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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.27, April 2006
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N E W S
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- Experts tackle the effects of desertification (Swissinfo)
- Fathers of the Golden Rice reap reward (ETH)
- Moratorium für Terminator-Pflanzen verlängert (EvB)
- Worries About Attitude Towards Science (Forschung für Leben)
- Initiative on indicators and assessment of sustainability (SHL)

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

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Potential and challenges of agriculture to contribute to
  pro-poor growth
  Elisabeth Katz in: Rural Development News, Agridea
- Biotechnology and Food Security
  InfoResources Focus No 1/06, February 2006
- Transgenic crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis toxins
  and biological control
  Jörg Romeis/Michael Meissle/Franz Bigler, Nature Biotechnology
- The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging
  Trends 2006. Helga Willer/Minou Yussefi (Hrsg.), IFOAM
- Symposium Report "Poor health, food insecurity and poverty -
  How to break a vicious circle?" InfoAgrar

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

E V E N T S
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- Monopole auf Leben? Eine Tagung zu Biotech-Patenten
  (03.05.2006, Berne, Switzerland)
- Innovative Management of Scarce Resources in Semi-Arid Areas
  (31.05.2006, Berne, Switzerland)
- Trees for Poverty Alleviation - ZIL Annual Conference 2006
  (09.06.2006, Zürich, Switzerland)
- The Future of Drylands 
  (19.-21.06.2006, Tunis, Tunisia)

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

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- Professorship "International Food Economics & Rural Development"
  Georg–August–University of Göttingen, Germany
- Scientist – Water-livestock Research
  ILRI, Addis Ababa,  Ethiopia
- Geschäftsführer/in Tropenzentrum
  University of Hohenheim, Germany
- Postdoctoral fellowship for spatially explicit risk modeling
  University of Zurich, Switzerland

... 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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- Presentations by Katharina Jenny:
  > SDC Draft Guidelines on Green Biotechnology 
  > CGIAR 2006
  
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/sfiarinterndoc.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

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