Currently CACAARI work evolves around the following activities:

• Regional preparations for GCARD 2010: drafting and publications of a regional review and its discussions through an electronic platform and at face-to-face meetings.
• Expanding membership from initial eight founding members to a wide array of stakeholders: farmers, private sector, non-governmental organizations, extension system, educational establishment and state bodies. This includes creation of two new Consortia under CACAARI – Consortium of NGOs and Consortium of Farmer Organizations.
• Expanding the activities of the Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) to Central Asia and Caucasus. Assistant Executive Secretary will be presenting a regional input for YPARD Business Plan on August 24-26 in Rome, Italy.
• Knowledge-sharing and communications among Central Asia and Caucasus agricultural research institutions. For this, we are striving to keep an up-to-date Regional Agricultural Information System (RAIS) and set up an electronic archive of publications and publicity material from partner and constituent institutions.

Regional Brainstorm meeting for Transforming and Strengthening of Agricultural Research and Innovation Systems in Central Asia and Caucasus

Tashkent, 29-30 November, 2011
Samarqand, 01-03 December, 2011

• CACAARI Constitution
• CACAARI Regional Strategy
• GCARD Synthesis Report
• GCARD Road Map