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Item Minutes of the 22nd Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, September 29, 2005, Washington, DC(Meeting Report, 2006-05-22) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the 22nd meeting of the Private Sector Committee, held in Washington, DC, on September 29, 2005, Usha Zehr presiding. Ian Johnson, CGIAR Chairman and Francisco Reifschneider, CGIAR Director, had interactions with the committee for the first part of the meeting. The agenda then included discussions on : the CGIAR - PS workshop, the PS participation at AGM05, the SKEP exchange, alliance-building initiatives, potential PSC commissioned studies, and PS membership issues.Item Minutes of the 23rd meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, March 29, 2006, Tervuren, Belgium(Meeting Report, 2006-05-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeThe twenty-third meeting of the CGIAR's Private Sector Committee (PSC) was held on March 29, 2006 at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, PSC Chair, Usha Zehr presiding. New members were introduced: Peter Jeffries of Merial Limited and Didier Lebret of SAI Platform. Agenda items included: CGIAR Systems Priorities, the Report on the Review of Centre Governance, the External Review of Partnership Committees, the Hybrid IP Workshop, the follow-up to the high-level dialogue, the Research Management Workshop targeted for the Spring of 2007, the Study on CGIAR's Private Sector Partnerships, the SKEP exchange program, and the High Value-Added Agriculture Initiative.Item Minutes of the 21st Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, February 25, 2005, Jalna, India(Meeting Report, 2005-02-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the 21st meeting of the Private Sector Committee, held at Mahyco Research Centre, Dawalwadi, Jalna, India, on February 25, 2005, Usha Zehr presiding. The agenda included discussion on : Joint Workshop between the PS and the CGIAR to be held in June 2005, allinance-building initiatives (Scientific Know-How and Exchange Programme - SKEP), initiative on value added vegetable products, all Challenge Programmes, delivery systems programme, and ExCo comments on biosafety policies and practices.Item Minutes of the 20th Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, October 22, 2004, Mexico City, Mexico(Meeting Report, 2004-10-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeThe twentieth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee was held at the Business Centre of the Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico in Mexico City, Mexico, on October 22nd, 2004. All the members were present. PSC Chair, Usha Zehr, conducted the meeting. Agenda items included: challenge programs, scientific know-how and exchange programme (SKEP), alliance-building initiatives, proposed workshop between the PSC and the CGIAR Centres, and external review of partnership committees. This document was discussed at the stakeholders meeting at AGM2004.Item Report of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Private Sector Committee, February 27th, 2004, Monheim, Germany(Meeting Report, 2004-02-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the 18th meeting of the Private Sector Committee, held in Monheim, Germany on February 27, 2004, Usha Barwale Zehr presiding. The agenda included presentations on the Harvest Plus and the Generation challenge programs, an interaction with the CDC chair Kanayo Nwanze, a report on the World Bank CEO dialogue, a presentation on the "Scientific Exchange and Training Program (SKEP) by Bernward Garthoff, and a discussion on PSC membership issues. This report was discussed during the Stakeholder Meeting at AGM 2004.Item Report of the Eighteenth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 2003-10-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the 18th meeting of the Private Sector Committee, held in Washington DC on October 6 and 7, 2003, Sam Dryden presiding. Committee members reviewed the following: the three year planning initiatives, the CGIAR Challenge Programs, the Center interface programs (scientific exchange program), a Delivery Systems Program Working Group, the Communication Initiatives, and the Policy Dialog Initiatives.This report was discussed during the Stakeholder Meeting at AGM 2003, under agenda item 5.Item Report of the Seventeenth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 2003-03-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the seventeenth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held in London, January 23-24, 2003, Sam Dryden presiding. The Committee welcomed its five new members. The bulk of the meeting was devoted to exploration of the Committee's future directions. The Committee discussed the orientation of the CGIAR, reviewed the Committee's mission, activities and achievements, and identified strategic issues and initiatives.Item Report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 2002-02-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the sixteenth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held in London, UK on February 13-14, 2002, Chairman Sam Dryden presiding. Ian Johnson, CGIAR Chairman, and Francisco Reifschneider, CGIAR Director attended part of the meeting. The Committee also interacted with Keith Palmer, consultant to DFID and Tony Kalm, Global Conservation Trust.The Committee discussed the three challenge program proposals recommended by the Interim Science Council, the role of the Private Sector Committee, and the Global Conservation Trust. Paul Zuckerman, a guest at this meeting but who was unable to attend, shared his views through a memo on private sector finance of CGIAR initiatives. The document contains two attachments: Attachment 1: PSC letter to CGIAR Executive Council containing its views on the Interim Science Council recommendations on pilot challenge programs. Attachment 2: Some observations on private sector finance for CGIAR initiatives, by Paul S. Zuckerman.Item Report of the Fifteenth Private Sector Committee Meeting - Teleconference, October 10, 2001(Meeting Report, 2001-10-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeThe Private Sector Committee (PSC) of the CGIAR held its fifteenth meeting via teleconference on October 10, 2001, in preparation for the CGIAR Annual Meeting scheduled for October 30 - November 1, 2001. The teleconference was chaired by the PSC Chair, Sam Dryden. Topics discussed were: CGIAR reform, PSC status, Sam Dryden's attendance at the President's Advisory Group of Crop Life International, and Rob Horsch's report on the an initiative led by the Rockefeller Foundation regarding IPR and regulatory harmonization in Sub-Saharan Africa.Item Report of the Fourteenth CGIAR