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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.48, December 2009
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T W I T T E R
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- You can now follow SFIAR on Twitter:
  http://www.twitter.com/sfiar

N E W S
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- Reducing greenhouse gases, sequestering carbon... (FiBL)
- New funds: Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation (DFID)
- GCARD Regional consultation - Final synthesis for Europe 
- Call for Joint Research Projects: Switzerland - Brazil (EPFL)
- Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize 
 
 ... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/news.htm

P U B L I C A T I O N S
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- Natural resources: the climate change challenge
  NCCR North-South, evidence for policy, No. 4 December 2009 
- Bioenergy for the Poor: Two Sides of a Coin
  InfoResources Focus No 3/09, November 2009

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

E V E N T S
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- Biodiversität – unsere Zukunft: 5. NATUR-Kongress 
  (12.02.2010, Basel, Switzerland)
- 1st Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development
  (28.-31.03.2010, Montpellier, France)
- Climate change and food security – the role of Agriculture
  (15.04.2010, Switzerland - tentative title, venue open)

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

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- Agricultural Economists – Senior Scientist or Scientist
  CIMMYT, duty station open
- Senior Technical Adviser - Agriculture
  IFAD, Rome, Italy
- Deputy Director-General (Research) 
  Bioversity International, Rome, Italy  

... 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 (Swissaid), March/April 2010

Latest Documents:
- Minutes of the SFIAR Meeting of 2 October at CDE in Bern
- Presentation of CDE
- Assisi Statement on Agricultural Advisory Services

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

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