2 December 2011
No. 1495
At the WAF 2011 Congress: (L to R) DG William Dar; Governing Board Chair Nigel Poole; ICAR Deputy Director General for Education, Arvind Kumar; Said Silim; and Peter Ninnes.
At the World Ag Forum 2011 in Brussels
ICRISAT shares solutions to better feed the world, leads session on South-South collaboration As demand for food grows across the world, so do opportunities for business expansion: how then should we re-think agricultural production? The 2011 Congress of the World Agricultural Forum (WAF) with the theme “Re-thinking agriculture to sustain a growing global population” held from 28 November to 1 December in Brussels addressed new ways of feeding the growing global population, and provoked the generation of ideas to solve real problems within a particular political environment.
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t the WAF 2011 Congress this week, ICRISAT has been actively engaged in the deliberations on re-thinking the global agricultural systems to better serve the growing global population. The only CGIAR Center invited to the Congress, ICRISAT also organized and led one of the breakout sessions on the theme “The Role of South-South
Partnerships” held in the afternoon of 30 November. The session was moderated by Director General William Dar, with the support of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Deputy Director General for Education, Arvind Kumar. Governing Board Chair Nigel Poole, along with Peter Ninnes, Said Silim and Alina Paul also represented ICRISAT at the Congress. to page 2 ...4