Private Sector Committee Meeting - Teleconference, May 8, 2001(Meeting Report, 2001-05-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of a teleconference of Private Sector Committee members held on May 8, 2001 in anticipation of the 2001 CGIAR Mid Term Meeting. Discussing the recommendations of the Change Design and Management Team, Committee members focused on the proposed Global Challenge Programs. Developments in an ongoing dialogue between the World Bank and a number of major agro-biotechnology firms were reported by Committee Chair Sam Dryden, who also briefed members on a Rockefeller Foundation initiative to create a repository of shared technology maintained as "regulated public goods."Item Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 2000-10-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the thirteenth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held in Washington on October 21-22, 2000, just prior to ICW 2000, Sam Dryden presiding. CGIAR Chairman Ian Johnson joined the meeting for an hour. He reiterated the imperative need for public/private partnerships. Dryden spoke of private sector perspectives and questions about the concept of global public goods and their relation to germplasm improvement activities at CGIAR Centers. World Bank representative Shawki Barghouti briefed the Committee on Bank plans for a high level policy dialogue with the private sector on new agricultural technologies and their significance to the global development agenda. The Committee discussed the future governance and organization of the CGIAR. It favored regional priority setting, and suggested changes needed to implement that approach. Use of consultants was suggested. Other items on the agenda were the future role of the Committee, the need to educate the public on the importance of germplasm improvement, and the review of plant breeding in the CGIAR. The Chairman briefed the CGIAR meeting on the work of the committee, and this written report was circulated as part of the summary report of ICW 2000.Item Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 2000-05-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the twelfth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held in Dresden, Germany just prior to the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting 2000, Chairman Sam Dryden presiding. The Committee met separately with the CGIAR Chairman and the TAC Chairman.The discussion was devoted largely to the TAC vision paper and its companion paper on priority research and related activity themes. The Committee encouraged proposals for development of a framework for project portfolio management, formation of technology partnerships with advanced research institutions, regional approaches to research planning, and the establishment of an independent body to handle intellectual property issues.Dryden reported on an international forum organized by CIMMYT in Tlaxcala, Mexico on making proprietary technologies available to subsistence farmers. Other topics were forms of possible interaction between the private sector and the CGIAR, and methods of diversifying the public discussion of biotechnology and its application to developing countries.Item Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 1999-10-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the eleventh meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee held at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. on conjunction with ICW 99, chaired by Sam Dryden. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director General of IFPRI and incoming chair of the CDC, participated. The Committee discussed its role as revised by the system review process. Members agreed that it should provide policy advice to the CGIAR based on members' experience of private sector views and practices. The theme for the meeting was The Impending Impasse in Advanced Breeding and the Use of Proprietary Technology. Discussion utilized an ISNAR survey of proprietary science. The concern was that centers could face litigation if the properly licensed use of proprietary technologies was in question. There might also be a contributory infringement problem for donors. The public debate on biotechnology, and the danger that center application of advanced methods would be impeded was also discussed. A number of ways to overcome the impasse were explored, but each had some flaws.The Committee urged a complete inventory of center use of proprietary technology, and determination of ownership and the actions needed to permit dissemination of products. The planned high level dialogue between the CGIAR Chairman and major CEOs might help. The CGIAR could assist the private sector by providing public endorsements for biotechnology products. The Committee accepted a USAID invitation to cosponsor a workshop with IRRI and others on the impact of IPR on rice research.Agenda document, CGIAR International Centers Week, October, 1999.Item Reports of the Ninth and Tenth Meetings of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 1999-04-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReports of the ninth and tenth meetings of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee (PSC) as distributed for consideration at the CGIAR mid term meeting in May 1999.The ninth meeting was held in Paris on October 1 and 2, 1998, chaired by Sam Dryden. Geoff Hawtin presented an overview of CGIAR policies on intellectual property rights and biotechnology. The Committee discussed the recourse available in the case of a violation of a center material transfer agreement, and private firms' need to know the rules involved in transactions with centers. The Committee responded to the System Review report. Its comments were presented separately at CGIAR International Centers Week 1998. It also heard a report on the CGIAR Secretariat study of partnerships and networks. A newcomer's appreciation of the CGIAR by Susan Crisp-Jungklaus is attached.The tenth meeting was held at the AgrEvo Conference Center in Hattershiem, Germany on March 11 and 12, 1999, chaired by Sam Dryden. Susan Crisp-Jungklaus of AgrEvo presented an overview of developments at AgrEvo, including its role in a planned life sciences company Aventis, and a summary of strategic factors prominent in the thinking of private firms. Committee Chair Dryden reported on the February 1999 meeting of the CGIAR Consultative Council. The Committee discussed the pros and cons of the central patenting unit recommended by the System Review. The Committee heard presentations on AgrEvo collaboration with public and private sector partners. A majority disagreed with the ICW 1998 decision not to incorporate gene protection (terminator gene) technologies into CGIAR breeding materials. The Committee