Prof. dr. ir. Rudy Rabbinge, university professor of Wageningen University, has been appointed as chairman of the Science Council of the CGIAR for the coming three years.
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a strategic alliance of countries, international and regional organizations, and private foundations supporting fifteen international agricultural Centres, that work with national agricultural research systems and civil society organizations including the private sector. The alliance mobilizes agricultural science to reduce poverty, foster human well being, promote agricultural growth and protect the environment. The CGIAR generates global public goods that are available to all.
The Science Council enhances and promotes the quality, relevance and impact of science in the CGIAR, to advise the group on strategic scientific issues of importance to its goals and to mobilize and harness the best of international science for addressing the goals of the international agricultural research community.
Fore more information see www.cgiar.org.