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Summary report of the annual meeting of the CGIAR, November 3-6, 1986, Washington, DC, S. Shahid Husain presiding. Warren Baum discussed his newly published history of the CGIAR. Bukar Shaib of Nigeria delivered the second Crawford Memorial Lecture on 'Hope for African Agriculture.' John Mellor, ...

Summary report of the meeting of the CGIAR held in the IMF auditorium November 5-9, 1984, S. Shahid Husain presiding. Summary of the plenary session not included. TAC Chairman Camus reported on TAC's progress in reviewing the priorities of the CGIAR. John Mellor, Director of IFPRI, presented a pa...

Report in a new format of CGIAR International Centers Week, November 8-12, 1982, in Washington, D.C. Warren Baum, who presided, announced that he would step down as Chairman at the end of 1983. His successor would be selected from World Bank senior management, after consultation.Professor Camus, ...

Summary report of the annual meeting of the CGIAR held October 24-28, 1994 in Washington, DC, Ismail Serageldin presiding. Columbia attended as a new member. Alex McCalla delivered the Crawford Memorial lecture on agriculture and food needs to 2025. The Chair announced commitment by donors of an ...

Summary report of the annual meeting of the CGIAR, held October 26 to 30, 1987, in Washington, DC, David Hopper presiding. Amartya Sen delivered the annual Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture, on "Food and Freedom." There was a seminar on "Gender Issues: User Impact, Agricultural Technology and th...

Summary report of the annual meeting of the CGIAR held October 30-November 3, 1989 in Washington, DC, David Hopper presiding. The World Bank announced the selection of Wilfried Thalwitz, vice president for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, to succeed Mr. Hopper as CGIAR Chairman. Jacques ...

Summary report of the annual meeting of the CGIAR, held October 31-November 4, 1988 in Washington DC, David Hopper presiding. Helen Hughes delivered the annual Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture on the subject of agricultural development, growth, and equity. Reports were received from the chairs ...

News release announcing CGIAR-FAO agreement regarding the future trusteeship role of the CGIAR centers in keeping with the Convention on Biological Diversity, under which the Centers confirm that they will not allow any intellectual property protection on the germplasm it collects, ensuring its c...

News release announcing a seminar entitled "Agricultural biotechnology opportunities for international development" to take place in Canberra, Australia and in conjunction with a meeting of the CGIAR May 25-27, 1989.

News release announcing CGIAR's contract with Knowledge Access International to prepare a CD-ROM set of an entire working collection of agricultural research materials. The "Compact International Agricultural Research Library" (CIARL) will contain up to 5000 titles with trilingual search and retr...