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Working towards a new generation of Young Professionals in ARD PDF, 1135 KB
A. Percy-Smith / Leonoor Akkermans for Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development, March 2012

Capacity Development for agricultural research for development PDF, 853 KB
Policy Brief. EIARD / Agrinatura, January 2012

Making ARD more "pro-poor", improving the accessibility and relevance of ARD results to the poorest PDF, 1155 KB
Policy Brief. EIARD, October 2011

International Agricultural Research: Is the Reformed CGIAR an Adequate Response to the Challenges Ahead? PDF, 692kb
Rolf Meyer, ITAS et al. in: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 20. Jg., Heft 2, Juli 2011, S. 61-68

Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture PDF, 199kb
Ministerial Declaration, Meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers, Paris, 22 and 23 June 2011

GCARD Road Map: Transforming Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) Systems for Global Impact PDF, 197kb
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), December 2010

The Montpellier Panel Report - Africa and Europe: Partnerships for Agricultural
Development PDF, 1800kb
Members of a Panel at GCARD (26 March 2010, Montpellier). Imperial College London, October 2010

Rising Global Interest in Farmland. Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable
Benefits? PDF, 2536kb
Worldbank. September 2010

Recommended by SFIAR member Adrian Dubock (consultant, formerly Syngenta)

IAASTD – Process and structural issues
Harry Swaine and Adrian Dubock. 2008

Dueling Visions for a Hungry World PDF, 486kb
Erik Stokstad in: Science 14 March 2008: Vol. 319. no. 5869, pp. 1474 - 1476

The real GM food scandal PDF, 489kb
Essay by Dick Taverne in: Prospect, November 2007, pp. 24 - 27

Another inconvenient truth PDF, 59kb
Editorial in: Nature Biotechnology, Volume 25, Number 12, December 2007, p. 1330

Organic agriculture cannot feed the world PDF, 102kb
D.J. Connor in: Field Crops Research 106 (2008) 187–190

Organic agriculture can contribute to fighting hunger. But chemical fertilizers needed to feed the world PDF, 21kb
FAO News, 10 December 2007

Recommended by SFIAR Member Tina Goethe (Swissaid)

Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty & Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF, 210kb Eric Holt-Gimenez, Miguel A. Altieri, Peter Rosset. Food First Policy Brief No.12.
(answer to announcement below)

Recommended by SFIAR member Adrian Dubock (consultant, formerly Syngenta)

Good food? Why ethical shopping harms the world PDF, 787kb
Economist, December 9th-15th 2006

Bill & Melinda Gates, Rockefeller Foundations Form Alliance to Help Spur “Green Revolution” in Africa
announcement by Bill & Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations. 12 Sept. 2006.

Possible Source of Bad Spinach Is Named as Outbreak Widens
The New York Times. September 16, 2006.

Pesticides & humanity: The Benefits of Using Pesticides PDF,1104kb
Jerry Cooper, Hans Dobson. Natural Resources Institute

Death in The Pot? PDF, 23kb
Nisbet Garry. Syngenta News. 23. October 2006

Growing Green. The challenge of sustainable agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF, 774kb
Douglas Southgate and Douglas Graham. Sustainable Development Network, August 2006.

Getting Africa to Feed Itself PDF, 942kb
James Shikwati. Inter Region Economic Network (IREN). Syngenta Lecture Basel, Switzerland, September 21, 2006.

Achieving Africa’s Green Revolution: Partnerships for improved input distribution PDF, 1937kb
Akin Adesina. The Rockefeller Foundation. Presentation at Oslo Africa Green Revolution Conference, 31 Aug. to 1 Sept. 2006.

The March of Unreason. Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
(not available online)
Dick Taverne. Oxford University Press. March 2005.

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