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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.24, September 2005
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N E W S
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- Forscherteam entziffert Reis-Erbgut vollständig (Basler Zeitung)
- M.S. Swaminathan visits Switzerland (SDC)
- Research Fellow Partnership Programme - Call for Proposals (ZIL)
- Syngenta - a step closer to «owning» our food (EvB)
- Microfinance: A Path to Prosperity (SDC/seco Symposium)
- US-Forscher arbeiten an Impf-Tomate gegen Sars (Basler Zeitung)

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

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Grüne Gentechnologie in der Schweiz,
  Karina Farinati Kramer, Verein Forschung für Leben
- Livelihood Strategies in North-West Pakistan,
  Bernd Steimann, NCCR North-South

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

E V E N T S
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- 2nd International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods
  (September 12-16, 2005, Davos, Switzerland)
- Wie global denkt die Schweizerische Forschung?
  KFPE-Jahrestagung 2005
  (September 22, 2005, Berne, Switzerland)
- Wir ernähren die Welt! Wie Bäuerinnen und Bauern aus der Schweiz,
  Indien, Ecuador und Tansania ums Überleben kämpfen
  (October 6, 2005, Berne, 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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- Senior Officer (National Agricultural Research),
  FAO Research and Technology Development Service, Rome, Italy
- Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow and Leader of IFPRI's
  Country Strategy Program in Uganda, 
  IFPRI, Kampala, Uganda
- Food Security Officer (Micro-Projects), 
  FAO, Rome, Italy

... 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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