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SWISS NODE NEWS MAIL, Issue No.15, November 2003
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N E W S
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- Ärmste Länder sind gegen Liberalisierung des EU-Zuckermarktes
- Syngenta improves safe use of crop protection products in China
- Verlängerung des Mandats: Importförderungsprogramm SIPPO
- Documents of Symposium "Ohne Wasser keine Nahrung"
- Kaffeekrise: Abwarten und Tee trinken?

... more info: http://www.sfiar.infoagrar.ch/news.htm

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Documents of Symposium "Food Security and Biodiversity - 
  Sharing the Benefit of Plant Genetic Resources"
- From ‘Good’ Research to the ‘Right’ Research; 
  Clive Lightfoot and Ueli Scheuermeier 
- A Story on Business Development in Rural Areas.
  (Northern Pakistan); Muhammad Riaz
- Trends in the Organization and Financing of Agricultural Research
  in Developed Countries; Willem Janssen, Thomas Braunschweig

... more info: http://www.sfiar.infoagrar.ch/publicat.htm

E V E N T S
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- Opportunities and limits of the BDS approach in rural areas.
  Small Enterprise Development Workshop 2004
  (January 8-9, 2004, Gerzensee, Switzerland)
- Institutional Models of University Collaboration with Developing
  Countries. NIDECO Workshop
  (January 26, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Scientific cooperation: Balancing social demands with 
  technological challenges North-South sustainable development - 
  What is at stake? (February 12-13, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland)
- 3rd International IFOAM Organic Coffee Conference
  (March 29 - April 3, 2004, Kampala, Uganda)
  
... more info: http://www.sfiar.infoagrar.ch/events.htm

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- Specialist in Agricultural Cropping Systems and Extension
  SDC, Pyongyang, North Corea
- Director of Development for the Global Crop Diversity Trust
  IPGRI, Rome, Italy
- Executive Director (senior scientist or postdoctoral level)  
  Mountain Research Initiative, Bern/Zurich, Switzerland

... more info: http://www.sfiar.infoagrar.ch/jobs.htm

S F I A R - I N T E R N A L - P A G E S
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- Next SFIAR meeting: 3 March 2004, 13:00 at FiBL, Frick
- Minutes of SFIAR meeting of 18 September at CDE, Bern
- Presentation about CDE by Hans Hurni
    
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/meeting.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)


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