ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. A comprehensive list of scholarships, fellowships and grants of interest to young activists are listed on the Global Youth Connect website. The web address is www.globalyouthconnect.org/Pages/scholarships.html.

ORGANIZATION PROFILE

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
The Centre for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of the Free State offers postgraduate students the opportunity to acquire skills in an inter- and multidisciplinary course, over a minimum period of two years, based upon a parallel-medium distance education technique. Study is completed with a research project and submission of a thesis. Graduates earn a master's degree in sustainable agriculture (MSA).

The objectives of the program are:

• to develop and verify sustainable agricultural production systems for the semiarid regions of Southern Africa that will comply with the prerequisites of sustainability,
• to educate experts capable of creating, managing, and maintaining such production systems through on-farm research and extension activities or the Farming Systems Research and Extension (FSR&E) approach, and
• to facilitate a paradigm shift toward the concept of sustainability and resource conservation.

The Centre for Sustainable Agriculture states that any agricultural production system must comply with the following prerequisites in order to be sustainable: economical productivity, biological productivity, conservation and management of natural resources, security and minimization of risk, and social acceptance. For more information, visit www.uovs.ac.za/faculties/agric/csa

2020 Vision Network for East Africa
The East Africa Network consists of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda, with Ethiopia participating as an observer for the time being. To assure that the network remains sustainable and relevant, IFPRI has become partners with the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa, in particular its Eastern and Central Africa Program for Agricultural Policy Analysis. The network was established as part of International Food Policy Research Institute's 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment initiative. The 2020 Vision initiative is helping to develop a shared vision and consensus for action on how to meet future world food needs in a sustainable manner. For more information, visit www.ifpri.org/2020/nw/intro.htm

• Sustainable Food Security for All by 2020
  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

• Agro-Development: Linking Farmers to Markets
  FOODNET

• Data Collection in Agriculture
  Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD)

• Training-of-Trainers' Course on Agroforesty for Community Development for the Eastern and Central Africa
  Makerere University and the International Centre for Agroforestry Research

• 2nd Welcome Trust Workshop on HIV/AIDS and TB

• Study Tour/Training Program on State of the Art Agricultural
  International Fertilizer Development Center

• Infrastructure in a Market Economy
  Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government

• An International Short Course on Food Safety
  Michigan State University and National Food Safety and Toxicology Center

• Senior Managers in Government
  Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government

• International Training Program on Computer Simulation for Crop Growth and Management Responses
  International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)

• Understanding the New World of Health Care
  Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government

• Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the Middle East and North Africa
  Economic Research Forum

• INTERREG II C project PROCOAST

• Environmental Expo 2001: Towards a Cleaner Environment

• Economics, Innovation, Technological Progress, and Environmental Policy
  German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, University Rostock, Heidelberg University, and GSF-Project Management Office for Environment and Climate.

• 2001 Gender Festival: Gender, Democracy, and Development: Transformative Approaches for Challenging Poverty

• International Conference on Globalisation of Research and Development

• 30th Annual Conference of Economists

• Biotechnology and Sustainable Development: Voices of the South and the North

• International Symposium on Agrobiodiversity Management
  United Nations University, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

• Sustainable Crop-Livestock Production for Improved Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management in West Africa
  International Livestock Research Institute

A Research Competition on the Economics of Natural Resource and Environmental Management
South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE)

Three-year Doctoral Training Fellowship
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)