SFIAR Website: the information platform of Switzerland
on agricultural research for development.
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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.18, June 2004
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N E W S
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- UNO-Millenniumsziele: Armut-Was macht Wirtschaft? (Swisscontact)
- Diskussion: Grüne Gentechnik und Ernährungssicherung in EL (GTZ)
- Syngenta donates genomics seed collection to public research
- National Information Day: Call for Proposals Life Sciences (FP6)
- Die Welt schaut auf unsere Bauern (St. Galler Tagblatt)
- FAO: Gen-Revolution als Hoffnung für die Armen (NZZ)
- Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award 2004 - call for applications
- Syngentas Gentech-Strategie unter Beschuss von Bauern/NGOs (EvB)

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

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Food security for better health in developing countries, 
  Posters and Presentations of the ZIL Conference 2004
- A general discussion of agricultural biotechnology,
  Workshop Report, March 2004, ETH Zurich
- Can Value Chains Trigger Pro-Poor Growth? The Cashew Sector in
  Mozambique as a Learning Example, A. Schild/E. Katz
- Global Agriculture: How much liberalisation is needed?
  The negotiating positions in the current WTO agriculture
  negotiations; InfoResources Focus No 1/04, February 2004

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

E V E N T S
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- Lifelong Learning for the Rural Area - CIEA Seminar 2004
  (August 15-28, 2004, Grangeneuve, Switzerland)
- Agricultural Development and Rural Poverty under Globalization:
  Asymmetric Processes and Differentiated Outcomes. 85th Seminar
  of the European Association of Agriculture Economists
  (September 8-11, 2004, Florence, Italy)
- 3rd International Conference on Biological Invasions NEOBIOTA
  (September 30 - October 1, 2004, Bern, Switzerland)
- Rural Poverty Reduction through Research for Development
  and Transformation - Deutscher Tropentag 2004
  (October 5-7, 2004, Berlin, Germany)
- Genetische Ressourcen und Ernährungssicherheit
  (October 14, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland)
  
... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/events.htm

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- Programmbeauftragte/r (100%) im Bereich Agroökonomie, Agronomie
  oder Naturwissenschaften, SDC, Bern, Switzerland
- Programmverantwortliche/n (70%): Indien, Myanmar/Burma,
  Swissaid, Bern, Switzerland
- Plant Breeder / Geneticist,
  International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
- International Research Fellow (Soil Scientist), 
  IRRI, Los Baños, Philippines

... more info: http://www.sfiar.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: 13 October, 2004 at SHL in Zollikofen

- Minutes of SFIAR meeting of 3 March, 2004 at FiBL in Frick

... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/meeting.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

- Updated address list of all SFIAR participants

... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/address.htm 
    (SFIAR members only)


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