AVRDC Director General Dyno Keatinge spoke about the “The importance of horticulture for pro-poor development” at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn on 13 January 2014, to mark the inauguration of ZEF as the new secretariat of the Global Horticultural Initiative. The GlobalHort secretariat will be led by Dr. Detlef Virchow, ZEF senior researcher and former AVRDC researcher.