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Milestones
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2005
January 2005
Gardens for Life, an innovative teaching programme, welcomes
its 70th garden to the programme.
Farmer survey begun in Mali’s
Segou region, to assess the needs of farmers in Cinzana and
Katiena Communities
February 2005
Mobile phone programme launched in rural areas of Uganda's Kayunga
district, in partnership with MTV Village Phones and Uganda
Microfinance Union. Collaboration begun with Yaounde Initiative
Foundation(YIF), in Cameroon, to improve health and well being
of communities in Africa through control of insect vectors of
human diseases, among other practices. YIF is an African and
UK-based organization, with origins in an African Union agricultural
pest management project.
March 2005
Projeto Elo ("Project Link") officially established in Nordeste
Brazil, with signing of agreement between the Foundation and
Project Dom Helder Camara
April 2005
International Consultation held in Chennai, India, organized
by MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, adopts Chennai Platform
for Action for a Hunger and Poverty Free World designed to assist
national governments and international agencies to achieve UN
Millennium Development Goals relating to halving hunger and
poverty by 2015. Syngenta Foundation is among the meeting sponsors.
www.mssrf.org/events_conferences
May 2005
Kenya's Insect Resistant Maize for Africa project makes world news, with the approved sowing of its first transgenic maize in a specially protected quarantined field.
June 2005
Foundation holds its first week-long workshop with partners
and collaborators from 10 countries. The meeting reviews current
programmes, develops ways of improving impact, and lays out
long term strategies for a private sector Foundation focused
on improving livelihoods in resource poor rural areas.
July 2005
New tissue culture laboratory equipment is shipped from Switzerland
to University of Asmara. The first of its kind in Eritrea the
training and research laboratory is scheduled to open in October.
Eritrea disseminates Kona and Hagaz, two new varieties of pearl
millet, bred with Foundation support, through Vision Eritrea
and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
August 2005
"Measuring the Trade-Offs Among Environmental, Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth Objectives: A Case Study of Tropical Deforestation in
Brazil," is presented in Basel by Dr. Steve Vosti, Centre for Natural Resources Policy Analysis, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis, US.
September 2005
The Foundation sponsors a meeting in Italy, under the lead of
the CGIAR centre, Centro International de la Papa (CIP) and
of the Rockefeller Foundation, to develop a roadmap for safe
deliveries of biotechnology in developing countries.
October 2005
World Food Day symposium in Basel. Agriculture's Future: Perspectives on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment with University of Essex's Jules Pretty, Senior Syngenta Fellow Paul Hendley and the Foundation's Executive Director
Andrew Bennett.
November 2005
Martin Taylor elected to succeed Heinz Imhof as Chair of the Syngenta Foundation
Board.
Grant to Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity for compiling, developing and improving plant scientist access to molecular breeding support tools for sorghum and pearl millet, two staples in the diets of Africa's Sahel.
Memorandum of Understanding between Government of Mali and the Institute for
Rural Economy (IER) and the Foundation, for 'Projet pour le renforcement des capacities pour une agriculture durable (PRECAD)', aimed at strengthening the agricultural capacities in the communes of Cinzana Gare and Katiena (Region of Segou).
Participation in the Tunis Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, Tunisia, relating to building information communications technology links for farmers living in marginalized areas in Uganda.
December 2005
Financial support for business plan development of African Technology Development Forum 'ATDF' to facilitate exchange of information on inventions, technologies and business opportunities for Africa.
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