EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President:

Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al- Bakry

Oman

Vice President:

Dr. Ismail Muharram

Yemen

Members

Dr. Majd Jamal

Syria

Mr. Adnan Gibriel

Libya

Dr. Mohamed Afzal

Pakistan

Executive Secretary

Dr. Ibrahim Y. Hamdan

Jordan

Contents

Editorial

Message from Prof. Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, GFAR Chair

AARINENA in action

• Expert Consultation Meeting, Cairo

• The Fourth CGIAR Senior Leadership Program, Switzerland

• Collaboration between AARINENA and ISHS

• Proposal for Amendments to AARINENA Constitution

• AARINENA Success Stories: Linking Farmers to Markets in WANA

• Announcement: Training Course on “Bioinformatics”, AGERI, Egypt

• Newly Appointed NARS Leaders in the WANA Region

• Institute Profile: NCARE, Jordan

• Forthcoming Events

• AARINENA Members

• Recent Publications

• Provisional program for 11th General Conference of AARINENA