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Milestones
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2006
January 2006
Foundation lecture in Basel "Using Technology in Developing
Countries" Dr Johan Brink, Institute of International Agriculture,
Michigan State University; Dr Hector Quemada, Crop Technology
Consulting; Dr. Bhavani Pathak, USAID. Dr. Salif Kanté appointed
Coordinator of new Mali PRECAD programme.
February 2006
Kenya's National Biosafety Committee (NBC), with oversight responsibility of the country's biotechnology policy and biosafety regime, visits KARI-Kiboko to observe second-season Bt maize confined field trials.
March 2006
Paul Roden, in-country manager for the Sustainable Land Management programme, elected to Board of Association of Eritrea's in Agricultural Sciences (AEAS). Founded in1994, AEAS is an independent professional society of agricultural scientists residing inside and outside Eritrea.
April 2006
London Times Education Supplement features Gardens for Life.
Lecture, in Basel, "Small and Medium Enterprises in Emerging Markets: Tackling Poverty by Improving Business" Dr. Urs Egger, CEO Swisscontact;
Prashant Rana, General Manager, KATALYST; Sarwar Ahmed, Managing
Director, Syngenta Bangladesh on innovative retailer training
in Bangladesh, combining crop management instruction with communications
and business training.
Launch of www.croptrust.org, designed with funds from the Foundation. The site is the internet home of The Global Crop Diversity Trust which is dedicated to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide.
May 2006
The Syngenta Foundation invited by the Organization Economic
Cooperation and Development's "Initiative to Support African
Policy" to provide a private sector perspective on the impediments
of agricultural growth in the region.
Registration of Syngenta Foundation India.
Syngenta Foundation co-sponsors international training course
on pearl millet improvement and seed production at International
Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics 'ICRISAT' facility,
Patancheru, India.
June 2006
Lecture in Basel, by Dr. Robert Zeigler, Director General, the International Rice Research Institute 'IRRI', sponsored by the Foundation"Bringing Hope, Improving Lives: Why rice research is important for poor people".
Josephine Okot, Managing Director of Victoria Seeds in Uganda, selected as one of eleven winners of the 2006 Fellowships for Enhancing the Careers of East African Women Crop Scientists. Josephine's two year fellowship is supported by a grant from the Syngenta Foundation. The fellowship is implemented by the Consultative Group on International Agriculture's 'CGIAR' Gender & Diversity programme.
July 2006
Election of Dr. Eugene Terry to Foundation's Board.
Syngenta Foundation grant for new technology coordinator, in
support of inaugural phase of new programme to harness marker
assisted plant breeding in Africa to sustain sorghum and pearl
millet for resource-poor farmers, to International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics 'ICRISAT'. Presentation
at UK's Department for International Development Enterprise
and Livelihood retreat, on doing business in difficult markets.
September 2006
International Working Group at UK's Eden Project on Agriculture's Future, jointly organized with IUCN and World Business Council, with the financial support of the Foundation.
October 2006
Final meeting of the Global
Crop Diversity Trust’s (GCDT) Panel of Interim Eminent Experts.
GCDT’s mission is to ensure the conservation and availability
of crop diversity for food security worldwide. The Panel, including
member Andrew
Bennett of SFSA, hands over governance to the newly appointed
Executive Board.
November 2006
Agreement was reached between International Foundation
for Science (IFS) and the SFSA for grants in 2006-2008 related
to capacity building and strengthening the Francophone West
African IFS network on dry land agriculture. In 2006, three
funding applications were approved: two from Mali, one from
Burkina Faso.
December 2006
Meeting to design proof of concept programme for marker-assisted
breeding of downy mildew resistant millet in Northern Nigeria
and stay green (drought tolerance) sorghum in Ethiopia. At Syngenta’s
SBI facility in North Carolina, USA, with scientists from
Lake Chad Research Institute in Nigeria, Cornell
University, Danforth
Center, SFSA and the International
Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) member countries and institutions
– including SFSA – meet with CGIAR Centers’ Directors General
and their senior research staff at their Annual General Meeting
in Washington D.C.
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