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SFIAR WEBSITE NEWSMAIL, Issue No.17, April 2004
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N E W S
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- Dairy Partners Americas To Become Active in Ecuador... (Nestlé)
- Certificat de formation continue en biosecurité (IUED)
- Kahlschlag für Tierfutter aus Soja - so nein! (WWF)
- Zollerleichterungen für ärmste Entwicklungsländer (seco) 
- Syngenta-Herbizid Paraquat vor Gericht (EvB)
- Syngenta supports Global Crop Diversity Trust (Syngenta)
- Bericht/Referate Eröffnungsanlass zum Reisjahr (claro)
- New Study: The World of Organic Agriculture (FiBl et al.) 

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

E V E N T S
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- Food security for better health in developing countries
  Annual Conference of ZIL
  (June 11, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland)
- 1st World Congress of Agroforestry: Working Together Towards
  Sustainable Land-Use Systems
  (June 27 - July 2, 2004, Orlando, USA)
- Lifelong Learning for the Rural Area - CIEA Seminar 2004
  (August 15-28, 2004, Grangeneuve, Switzerland)
- Agricultural Development and Rural Poverty under Globalization:
  Asymmetric Processes and Differentiated Outcomes. 85th Seminar
  of the European Association of Agriculture Economists
  (September 8-11, 2004, Florence, Italy)
  
... more info: http://www.sfiar.ch/events.htm

J O B   V A C A N C I E S
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- Technical Coordinator: On-Farm Water + Soil Fertility Management
  ICARDA, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- PhD Position,
  University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany / Honduras
- Doctoral position in research project on improved feeding
  systems for smallholder dairy cattle,
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland / Peru
- Training Coordinator,
  CIMMYT, Mexico City, Mexico

... 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: 13 October, 2004 at SHL in Zollikofen
- Minutes of SFIAR meeting of 3 March, 2004 at FiBL in Frick
    
... available at: http://www.webhint.ch/sfiar/meeting.htm  
    (SFIAR members only)


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