SFIAR Website: the information platform of Switzerland
on agricultural research for development.
http://www.sfiar.ch

*****************************************************************
SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.34, June 2007
*****************************************************************

N E W S
-----------------------------------------------------------------
- NGO Campaign "0,7% - Gemeinsam gegen Armut"
- EPFL awarded UNESCO Chair in Development Technologies (EPFL)
- Biolandbau verbessert Welternährung (FiBL)
- Syngenta accused of violating FAO code of conduct (EvB)
- Deutsche Zusammenfassung des ersten Teils des IPCC-AR4 (ProClim)
 
 ... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/news.htm

P U B L I C A T I O N S
-----------------------------------------------------------------
- Organic Agriculture and Food Availability 
  Ch. Zundel, L. Kilcher, FiBL 
- The Livestock Revolution: An Opportunity for Poor Farmers?
  S. Reist, F. Hintermann, R. Sommer, InfoResources Focus No 1/07
- The Role of Microfinance in Rural Microenterprise Development
  H. D. Seibel (University of Cologne). Syngenta Foundation
  for Sustainable Agriculture

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

E V E N T S
-----------------------------------------------------------------
- Relevance and impact of research for development
  Inauguration of ETH Zurich's North South Centre
  (29.06.2007, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Research day at Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
  (17.08.2007, Frick, Switzerland)
- New Approaches to Plant Breeding of Orphan Crops in Africa
  (19.-21.09.2007, Bern, Switzerland)

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

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
-----------------------------------------------------------------
- Postdoc- oder Oberassistenzstelle in Agrarökonomie
  ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Adviser to Vice-President
  International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, Italy
- Post Doctoral Fellow – Integrated Water Resources Management
  IWMI / ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

... 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
-----------------------------------------------------------------
- Next SFIAR Meeting: 3 October 2007, Zollikofen (SHL)

- Minutes of last SFIAR Meeting and workshop on future 
  development of SFIAR
- Documents and Presesentations of last SFIAR Meeting
  (includig results of "SFIAR Fitness Test")
  
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/sfiarinterndoc.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

*****************************************************************
ABOUT THIS NEWS SERVICE:

This news mail is published every 2 months. Its aim is
to keep people informed about news and changes on the
SFIAR website. If you have comments on this service
or on the website, don't hesitate to contact the author:
felix.hintermann@infoagrar.ch

You receive this news mail because you are a participant of
SFIAR, or you have ordered it via the SFIAR website.

If you prefer not to receive it anymore, please go to:
http://www.sfiar.ch/newsmail.htm, enter your 
e-mail address and select "unsubscribe"