prepared a number of suggestions to the CGIAR concerning changes in its role, composition, and working procedures, which were discussed at MTM99.Agenda document, CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, May 1999.Item Report of the Eighth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee and Comments on the Reports of the Biotechnology and Proprietary Science Panels(Meeting Report, 1998-05-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeTwo documents presented by the Private Sector Committee (PSC) at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting in May 1998. The Committee commented on the reports of the CGIAR Panel on General Issues in Biotechnology and of the CGIAR Panel on Proprietary Science and Technology were transmitted by Chairman Sam Dryden, Jr. The comments sought to define the agribusiness industry's interests in CGIAR policies on biotechnology, and to provide the CGIAR with private sector feedback in its development of new legal and policy frameworks to accommodate the increasingly proprietary nature of agricultural biotechnology.PSC comments on the Biotechnology Panel's report stressed the CGIAR's advocacy role on behalf of poor farmers in the international debate on biotechnology and bioethics; the need for the CGIAR to develop its capacity for biotechnology research quickly; and the potential of CGIAR training to bring biotechnology to the adaptive research of NARS. Comments on the Proprietary Science Panel's report expressed concern about the lack of real progress toward a concrete and definable CGIAR position on proprietary science and technology. The PSC endorsed the report's recommendation to establish a central function to provide legal expertise on intellectual property.The report of the eighth meeting of the PSC, held at FAO Headquarters in Rome on March 10-11, 1998, discussed the panel reports, and set up a working group to formalize its comments. It also considered a progress report on a CGIAR Secretariat study of partnerships and networks. The Committee interacted at length with FAO officials, and with IPGRI and the chair of the SGRP review.Item Report of the Seventh Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 1997-12-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the seventh meeting of the CGIAR private Sector Committee held in Washington, D.C. October 25-26, 1997 in connection with ICW97, chaired by Andreas Büchting. The meeting included a session with the Chairman of the CGIAR. Discussion focused mainly on the role of the committee, and its future agenda. Topics identified were biotechnology, models of partnerships with private sector firms, and scientist to scientist partnerships. It was decided that there were more suitable sponsors for a proposed conference of private sector leaders. The committee could play a supporting role.The chairman reported orally on this meeting to ICW97, and the written report was distributed later.Item Report of the Sixth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 1997-06-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the sixth meeting of the Private Sector Committee held in Cairo in connection with MTM97 on May 25, 1997, chaired by Andreas Büchting. The committee reviewed its paper on private sector partnerships in biotechnology, which had been distributed to the CGIAR, and exchanged views on the topic with the CGIAR NGO Committee whose chairman had prepared a paper on biotechnology as well. The Private Sector Committee decided to follow up with a set of guiding principles on how to conduct biotechnology, cautioning that it was no more than a set of scientific tools that had to be kept in proportion.Planning for a high level private sector conference continued. For use in the CGIAR System Review, the Committee asked a member to prepare a cover note to the biotechnology paper. The Committee reviewed its work program identifying technology transfer as a priority area. It would revisit priorities at the next meeting. Specific requests for help from CIP and ILRI were considered.The Chair reported orally on this meeting to MTM97, and this written report was circulated later.Item Report of the Fifth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 1997-04-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the fifth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held in London, March 31-April 2, 1997 and chaired by Andreas Büchting and Assia Alaoui. Matters discussed included funding cuts and staff reductions at ICRISAT and IRRI, a draft paper on a private sector perspective of agricultural research, plans for the third CGIAR System Review, and the possibility of raising the level of CGIAR investment in biotechnology. The Committee also discussed means of increasing awareness of the CGIAR and its activities in the private sector, including preliminary preparations for a high level conference with selected representatives of that sector. Committee members described their visits to various centers.Agenda document, CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, May 1997.Item Report of the Fourth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 1996-12-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the fourth meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held at World Bank Headquarters, Washington, DC, October 26 and 27, 1996 just prior to ICW96. The chairman reported orally on this meeting to ICW96. The written report was circulated later The Committee interacted with the CGIAR Chairman, and with the CGIAR NGO Committee. It advanced plans for a high level private sector conference on agricultural research. The private sector perspective paper was discussed, and would be revised by the CGIAR Secretariat for presentation at MTM97.The Committee reviewed five presentations to be made at ICW96 on its behalf. The report on its survey of centers is attached. The Committee's mission statement was approved without further change.Item Report of the Third Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee(Meeting Report, 1996-10-01) CGIAR Private Sector CommitteeReport of the third meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee, held at CIMMYT headquarters in El Batán, Mexico, August 19-20, 1996. The Committee had a discussion of common interests with the TAC Chairman. It reviewed the results of a survey of the IARCs. It appointed a working group to prepare a statement of the private sector perspective on the status and needs of global agricultural research The Committee agreed in principle to hold a private sector summit on agricultural research, to be further considered at the next meeting. The mission statement for the Committee was revised, and would also be further considered.Agenda document, CGIAR International Centers Week, October-November 1996.