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26.01.2012 - News:
Distancing markets from conventional thinking
Hint on two studies that implicate a rethinking on the topic of market access, found on the website of the syngentha foundation for sustainable agriculture
26.01.2012 - Job:
Postdoctoral Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Lilongwe, Malawi
26.01.2012 - Publication:
Seasonal arsenic cycling in irrigated paddy soils in Bangladesh and arsenic uptake by rice
Dissertation by Jessica Dittmar, ETH Zürich, 2010
26.01.2012 - News:
Final Congress of the Carbon Credits for Sustainable Land Use Systems (CaLas) Project
Fibl executed a meta-analysis of global data on two parameters on climate impact of organic and non-organic agricultural systems. The results were presented at the final congress of the CaLas project (Carbon Credits from Sustainable Land Use Systems), held in December 15, 2011.
26.01.2012 - News:
Regulating biofuels production without impairing national food security
Presentation by Christian Häberli at the Third UNCTAD Global Commodities Forum on Globalization and Commodity Trade: Harnessing Development Gains from Commodity Production
26.01.2012 - Publication:
Research Evidence for Policy - ‘Green economy’: development opportunity or buzzword? PDF, 876 KB
Green economy will be discussed at the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012. Green Economy in developing countries is linked to agriculture. Small-scale farming has the potential to mitigate climate change. The document points to policy implications of the NCCR North- South research on green economy.
23.01.2012 - Job:
Poste académique: Agroécologie tropicale
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique
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