Content of this issue:

• AARINENA Strategy Toward 2035
• Other Activities including the 31st and 32nd GFAR Steering Committee Meeting, 2017 at FAO, Rome, Italy; NENA Regional Workshop on Information for PGR organized in cooperation with the ITPGRFA , 8-12 May 2017, Cairo, Egypt;  Regional workshop on: Models and successful stories of Research, Development Knowledge and Innovation Exchange in NENA Region, 24-25 July 2017 at İZMİR, Turkey; AARINENA Executive Committee Meetings, Jan, July, and Dec 2017; AARINENA Transformation Process as Multi-Stakeholder Regional For a on Research and Innovation, started in Cooperation with GFAR.