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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.25, November 2005
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N E W S
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- Researching Sustainable Systems: First ISOFAR Conference (FiBL) 
- Call for proposals Switzerland/South Africa (SNF)
- The golden rice controversy (checkbiotech.org)

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

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Gentechnologie bekämpft den Hunger nicht
  Alliance Sud
- Choosing the Right Projects - Designing Selection Processes
  for North-South Research Partnership Programmes,
  Priska Sieber/Thomas Braunschweig, KFPE
- Calf mortality and parasitism in periurban livestock
  production in Mali, Diss. Monica Nathalie Wymann, Uni Basel
- Golden Rice - the Partitioning of Influence,
  Adrian C Dubock, Syngenta International AG
- Value Chains: What is Behind this 'New' Key Word?
  Daniel Roduner, Rural Development News, LBL

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

E V E N T S
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- Transboundary Management of Natural Resources in
  Transition Countries
  (November 17, 2005, Berne, Switzerland  
- Wissen ist teilbar. BioVision-Informationsveranstaltung
  mit Hans Herren
  (November 27, 2005, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Organic cotton - combining consumer's concern and
  poverty reduction
  (November 30, 2005, Lucerne, Switzerland)
- Biotechnology Approaches for Alleviating Malnutrition
  and Human Health
  (January 9-11, 2006, Bangalore, India)
  
... 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 Wheat (2) and Maize (1) Breeders Positions, 
  CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico
- Scientist, Education and Capacity Development, 
  IPGRI, Rome, Italy
- Plant Production Officer (Industrial Crops), 
  FAO Regional Office for Asia and Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand

... 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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- Various Documents on Issues for CGIAR Annual General Meeting 
  
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/meeting.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

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