Systems from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the host country, as well as Directors General or their representatives from the International Agricultural Research Centers attended the meeting in their capacity as members of the Program Steering Committee. Partners from a wider range of international research and development agencies also joined.
The meeting sessions took place on 20 and 21 September 2011, followed by a field tour to a few demonstration sites in the Tashkent district, on 22 September. An overview of Program's activities and achievements was presented on the first day. The second day provided an opportunity to discuss future priorities of collaborative agricultural research-for-development in the Region, including governance of the Program, its mode of operation and budget.
Background documents:
| Research for development! |
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| Are you a scientist or scholar interested in cross-border knowledge sharing? The Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme opens up opportunities to cooperate with specialist colleagues in Germany. |
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| A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDEBOOK OF SCHOLARSHIPS PROVIDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS MEMBER STATES TO CENTRAL ASIAN STUDENTS |
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| 10 - 11 May | Wheat Breeder’s Traveling Seminar – Karshi, Gallaral, Kibray in Uzbekistan |
| 12 May | Media-tour with students of Tashkent State Agrarian University to wild fruit forests |
| 13 - 14 May | “Sorghum and Pearl Millet for Crop Diversification Improved Crop-Livestock Productivity and Farmers Livelihood in Central Asia” project workshop |
| 14 – 17 May | CRP1.1 Regional Inception workshop for Central Asia and the Caucasus |
| 18 May | Training “ Access of Women to scientific achievements and innovations” |
| 18 May | Workshop in the Bostanlyk Agricultural College “Integration of Education, Science And Production In Colleges” |
| 18 May | Republican scientific practical conference “Distribution and conservation of fruit crops and their wild relatives” |
| 18 May | “Issues in conservation of agrobiodiversity, its role in development of agricultural sector, achieving in food security and environmental sustainability” |
| 21-25 May | National training workshop “ Application of technologies of molecular markers in PGR researches” |
| May | Field Day (in UzRIPI) |
| May | Adoption and Out-scaling of Improved Varieties of Wheat in Georgia |
| May | Wheat Breeder’s Traveling Seminar |
| May | Formal and Field Training courses on zero-till cum bed planter and land leveling technology in Uzbekistan |
| May | Formal and Field Training courses on zero-till cum bed planter and land leveling technology in Kazakhstan |
| May | Formal and Field Training courses on zero-till cum bed planter and land leveling technology in Azerbaijan |
| May | Farmers’ Field Day on Out-scaling of Chickpea, Barley and Wheat Varieties in Tajikistan |
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| CGIAR "King Baudouin Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" awarded to the Program for Sustainable Agriculture in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) in December, 2008. | ||
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