Report of the Fourteenth CGIAR Private Sector Committee Meeting - Teleconference, May 8, 2001

Report 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."