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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.45, June 2009
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SFIAR AWARD 2009
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- Call for applications, deadline: 30 June!

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

N E W S
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- Schweizer Engagement zur Erhaltung pflanzengenetischer... (BLW)
- Die nächste Preisexplosion kommt bestimmt (Tagesanzeiger)
- 50 Projekte in der Agrar- und Lebensmittelforschung (Euresearch)
- Landraub auf Kosten der dritten Welt (Zeitfragen)
- Nestlé launches major initiatives in rural development...
 
 ... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/news.htm

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Benefits of Sustainable Land Management
  Ernst Gabathuler et al. WOCAT / CDE
- Geographical Indications: creation and distribution of economic
  value in developing countries
  Sophie Reviron et al. NCCR Trade Regulation
- The future of seeds and food - under the growing threat of
  patents and market concentration
  Ch. Then & R. Tippe. EvB, Swissaid, et al.

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

E V E N T S
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- Tag der offenen Tür am FiBL
  (16.08.2009, Frick, Switzerland)
- SDC and SECO Annual Conference: Climate change and development
  (21.08.2009, Zürich, Switzerland)
- Climate Change as a Challenge to Soil and Land Management
  (27.08.2009, Bern, Switzerland)
- 1st All Africa Horticulture Congress "Grown Under the Sun"
  (31.08.-03.09.2009, Nairobi, Kenya)

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

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- Professor: "Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural..."
  University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
- Leiter/in für die Fachgruppe „Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit“
  FiBL, Frick, Switzerland 
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Heat Stress Breeding
  IRRI, Los Baños, Philippines

... 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: 
- Bern (CDE), beginning of September 2009

Latest Documents:
- Minutes of the SFIAR Meeting of 31 March at FiBL in Frick
- Presentation of FiBL
- SDC’s Global Programme Food Security
- SDC CGIAR Reform Update

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

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