AREEO is Appointed as a Member of Executive Committee for Biennium 2021-2022 in APAARI
AREEO is Appointed as a Member of Executive Committee for
Biennium 2021-2022 in APAARI
The Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research
Institutions (APAARI) was established in 1990 by the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Governments of China, Fiji,
India, Iran, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic
of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Western Samoa. It is a membership-based, apolitical,
multi-stakeholder, and inter-governmental regional organization.
As an important intermediary in the region, it is bridging national,
regional, and global stakeholders to bring about collective change in
agri-food systems of Asia-Pacific.
The 16th General Assembly Meeting (GAM) of APAARI was held
on 8-9 April, 2021 virtually. In this meeting, chairman of APPAARI, Peter Horne, General
Manager Country Program in Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research,
and Dr. Ravi Khetarpal, Executive Secretary of APAARI chaired the meeting and
gave an introduction and welcomed all Executive Committee Members
(ECM). Then, ECM proceeding (2019-2020) was endorsed by all members.
In the second half of this meeting, members of various
constituencies (South and West Asia, South East and East Asia Pacific region)
had a group discussion for the formation of Executive Committee
for Biennium 2021-2022 and some countries were nominated. In the end,
I.R.Iran (AREEO) was elected as a new member of EC from the South and West Asia
region.
