Tropical Vegetable Research: TAC Secretariat Note

Abstract

TAC Secretariat note regarding the proposal for a new IARC devoted to tropical vegetable research that TAC had submitted to the CGIAR in March 1979. Donor member response to the proposal revealed insufficient consensus to assume responsibility for such an initiative on behalf of the system, and TAC here sets out to refine the proposal by addressing some of the reservations raised by the Group. Among these are assigning priority to six tropical vegetables, specifying the place of farming systems research in the proposed center's research program, and the resource requirements and appropriate size and work program of the center. Agenda document, TAC Twenty-second Meeting, July 1979, also TAC Forty-second Meeting, March 1987. To be read in connection with "Proposal for the Creation of an International Centre for Vegetable Research within the CGIAR System" of March 1979