Board Members

Dr. Norman Looney, Chair (ISHS)

Dr. Dyno Keatinge, Vice-Chair (WorldVeg)

Dr. Lee Pai-Po, Treasurer (ICDF)

Boitshepo Giyose, Secretary (NEPAD)

Dr. William Dar (CGIAR)

Dr. Mark Holderness (GFAR)

Raul Montemayor (IFAP)

Gilles Saint-Martin (CIRAD)

Board of Directors

 

  

Expanded Board Meeting Dec 8, 2007 in Hong Kong where several resource people were in attendance.

The The GlobalHort Consortium has a major challenge to deliver a message to policy makers, research leaders and politicians that appropriate and coordinated efforts are needed to ensure that future crop production in developing regions and food supply to their own markets as well as to overseas markets, such as the European market, are safe and secure, and that natural and human resources are efficiently managed. One requirement is to gather from the earlier stages all the stakeholders involved in horticulture for successful research for development, reason for a consensual Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors comprises 10 voting members: one representative from AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, one from the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS), one from the Alliance of the CGIAR, one from Global  Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), one from Advanced Research Institutes (ARI), one from the health and nutrition community (NEPAD), one from a donors’ representative (ICDF), one from the farmers' organizations (IFAP), one from the private sector which has not yet been filled and one from an international organization which has also not yet been filled. The Board of Directors was reconstituted during the second meeting of Board of Directors of GlobalHort, 16 December 2007, in Hong Kong, China. It comprises the following institutions:

• AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center
• ISHS – International Society for Horticultural Science
• Alliance of the CGIAR
• GFAR - Global Forum on Agricultural Research
• ARI - Advanced Research Institutes
• NEPAD - New Partnership for Africa's Development  (for health sector)
• ICDF (for donors) – International Cooperation and Development
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• IFAP (for farmers' organizations)
• Private sector representative (not yet decided)
• UN institution representative  (not yet decided)