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Milestones
2004
October 2003
'Food Security and Biodiversity -Sharing the Benefits of Plant Genetic Diversity' a symposium in Basel Switzerland in partnership with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the International Plant genetic resources Institute, examines controversies, new obligations and opportunities in sharing benefits and conserving the world's Plant genetic resources.
November 2003
Open meeting in Nairobi for all stakeholders of Insect Resistant Maize for Africa
'IRMA' project. Farmers, media, government officials, NGOs,
seed companies and researchers hear about recent developments
and comment on research progress. Minutes of this and other
IRMA meetings on:IRMA
reports page
December 2003
Symposium ‘On the Sahel –Sustainable Agriculture:
Lessons and Opportunities’ in Bamako, Mali, in association
with the Institute of the Sahel and the Mali’s Institute
of Rural Economy.
January 2004
The Syngenta Foundation and the International Foundation for
Science start a new collaboration offering competitive grants
to Malian scientists studying sustainable management of biological
resources in the Sahel.
February 2004
The Syngenta Foundation sponsors International Food Policy Research
Institute 'IFPRI' research and follow up workshop in Frankfurt
on 'Public-Private Partnerships in Agricultural Research: Creating
Global Opportunities for Poverty Reduction.'
March 2004
Implementation begins for Gardens for Life, a new project connecting students
on three continents in practical learning about sustainable agriculture.
April 2004
New research programme, 'Breaking the Yield Barrier', for developing and deploying pearl millet hybrids. Sponsored by the Rockefeller and the Syngenta Foundations; a partnership between the national research institutes of Mali, Senegal, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria; and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
May 2004
Meeting in Eritrea with University of Asmara, College of Agriculture and the Ministry of Agriculture, on building tissue culture laboratories for teaching
propagation and research.
Expanded Foundation launched with new reference base on organizations
doing research on agriculture and rural livelihood improvement
in the Sahel.
June 2004
His Excellency President Kibaki of Kenya opens East Africa's first level II biosafety greenhouse in Nairobi. Built by the Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA), a collaboration between the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (known by the Spanish acronym 'CIMMYT'), and financed by the Syngenta Foundation.
July 2004
Opening of new Geographical Information System (GIS) laboratory in Eritrea, on the campus of the University of Asmara.
August 2004
Invitations to bioformatics and genomics specialists for cereal annotation workshop capturing information from the rice genome to improve productivity of millet and sorghum, Africa's 'orphan crops'.
September 2004
International conference in Nairobi on sustainable agriculture.
Organized by Eco Agricultural Partners and hosted by the World
Agroforestry Centre. Sponsorship by World Conservation Union,
and other institutions including the Syngenta Foundation. Read
more
October 2004
'The inventors of Golden Rice, Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer,
talk about their discovery and its future in a Foundation-sponsored
lecture honouring World Food Day and UN Year of Rice. Syngenta's
Adrian Dubock talks about the role of the private sector in
Golden Rice research. Free DVD lecture offer on www.syngentaFoundation.org.
increases monthly website traffic some 80%.
November 2004
In India, agreement is reached between Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Chandrapur and the
Foundation to form a new collaboration. Roukayatou Zimmerman,
from University of Bonn, begins socio economic research in Bangladesh
for the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board to gauge impact of introducing
biofortified crops. Her research is supported by a grant from
the Foundation.
December 2004
Contributions are made directly and through Habitat for Humanity International to
help rebuild and improve the livelihood of communities destroyed by the Tsunami in the coastal state of Tamil Nadu, India.
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