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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.35, August 2007
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N E W S
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- Syngenta introduces tropical sugar beet for food and biofuels
- Entwicklung – spezifisch und verflochten (NZZ)
- Golden Rice-Projekt: Empört über Verzögerung (ETH Life)
- Call for Papers: 2nd ISOFAR Scientific Conference (ISOFAR)
- Legal assistance for Kyrgyz farmers: More law – less poverty (SDC)
- CGIAR Challenge Programs - Call for Pre-Proposals (CGIAR)
 
 ... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/news.htm

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Donor Interventions in Value Chain Development
  Community of Practice on Value Chains in Rural Development
- Relevance and Impact of Research for Development
  Poster Exhibition at Inauguration of North-South Centre at ETH
- Making media markets work for the rural poor – Experience of 
  rural radio in Uganda
  Gavin Anderson in Rural Development News, Agridea
- Assessing the Potential of Fair Trade for Poverty Reduction and
  Conflict Prevention: A Case Study of Bolivian Coffee Producers
  Sandra Imhof / Andrew Lee, swisspeace / University of Basel

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

E V E N T S
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- The new world agricultural order: perspectives for the small-
  scale agricultural producers
  (21.09.2007, Cugy/Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Exploiting Diversity in Land Use Systems: Sustainable and Organic
  Approaches to Meet People's Needs (Deutscher Tropentag 2007)
  (09.-11.10.2007, Witzenhausen, Germany)
- Le droit à l’alimentation / Recht auf Nahrung
  (16.10.2007, Bern, 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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- Country Programme Manager - various positions
  IFAD, Rome, Italy 
- Senior Scientist, Plant Population Geneticist
  Bioversity International, Serdang, Malaysia
- Professur W3 „Internationaler Agrarhandel und 
  Welternährungswirtschaft"
  University of Hohenheim, Germany

... 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: 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)

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