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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.30, October 2006
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N E W S
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- CGIAR Virtual Library (CGIAR)
- Funding for Sustainable Agriculture Research (DFID/BBSRC)
- Proposals for Swiss-South African Scientific Seminars (SNF)
- The new piracy: how West 'steals' Africa's plants (The Observer)
- Using plants to remove soil pollutants ... (NCCR Plant Survival)

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

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Désertification, faim et pauvreté
  Report of an international conference on desertification
  IIED, SDC, IUED
- Soils on the global agenda. Developing international mechanisms
  for sustainable land management
  H. Hurni, M. Giger, K. Meyer (Eds). CDE
- Public-Private Partnerships in Value Chains for Rural Development
  Ueli Scheuermeier, Agridea
- From Common Principles to Common Practice
  Report of a Symposium on Indicator and Assessment Systems
  INFASA, IISD, SHL

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

E V E N T S
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- Investing in Agriculture for Food Security. A conference on the
  occasion of World Food Day 2006
  (13.10.2006, Berne, Switzerland)
- Symposium on Farmers´Decisions, Land Use and Environmental
  Impacts
  (19.10.2006, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Bauern - Spielball der Globalisierung. Faire Regeln für eine
  lebensdienliche Landwirtschaft
  (18.11.2006, Zollikofen, 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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- Executive Director
  Syngenta Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
- Marktexpertin oder Marktexperte Biolandbau
  FiBL, Frick, Switzerland
- Agricultural Policy Specialist
  ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria

... 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: 25.10.2006, Lausanne (EPFL/ISCB)
- Minutes of last SFIAR Meeting
- Updated address list of SFIAR members
  
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/sfiarinterndoc.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

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