2004 Alewife Festival

On June 5, 2004, the Exeter River Local Advisory Committee (ERLAC) held the 4th Annual Exeter River Alewife Festival along the banks of the Squamscott River in downtown Exeter. Over three dozen organizations exhibited at the Festival and event organizers estimate approximately 750 people, including many children, attended the event. The purpose of the Festival was to increase awareness of the Exeter River watershed and the role it plays in the Great Bay ecosystem, as well as its role in providing drinking water, wildlife habitat, and scenic, historic and recreational resources for residents in the ten watershed towns. Funding provided by the New Hampshire Estuaries Project enabled ERLAC to print posters, banners, and newspaper advertisements announcing the event

Support for the 3rd Annual Exeter River Alewife Festival

With support from the NH Estuaries Project (NHEP), the Exeter River Local Advisory Committee (ERLAC) held the 3rd Annual Exeter River Alewife Festival on May 31, 2003 in downtown Exeter. NHEP funding enabled ERLAC and the Festival Planning Committee to print and distribute posters and cards advertising the Festival, purchase newspaper advertisements and arrange opportunities for the press to learn more about the event. In addition, ERLAC members worked with area newspapers to write and print eleven articles highlighting aspects of the river and the watershed

Report from TAC on Its Review of the 2000 Centre Financing Plans

TAC's comments presented at International Centers Week 1999 on the 2000 financing plans submitted by the CGIAR Centers and considered at TAC 77. TAC's review compared the plans with levels of spending endorsed by commodity, sector, and activity at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting 1997. The plans were assessed in aggregate in terms of their implications for systemwide priorities and strategies and consistency with the 2000 CGIAR research agenda, and center medium term plans.The review identified livestock, water, and germplasm improvement as areas of underinvestment, as well as chickpea, groundnut, millets, and banana. Rice and wheat were identified as instances of overinvestment.TAC noted with concern an ongoing trend of diminishing unrestricted funding, and its potential ramifications for center flexibility in responding to new challenges

Role of the CGIAR in Fisheries Research

Background paper assessing how well existing international aquaculture and fisheries research addresses requirements, and the need for CGIAR involvement. This is one of a series of desk studies prepared as background for TAC panels in considering institutional options for bringing new research areas into the CGIAR. The paper presents an overview of the work of ICLARM and three other institutes.Agenda document, TAC 51 and TAC 52

International Support to Irrigation Water Management Research and Training: Progress Report

A proposal by the TAC Secretariat to implement a suggestion by the CGIAR that a task force be established to study further the creation of an international institute for research and training on irrigation water management. Agenda document, TAC 25th Meeting, February-March 1981

Analysis of the CGIAR Impact Study in Relation to TAC's Recommendations on CGIAR Priorities and Future Strategies

TAC Secretariat paper relating the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of TAC's own priorities and future strategies paper of 1985, to those of the CGIAR impact study, which had been carried out concurrently but independently. The content and range of center work, center interaction with national programs, and future activities and directions of CGIAR research, were the broad topics of both studies. This paper examines the parallels and contrasts between the two.Agenda document, TAC 39th Meeting, March 1986

Vegetable Research for Developing Countries

Document summarizing TAC and CGIAR consideration of support to vegetable research over the years. It was prepared as background for discussion at TAC 42 of what action to take to follow up on the high priority assigned tropical vegetables by the TAC Review of CGIAR Priorities and Future Strategies. It concludes that TAC will wish to prepare a proposal for consideration of the CGIAR. Annexes include an extract from the TAC Review of CGIAR Priorities and Future Strategies, and charts from other papers

Terms of Reference for the TAC Mission to the Non-Associated Centers

Terms of reference for preliminary assessment by TAC of the content and quality of research activities at ten non associated centers being considered for support from the CGIAR.This document was approved at TAC 48. An earlier version was discussed at TAC 47

1982 King Baudouin International Agricultural Research Award

Decision by TAC to give the first King Baudouin Award to IRRI for the contribution of the IR-36 rice variety to income and food security in Asia. Agenda document, CGIAR meeting, November 1982

A Food Secure World for All: Toward a New Vision and Strategy - Companion Paper on Priority Research and Related Activity Themes

Companion paper to TAC's vision and strategy statement for the CGIAR, describing the analytical framework for identifying priority themes in future CGIAR research agendas