Announcements
Events
First Information and Communication Technology/
Knowledge Management (ICT-KM) Advisory Group meeting
May 6–9, IPGRI, Maccarese, Italy
CIFOR and partners are hosting an“International
Conference on Rural Livelihoods, Forests, and Biodiversity”
May 19–23, 2003, Bonn, Germany
www.cifor.org
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
is hosting
its 2nd Plenary meeting “Sustaining Africa’s
agriculture through
research for development”
May 19–20, 2003, Dakar, Senegal
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) 2003
Conference
“Linking Research and Rural Innovation to Sustainable
Development”
May 22–24, 2003 at the Meridien President Hotel,
Dakar, Senegal www.egfar.org/home
New Appointments
Howarth Bouis, IFPRI, has been appointed Program
Director of the new CGIAR Biofortification Challenge Program.
An agricultural economist, he is a pioneer in developing
the concept of biofortification.
Welcome to New Board Chairs
Jim Godfrey, CIP, succeeding Kang-Kwun Kim
Angela Cropper, CIFOR, succeeding Jagmohan S. Maini
(from June)
Margaret Catley-Carlson, ICARDA, succeeding Robert
D. Havener (from June)
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, IFPRI, succeeding Geoff
Miller
Remo Gautschi, IWMI, succeeding Klaas Jan Beek
Richard S. Musangi, WARDA, succeeding Lindsay Innes
New Address
Judith Symonds, Executive Director
Jason Wettstein, Communications Officer
Future Harvest Foundation
1225 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
t : (202)223-1313
f: (202)223-3545
e: jsymonds@futureharvest.org,
j.wettstein@futureharvest.org
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