From 20th to 21th June, 2012, the representatives from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)'s institutes under the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) 1.2 have gathered together at Melia Hotel in Hanoi for CRP 1.2 Regional Meeting Asia.

After the welcome speech by Prof. Jianchu Xu from ICRAF China, the workshop began with the presentation on the overview of Humidtropics program.

In the followings, almost of the 2-day meeting, all participants from CGIAR's organizations including ICRAF, IITA, ILRI, CIAT, AVRDC, Int'l Potato Centre, Bioversity International in Viet Nam, China, Philippines,... discussed in succession on the Action Area Asia's overview, selection criteria, research activities, outputs and milestones. By variety of methods such as direct discussion, group discussion, the participants have revised Action Area documents and presents findings and agreement on the outlook of the next three year.

In the end of the meeting, the interaction between organizations under CRP 1.2 has been considered especially awareness on the gaps and opportunities in research and funding have been concerned and discussed by the leading scientist from CGIAR's organizations, in order to sum up lesson learnt towards the improvement of the quality of the projects under CRP 1.2 in the future.

The CGIAR (originally the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) is a strategic alliance that unites organizations involved in agricultural research for sustainable development with the donors that fund such work. These donors include governments of developing and industrialized countries, foundations and international and regional organizations. The work they support is carried out by the 15 members of the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers including the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), in close collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations, including national and regional agricultural research institutes, civil society organizations, academia and the private sector.

CGIAR Research Program (CRP) 1.2 is entitled "Humidtropics: Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics." Humidtropics will increase development options and strengthen the capacity of the poor and vulnerable in the humid tropics to improve their livelihoods and living environment based on promising agricultural systems' innovations and technologies. Humidtropics fulfills a key integrative function for all 15 CRPs' research activities of relevance to the humid tropics and provides a unique balance between productivity enhancement, natural resources integrity and institutional issues.

Humidtropics is about partnerships to help the poor and vulnerable in the humid tropics of Africa, Asia and Americas. The Humid and Sub-Humid agro-ecologies cover 3.5 billion hectares with 2.6 billion people.