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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.36, November 2007
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N E W S
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- Beitritt zum Welttreuhandfonds für Kulturpflanzenvielfalt (SDC)
- Weltweite Verknappung treibt Kosten für Reis in die Höhe (LID)
- Jean Ziegler fordert Biotreibstoff-Moratorium (LID)
- Will biofuels deprive the world’s poor of their daily bread? (SDC)
- New Executive Director for the Syngenta Foundation
- Dwarf plant to help fight hunger in Africa (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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- Le Droit à l’alimentation / Recht auf Nahrung
  Presentations of World Food Day Symposium 2007 in Bern
- Securing enough food for all
  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
- Biofuels, Opportunity or threat to the poor
  Issue Paper by SDC
- Decolonizing African Agricultural History
  Al Imfeld

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

E V E N T S
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- How can agriculture help reduce poverty?
  Conference debate on the World Development Report 2008
  (09.11.2007, Bern, Switzerland)
- Energy and food: are biofuels a global and sustainable solution?
  (05.12.2007, EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Making aid work
  International symposium organized by Novartis Foundation
  (07.12.2007, Basel, 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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- Assistant Professor with tenure track in Rural Sociology
  Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany
- Post-Doctoral Fellow – Agricultural Economics 
  ICRISAT, Nairobi, Kenya or Lilongwe, Malawi
- Director General
  AVRDC, Shanhua, Taiwan

... 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: March 2008, Basel (Syngenta Foundation)

- Minutes of last SFIAR Meeting will be available soon

 
... more info: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/sfiarinterndoc.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)

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