A CGIAR Response to UNCED Agenda 21 Recommendations

Abstract

CGIAR Secretariat paper on the action plan known as 'Agenda 21' that emerged from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The paper reviews the growing place of sustainability and natural resource management in the research of the CGIAR centers, and its relationship to Agenda 21. The Group was asked to comment and recommend appropriate next steps by which CGIAR experience and expertise could be directed toward the goals of Agenda 21.Agenda document, CGIAR International Centers Week, October 1992.