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Milestones
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2007
January 2007
SFSA opens an antenna office in Research Triangle Park in North
Carolina, USA to increase impact through raising awareness and
building research, policy and enterprise alliances with American-based
institutions.
SFSA Board meets in India.
February 2007
SFSA publishes
‘The Role of Microfinance In Rural Microenterprise Development’
by Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Seibel of the University
of Cologne. An analysis of a web-based discussion prompted
by a SFSA advertisement in a microfinance section of The Economist.
Deutsche
Bank Americas Foundation, Skoll
Foundation and SFSA join Shell
Foundation in the launch of the GroFin
East Africa Fund branded as ASPIRE, for small and medium
enterprise development.
Executive Committee of the Insect
Resistance Maize for Africa (IRMA) meets in Nairobi, Kenya.
March 2007
Gender & Diversity media workshop to support the careers of
African women in agricultural science. Participants include
the Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation (SDC), CGIAR Secretariat, CGIAR
Gender & Diversity Group and SFSA.
April 2007
CGIAR’s Generation Challenge Program
and SFSA agree to co-sponsor the development of a Project Delivery Guide
for public sector researchers.
May 2007
Farmers
Information Communication Management (FICOM) programme in
Uganda becomes self-sustaining, and the Kayunga
District Farmers Association takes over management functions.
Creating Prosperity Through Investments in Agriculture: What
Investments?’ a presentation by Andrew
Bennett, World
Agriculture Forum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Gates
Foundation and SFSA
agree to continue to co-sponsor a manager position for the Golden
Rice Project at the University
of Freiburg, Germany.
June 2007
Final report, ‘Sharing Science, Building Bridges and Enhancing
Impact Public- Private Partnerships in the CGIAR’
is published by the International
Food Policy Research Institute. Produced with grants from
the Department for International
Development in the UK and SFSA.
SFSA offers partial sponsorship of the 9th
World Congress on Parasitic Plants.
July 2007
SFSA Board meets in Basel, Switzerland.
August 2007
The Syngenta Foundation India (SFI) Board meets in Mumbai.
September 2007
Symposium ‘New
Approaches to Plant Breeding of Orphan Crops in Africa,’
organized by Dr. Zerihun Tadele and Prof. Dr. Cris Kuhlemeier,
University of Bern. SFSA is one of the event’s co-sponsors.
Scientists from both developed and developing countries discuss
plant improvement research for millet, tef and other cereals.
The Centre for Applied Studies
in International Negotiations (CASIN) office, Geneva, Switzerland
hosts the symposium ‘Investing
Private Capital in Emerging and Frontier Market SME’s,’ with
SFSA among the session’s lead sponsors. |
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