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    CGIAR Resolution: Objectives, Composition and Organizational Structure
    (Internal Document, 1971-05-01) CGIAR Secretariat
    Founding resolution on the objectives, composition and organizational structure of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research as articulated in May 1971 in Washington, DC.
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    Notice of First CGIAR Meeting, May 1971
    (Internal Document, 1971-03-01) World Bank
    Notice of first meeting of CGIAR in May 1971, dated 17 March 1971.
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    Summary of Conference of Heads of Assistance Agencies. New York, December 3-4, 1970 (Bellagio IV)
    (Meeting Report, 1970-12-01) Ford Foundation; Koffsky, Nathan M.
    Summary of a conference of heads of international assistance agencies organized by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations in New York, December 1970, designated Bellagio IV. The meeting was a follow-up to Bellagio III held in April 1970, and had the same agency participation, with the addition of representatives of France and Japan. It centered around a series of five papers prepared by the IDRC and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. After generally accepting a review of funding requirements of the four existing centers (IRRI, CIMMYT, CIAT, and IITA) for the coming five years, as presented by Dr. Hill of the Ford Foundation, the meeting turned to the papers:1. A proposal for an international upland crops program,. It was agreed that a technical panel would evaluate scientific requirements to improve sorghum and millet.2. A proposed allocation of responsibility for food legumes to CIAT, CIMMYT, and IITA. It was agreed that work on dry beans, cowpea, pigeon pea, chickpea should go forward, but soybeans and peanuts were of lower priority.3. The establishment in Africa of an animal disease research laboratory, to be located in Nairobi, and a production research and training center. More study was recommended, including the possibility of building on the East Africa Veterinary Research Organization (EAVRO) in Kenya, and a combination of the two centers proposed.4. Irrigation and water management. IDRC was encouraged to move ahead with a symposium on research and training needs.5. A proposal to strengthen policy research at national institutions in Asia, linked by a small international staff. The meeting said that the nations themselves should shape such a plan, and that a similar approach might fit other regions as well.The meeting also briefly discussed possible future consideration of proposals in the related fields of population and education.
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    Invitations to a meeting to organize long-term support for international agricultural research
    (Internal Document, 1970-11-01) McNamara, Robert S.
    Invitations from World Bank President Robert S. McNamara to attend a meeting in January 1971 regarding long-term support for international agricultural research. The record includes samples of a letter of invitation McNamara addressed on November 19, 1970 to eight heads of foundations and multilateral organizations, and the Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States, and a parallel memorandum to fourteen Bank executive directors. UNDP and FAO joined with the World Bank in sponsoring the meeting. Also included is a memorandum to McNamara from Richard Demuth of the Bank, attaching a copy of McNamara's memorandum of October 30, 1970 to the Bank's Executive Directors, a draft of the proposed invitation, and copies of the attachments. The latter consist of a summary report of the Bellagio meeting in February 1970 of agriculturalists from development assistance agencies, a provisional agenda, a list of invitees, and a draft statement of the objectives, composition and organizational structure of a proposed international agricultural research consultative group.
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    Conference of Heads of Assistance Agencies, Bellagio, Italy, April 8-9, 1970, (Bellagio III)
    (Internal Document, 1970-05-01) Rockefeller Foundation; Wortman, Sterling
    Notes prepared by Sterling Wortman of the Rockefeller Foundation on a conference of heads of assistance agencies held April 8-9, 1970 at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. The agenda was the recommendations from a conference of agricultural experts (Bellagio II) in February 1970.In the discussion on funding, USAID agreed to cover the $225,000 deficit of the four existing centers for 1970. It was agreed that the World Bank should move forward with the formation of a consortium, if the Bank's Governors approved, and that an informal meeting should be held in early December to consider funding, and the formation of additional centers.Four centers were discussed: water management, parasitic diseases of animals, dryland farming, and agricultural management and policy. The meeting also considered food legumes, which would be allocated among various institutions. New papers would be prepared on all five subjects by December. The agenda for December would also include the organization and operation of the consortium.Mr. McNamara, President of the World Bank, estimated that annual costs would rise to the order of $44 million per year by 1975, including capital costs of $10 million for one new center per year. Various participants stressed the importance of the foundations taking the lead on planning, organizing, and arranging for continued good management of the institutes. The foundations would discuss how to handle these responsibilities in late April.The paper lists individual comments by various participants during the meeting. Agencies represented were three foundations: Ford, Rockefeller and IDRC; six multilateral organizations: the Economic Commission for Africa, FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD, UNDP, and the World Bank; and four bilateral agencies: CIDA, SIDA, the UK Ministry of Overseas Development, and USAID.
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    Accelerating Agricultural Modernization in Developing Nations: A Summary of Findings and Suggestions from Agriculturists from Development Assistance Agencies, Bellagio, Italy, February 3-6, 1970 (Bellagio II)
    (Internal Document, 1970-03-01) Ford Foundation; Hardin, Lowell S.
    Memorandum prepared by Lowell Hardin of the Ford Foundation summarizing a conference of agricultural development experts held as a follow-up to the Conference on Agricultural Development of April 1969. The meeting was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and held in at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy in February 1970. It was subsequently referred to as "Bellagio II." Participants reviewed the experience of the early years of the green revolution, and discussed possible ways of bringing similar improved technologies and varieties to bear on the crops and production systems of more marginal areas with harsher agricultural environments, including the possibility of additional IARCs based on the model of the existing four - IRRI, CIMMYT, CIAT, and IITA. Seven areas of research were identified as warranting consideration for new international research centers: 1. Water management2. Food legumes3. Starchy root crops4. Livestock systems in Southeast Asia5. Upland crops in Asia6. Farming systems in semi arid areas7. Policy, management, and socioeconomic research Given the resource requirements of continuing the existing centers and expanding international agricultural research, participants suggested the possibility of creating a consortium or consultative group as tentatively proposed by the World Bank.They also recommended special attention to economic and social problems, involvement of key scientists in a series of workshops, support to informational services for researchers, and a continued emphasis on training. There is an attached table of impressions of the adequacy of present technical knowledge for various crops and regions.
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    Agricultural Development: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy April 23-25, 1969 (Bellagio I)
    (Report, 1969-04-01) Rockefeller Foundation; Meyers, Wil M.
    Report of a meeting of sixteen heads and key decisionmakers of major national, international, and private development agencies who met in April 1969 at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation at Villa Serbelloni, the Foundation's conference center in Bellagio, Italy, to discuss the implications of recent improvements in agricultural productivity in a few developing countries, and programs to sustain and extend the agricultural revolution. No formal record was kept. This document consists of six preparatory papers, and a brief summary of the meeting prepared by Will M. Myers, vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and presented orally at the end of the conference.The six papers include two by FAO, on world needs and potentials in agricultural production, and the high-yielding varieties. Sterling Wortman, director of agricultural sciences at Rockefeller discussed the technological basis for intensified agriculture, and Lowell Hardin, program officer for agriculture at the Ford Foundation reviewed later-generation agricultural development problems. Stanley Please of the World Bank wrote about capital and income flows needed to sustain the agricultural revolution, and F. F. Hill, retired vice president of the Ford Foundation, considered priorities in agricultural development.The conference also reviewed the work of the four existing IARCs, CIMMYT, IRRI, CIAT and IITA, and their growing financial requirements. There was agreement that vigorous efforts to develop superior agricultural technology must continue.Two further meetings were planned at Bellagio. The first would involve the principal agricultural officers or the agencies represented, and the second, about a year later, those who participated in this first meeting and representatives of other appropriate agencies.