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000000000000000000000000000000 CGIAR MID-TERM MEETING 1992 Ishtnbul Summary of Proceedings and Decisions Consultative Group on International Agncultural Research The ConsultaWe Group on lnternatlonai Agncultural Research (CGIAR) held rts ,Mld-Term Meeting from May 19-22, 1992 at the Sheraton Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey Mr V Rajagopalan, Chairman, presided A summary of proceedings and of the main declsrons reached appears on the pages that follow Verbatim transcripts of proceedIn& may be consulted at the CGIAR Secretanat Issuedby the CGIAR Sews&mat The World Bank 1818H Street,N W WashmgtonDC, 20433 Phone (l-202) 473-8951 Fax (l-202) 334-8750 July 1992 Contents Formal Opening ..................................................................................................................................................1 Chairman’sRemarks ............................................................................................................................................ 2 CGIAR Priorities, Strategiesand Resources........................................................................................................ 3 Context and Consultation ...............................................................................................................................3 Priorities .........................................................................................................................................................4 Strategiesand Structure.................................................................................................................................. 6 ResourceAllocation .......................................................................................................................................7 TAC Chairman’sReport ......................................................................................................................................9 CIFOR - ProgressReport ....................................................................................................................................9 External Reviews............................................................................................................................................... 10 ISNAR .........................................................................................................................................................10 ICLARM ......................................................................................................................................................11 RegionalRepresentation .................................................................................................................................... 11 IntellectualProperty Rights, Biosafetyand Biodiversity ....................................................................................12 Future Meetings ................................................................................................................................................14 Reorganizationof CentersWeek ...................................................................................................................14 Confirmation of Dates ..................................................................................................................................14 Other Business.................................................................................................................................................. 14 BIOTASK ....................................................................................................................................................14 Crawford Fund .............................................................................................................................................15 UNCED ........................................................................................................................................................15 Vavilov Institute ...........................................................................................................................................15 Closing Remarks............................................................................................................................................... 15 Annex 1 - Agenda .............................................................................................................................................17 Annex 2 - List of Participants............................................................................................................................ 18 Annex 3 - Text of Working Documenton GeneticResources and IntellectualProperty.. .................................. .22 Summary of Proceedings and Decisions CGIAR Chairman V. Rajagopalan inaugurated the 1992 Mid-Term Meeting of the Group on Tuesday, May 19, at the Sheraton Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey. FORMAL OPENING Looking towardthe future he saidthat Turkey intendsto furtherstrengthen its nationalresearch capacity by meansof a Welcomingdelegates to the 1992Mid-Term Meeting majornew nationalproject. This will be partially fundedby (MTM92), Mr. ErkanBenli, Under-Secretary,Ministry of theWorld Bank andwill cover suchactivities as training, Agricultureand Rural Affairs, Governmentof Turkey, infrastructuredevelopment and the formulationof a 1O-year describedhow CGIAR centershad workedwith their Turkish strategicplan for agriculturalresearch. This new activity will counterpartsto improvedomestic agriculture. undoubtedlyhelp Turkey developfurther its partnership He commendedthe CGIAR systemfor its majorconttibu- activitieswith internationalagricultural organizations. tion to alleviatingworld hunger,and for its effectivesupport to He concludedby announcingthat Turkey was considering the continueddevelopment of Turkey’s agriculture. an invitationto join the CGIAR. He pointedout that agricultureis an importantsector of the The CGIAR Chairmansaid that presentationson Turkey’s Turkish economy. Some41 percentof the country’seconomy agriculturaldevelopment made the previousday at Yalova, is rural based,and agriculture employs 49 percentof the combinedwith the Under-Secretary’accounts of the policy nationalworkforce. It provides17.5 percent of GDP and 18.1 perspectivesthat governthose efforts, reinforced the impres- percentof all exportearnings. Half of all exportsare derived sionthat Turkey is committedto usingits agriculturalheritage from agriculturalmaterial. asthe basisfor growth anddevelopment in the presentand the In keepingwith the economicimportance of agriculturethe future. governmentin 1920established a comprehensiveagricultural Turkey’s agriculturalpolicies and programs, and the strong researchsystem which haddeveloped into the existingstruc- effortsmade by researchers,farmers and policymakers to ture. The variouscomponents of this structuremaintained a strengthenthe farmingsector, provided a fitting contextfor the continuingrelationship with CGIAR centers. MTM92 to be heldin Istanbul. This was madepossible by an Collaborationbegan at the time of the greenrevolution, invitation from the Governmentof Turkey,and by the coopera- whenseveral improved Mexican varieties of wheatwere tion of officials from the Ministry of Agricultureand Rural introducedto Turkey on a largescale. As a result,wheat yields Affairs duringseveral months of planning. The Chairman in Turkey increasedconsiderably in the morefavorable thankedthe Government,the Under-Secretary,Ministry environmentsof the coastalareas. This relationshiphas officials andothers who helpedwith arrangementsfor the expandedand diversified since, to includemany crops and meeting. centers.CIMMYT, CIAT, CIP, ICARDA, IFPRI and The Chairmanadded that successfulcollaboration in ICRISAT areamong Turkey ’s partners.An importantbenefit planningand arranging the CGIAR Mid-Term Meetingwas in of theselinkages has been capacity building. keepingwith the senseof partnershipthat hasdeveloped over He saidthat Turkey enjoysa specialrelationship with severalyears between Turkey ’s nationalagricultural research ICARDA, “our next door neighbor.” Collaborationwith systemand CGIAR centers.Pointing out that severalCGIAR CIMMYT is governedby a formal agreementwhich provides centerswere involved in thesecollaborative efforts, the for joint researchon the developmentof winter wheat Chairmansummarized the highlightsof researchcollaboration germplasm.In the early 1980sICARDA usedTurkish betweenTurkey ’s scientistsand these centers. institutionsin centralAnatolia for advancedtesting of its cereal On the basisof this well-establishedpartnership, he said,it andfood legumegermplasm and since the late 198Os, was fitting that Turkey shouldmove from beinga participantin ICARDA hassupported the efforts in wheatresearch by the andbeneficiary of CGIAR-supportedresearch to becomingan TurkishGovernment and CIMMYT hasprovided support activesponsor of the CGIAR system. servicesin areassuch as pathology, stress tolerance, etc. Turkey is a countrywith a strongagricultural tradition, a The Under-Secretarypointed out that following the emer- growingresearch sector and already with a variety of linkages genceof the new Turkish speakingand neighboring republics with CGIAR centers.Membership in the CGIAR will in no of westernand central Asia, Turkey had madecontact and way reducethe benefitsthat Turkey receivesthrough collabo- attemptedto developresearch linkages with agricultural ration with CGIAR centersbut would intensifyTurkey ’srole institutionsin thoseregions. Turkey would encouragethe in the globalagricultural