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20 October 2005
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| The 15th Regional Coordination
Meeting of the Nile Valley and Red Sea Regional Program (NVRSRP) was
held at ICARDA headquarters at Tel Hadya, Syria, on 29 September to
1 October 2005. More than 30 scientists from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Sudan and Yemen, in addition to ICARDA scientists, attended the meeting. At the opening session, Dr Khaled Makkouk, Regional Coordinator of NVRSRP, welcomed the participants and summarized the main achievements made during the past year. This was followed by statements by heads of delegations: Dr Rasha Abou El-Enein, National Coordinator, NVRSRP, Egypt; Dr Iyassu Ghebretatios, Director General of the National Agricultural Research Institute, Eritrea; Dr Aberra Deressa, Deputy Director General, Ethiopian Agriculture Research Organization, Ethiopia; Dr El-Sadig Suleiman, Deputy Director General, Agriculture Research Corporation, Sudan; and Dr Abdul Wahid Mukrid, Deputy Director General, Agricultural Research and Extension Authority, Yemen. Prof. Dr Magdy Madkour, Assistant Director General (International Cooperation) made a statement on behalf of Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, Director General of ICARDA.
During the meeting, participants
presented the accomplishments made in different areas over the last
growing season and discussed work plans for the coming season. Included
in the program was a special session to discuss research priorities
in the NVRS countries and how much those priorities matched with
the recently adopted CGIAR priorities. Also discussed in this session
was the 2005–2015 ICARDA strategy, which is under development,
and how the new strategy could better serve the NVRS countries. |
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ICARDA: Established in 1977, ICARDA (www.icarda.cgiar.org)
serves the entire developing world for the improvement of barley, lentil,
and faba bean; and dry-area developing countries for the on-farm management
of water, improvement of nutrition and productivity of small ruminants
(sheep and goats), and rehabilitation and management of rangelands. In
the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region, ICARDA is responsible
for the improvement of durum and bread wheats, chickpea, pasture and forage
legumes and farming systems; and for the protection and enhancement of
the natural resource base of water, land, and biodiversity.
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