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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.19, September 2004
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N E W S
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- Wasser und Landwirtschaft (Helvetas "Partnerschaft")
- Indian Organic Market Development Project (FiBL)
- WTO-Konsens über den Verhandlungsrahmen (NZZ)
- WTO: Kein Wille zu einer Entwicklungsrunde (EvB) 
- Restaurant-Aktion zum Internationalen Reisjahr (EvB)
- Report 2003 on Switzerland’s international cooperation (SDC)
- Gene banks for food security (SDC)
- Prix CSRS - Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch (open for applications)

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

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Finding new things and ways that work. A Manual for Introducing
  Participatory Innovation Development (PID),
  Ueli Scheuermeier / Elisabeth Katz / Stephanie Heiland, LBL
- Toward sustainable rural land use planning practices 
  in Botswana: the concept for an "Integrated Rural Plan",
  Branko I. Cavric / Marco Keiner
- Holistic Sustainability Assessment at the Farm Level, 
  Fritz Häni, October 2002

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

E V E N T S
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- Gentechnik und Entwicklungsländer - Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion
  aus ethischer Perspektive
  (September 9, 2004, Bern, Switzerland)
- Genetische Ressourcen und Ernährungssicherheit
  (October 14, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Liberalisation of Agricultural Trade - a Solution?
  (October 20-22, 2004, Berlin, Germany)
- World Rice Research Conference
  (November 4-7, 2004, Tokyo/Tsukuba, Japan)
  
... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/events.htm

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- Executive Secretary Global Crop Diversity Trust,
  Global Crop Diversity Trust (FAO/IPGRI), Rome, Italy
- 3 Postdoctoral Fellows,
  IFPRI, ISNAR Divisional headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, 
  IAMO, Halle (Saale), Germany
- Director General,
  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)

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