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INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS
P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria
Phone: (963-21) 2213433, 2213477, 2225112, 2225012
Fax: (963-21) 2213490, 2225105; E-mail: ICARDA@CGIAR.ORG

5 June 2003
For more information contact:S.Varma@cgiar.org
ICARDA Poster Among
Top Five at Dakar GFAR Conference
An ICARDA poster was one of the winners among the top five selected for an award at the 2nd Triennial Conference of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), held in Dakar, Senegal, 22-24 May, under the theme "Linking Research and Rural Innovation to Sustainable Development."
     More than 400 researchers, research administrators, farmers, members of the private sector, and donors took part. A major message of the conference was that agriculture is back on the priority agenda of countries and donors. All stakeholders agreed that more support should be given to agricultural development and research.
     A panel of judges awarded a plaque of recognition to ICARDA for a poster entitled "Protected Agriculture in the Mountain Terraces of Yemen: More Income for Farmers from Less Water," authored by Dr Ahmed Moustafa, Coordinator of ICARDA's Arabian Peninsula Regional Program; and Abdul Wahed Mukred, Amin Al-Kirshi, Mohammad Al-Sadi, and Mohammad Al-Dhubani, all of the Agricultural Research and Extension Authority, Yemen. It was designed by Dr Moustafa and laid out by his staff in Dubai, principally Mr Arash Nejatian.
     The President of the Republic of Senegal opened the conference and the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock chaired the closing ceremony. The proceedings and recommendations will be published and distributed by the GFAR Secretariat.
     Dr Habib Halila, Coordinator of the Nile Valley and Red Sea Regional Program, Egypt, represented ICARDA at the conference.

ICARDA's (www.icarda.org) mission is to improve the welfare of people and alleviate poverty through research and training in dry areas of the developing world by increasing production, productivity, and nutritional quality of food, while preserving and enhancing the natural resource base. ICARDA is a Future Harvest Center.

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