SFIAR Website: the information platform of Switzerland
on agricultural research for development.
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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.26, February 2006
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N E W S
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- New extension tools for organic cotton production (FiBL)
- Keine Patente auf unsere Zukunft (Swissaid)
- Swiss Transdisciplinarity Award 2006
- NCCR North-South Phase 2: Activities restructured 

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

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Poor health, food insecurity and poverty - How to break a
  vicious circle? Symposium report and presentations, InfoAgrar
- Simen Mountains Study 2004. Intermediate Report on the 2004
  Field Expedition to the Simen Mountains in Northern Ethiopia,
  Eva Ludi, NCCR North-South
- Farmer Centred Innovation Development. Experiences and
  challenges from South Asia, Annette Kolff et al.(Eds),
  Intercooperation
- Für mehr Vielfalt in der Handelspolitik. Resultate des
  Symposiums "Welcher Handel nützt den Armen?", Alliance Sud

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

E V E N T S
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- International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
  (March 7-10, 2006, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
- Symposium on Indicator and Assessment Systems
  (March 16-17, 2006, Berne, Switzerland)
- Desertification, hunger and poverty
  (April 11-12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland)
- Monopole auf Leben? Eine Tagung zu Biotech-Patenten
  (May 3, 2006, 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 Scientist/Entomologist,
  CIAT, Cali, Colombia
- Capacity Strengthening Manager,
  ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Remote Sensing Specialist,
  ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria
- Post Doctoral Fellow - Insect Genetics,
  ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya

... 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: 1 March 2006, at SDC in Berne
- Minutes of last SFIAR Meeting (19 October 2005, Delémont) 
  
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/meeting.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

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