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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.23, June 2005
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N E W S
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- EFARD 2005: Issues Paper / Zurich Declaration now online
- Swiss Interim Report on the Millennium Development Goals (SDC)  
- Research collaboration on natural products in China (Syngenta)
- Millenniumsziele: Hilfswerke fordern mehr Engagement
- Protests against Seed Patents at Syngenta General Assembly (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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- Welcher Handel nützt den Armen? Zehn Jahre WTO aus der
  Sicht des Südens, Michel Egger, Swisscoalition
- Assessing the reuse potential for organic waste products in
  urban and peri-urban agriculture, Dionys Forster / 
  Agnes Montangero / Roland Schertenleib in: RAMIRAN editor
- Genetic Engineering in Agriculture -  a predictable catastrophe?
  Documentation of a Symposium organised by Swissaid

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

E V E N T S
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- Small money - big impact: Banking with the poor
  Annual Development Cooperation Conference
  (August 26, 2005, Fribourg, Switzerland)
- Fair Trade Fair
  (August 31, 2005, Berne, Switzerland)
- 2nd International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods
  (September 12-16, 2005, Davos, Switzerland)
- Poor health, food insecurity and poverty - How to break
  a vicious circle?
  (October 13, 2005, Berne, 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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- Agricultural Specialist, 
  Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C., USA
- Senior Officer (Agricultural Research),
  Secretariat of the Science Council to the CGIAR, Rome, Italy
- Scientist in the field of Tropical Livestock Nutrition,
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- International Technical Advisor for the Sustainable Soil
  Management Programme,
  Intercooperation / Helvetas, Kathmandu, Nepal

... 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: 19 October, 2005 at CABI in Delémont

- Minutes of last SFIAR meeting at ZIL in Zürich
- Document: Swiss contribution to ERA – ARD
- Documents on CGIAR Performance Measurement System
  
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/meeting.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

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