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among others at the Annual Conference of SDC in Zurich,
which focused on climate change and development.
Networking with international partners
Internationally, our main partners have remained the centres
of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR), and the Centre Suisse de Recherches
Scientifiques (CSRS) in Côte d’Ivoire. The annual Progress
Forum in September was another opportunity for face-toface
exchange with our partners in the livestock systems
research programme from these centres. The Managing
Director continued her commitment on the Boards of
Trustees of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture
(IITA) and the Africa Rice Center (WARDA).
In March, we had a visit from Jim Butler, the Deputy Director
General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organi-
sation (FAO) with whom we explored options for closer collaboration
between FAO and the ETH Zurich. This resulted
in the invitation of a D-AGRL representative and member of
the North-South Centre at the FAO high-level meeting on
food security in November 2009.
At the European level, the North-South Centre stayed involved
in two ERA-NETs at the interface of research and policy
(see box on p. 115). The Managing Director continued
to represent the D-AGRL in the General Assembly of the
“Network of European institutions for higher education in
agriculture for the tropics and subtropics“ (NATURA) which
obtained the legal status as a European Economic Interest
Group in the course of 2009 and is now called AgriNatura.
A twelve member delegation of the North-South Centre
participated again in the “Tropentag 2009” in Hamburg,
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Networking and communication
Networking
Thomas Rutherford,
Energy Science Center of the ETH Zurich
Eduard Bruckner,
former agricultural advisor for Nestlé
Kirk Smith,
University of California, Berkeley, USA