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ANNOUNCEMENTS
- IFPRI Training Material
Poverty Mapping and Market Access in Vietnam Project
- IFPRI Forum
This newly designed newsletter merges and replaces IFPRI Perspectives and 2020 News and Views. It will be published quarterly. To download or order, visit http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/newsletters/ifpriforum/IF200303.htm.
- Restructuring at IFPRI
To meet new development challenges more effectively, IFPRI is adjusting its long-term strategy and restructuring its research divisions. For more information, visit http://www.ifpri.org/about/about.htm#changes.
- Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Biodiversity
This workshop was held in January 2002 by the European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) and the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. The workshop shared findings from biodiversity assessments, to support local people in managing biodiversity and recommended next steps for biodiversity monitoring and evaluation, to benefit rural people and national-level biodiversity managers. 300 participants from 55 countries contributed to this internet conference. To view the summaries of the on-line workshop proceedings, visit http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/workshop/biodiversity/index.html or email anna.lawrence@eci.ox.ac.uk.
- FAO-BiotechNews
FAO-BiotechNews is a free e-mail newsletter from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) containing news and event announcements relevant to food and agriculture biotechnology applications in developing countries. It covers crop, forestry, animal, fishery, and agro-industrial sectors. Its aim is to inform policymakers and technical decisionmakers about current developments and issues in agricultural biotechnology, as well as to inform scientists of the wider policy/regulatory/agricultural development aspects of their work. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to mailserv@mailserv.fao.org leaving the subject blank and entering the following one-line text message: subscribe FAO-BiotechNews-L.
- FAO Biotechnology website
Through this website, FAO provides high-quality, updated, and balanced information about agricultural biotechnology to member countries. It is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, and Spanish. It features news and events, with a searchable archive; the FAO statement on biotechnology; an overview of FAO's activities in agricultural biotechnology; an overview of biotechnology in agro-industry, crop, fishery, forestry, and livestock sectors; a selection of recent, downloadable, FAO documents on biotechnology; the FAO electronic forum on biotechnology in food and agriculture, which has hosted eight e-mail conferences in the past three years; the FAO glossary of biotechnology for food and agriculture; a list of members of the FAO working group on biotechnology; biotechnology policy documents of FAO members; and links to relevant websites. For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/biotech/index.asp.
- CGIAR Gender and Diversity Program (G&D) Database
The Gender and Diversity Program runs a global database of women scientists and professionals. Its purpose is to inform women around the world about job vacancies in the CGIAR and other international organizations in a timely manner and to ensure that women everywhere receive information about fellowships, scholarships, and grants. The goal of this "cast-the-net-widely" database is to increase the pool of qualified women applicants for scientific and professional positions. For more information, visit http://www.genderdiversity.cgiar.org/cast_the_net/default.asp.
- Water-L
This new e-mail list for news and announcements related to the World Water Forum and water policy issues was created by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Third World Water Forum and the World Water Council. For more information, visit http://www.iisd.ca/email/water-L.htm.
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INSTITUTION PROFILE
Global Environmental Change and Food Systems
The Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) is an international research program, sponsored by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and the World Climate Research Programme in formal collaboration with the CGIAR, FAO, and World Meteorological Organization. A wide range of social, physical, and biological scientists collaborate to investigate the vulnerability of human food provision and food systems to, and interactions with, global environmental change. The research program aims to determine strategies to cope with the impacts of global environmental change on food provision and consequences of the environment and society. The program is being implemented proactively by undertaking regional studies jointly designed by end-users, donors, other stakeholders, and the global environmental change research community. For more information, visit http://www.gecafs.org.
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NETWORK PROFILE
Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network
The newly created Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network in Canada comprises researchers working to reduce poverty through the analysis of poverty and related economic policies. It receives funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. Its objectives are to better understand the causes and consequences of poverty, propose alternative/accompanying policies to reduce poverty, improve the monitoring and measurement of poverty, develop local research and training, and develop new concepts and methodologies through fundamental research. PEP is composed of three tightly linked constituent networks: Poverty Monitoring, Measurement, and Analysis (PMMA), which develops and applies analytical tools to monitor, measure, and analyze a wide range of poverty issues; Modeling and Policy Impact Analysis (MPIA), which uses economy-wide models and analysis as a "laboratory" to identify and analyze the links between specific policies and shocks and their eventual impacts on poverty; and Community-Based Monitoring Surveys (CBMS), which designs and pilots community based monitoring and local development systems of poverty. For more information, visit http://www.pep-net.org/.
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COURSES/WORKSHOPS
- Organizations: Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC)--Regional Center for Africa (AVRDC-RCA), Tanzania; German Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ), Germany; and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United States
Title: 10th Regional Training Course on Vegetable Crops Production and Research
Location: Arusha, Tanzania
Date: July 7-November 7, 2003
Fees: US $6,000
Deadline: May 20, 2003 (application)
Contact:
M.L. Chadha
Director
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center
Regional Center for Africa
P.O. Box 10
Duluti
Arusha
Tanzania
Phone: 255-27-2553093/ 2553102; Fax: 255-27-2553125
Email: avrdc-arp@cybernet.co.tz
- Organizations: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Vrije Universteit, and Wageningen University, all in the The Netherlands
Title: Master of Science in Development Economics
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Date: September 2003
Fees: € 10,000
Duration: One year Program
Deadline: June 15, 2003 (application)
Contact:
Rob Vos
Programme Administrator
Master of Science in Development Economics
Institute of Social Studies
P.O. Box 29776
2502 LT The Hague
The Netherlands
Phone: 31-70-426-0460; Fax: 31-70-426-0799
Email: mscdevecon@iss.nl/ MSEASST@iss.nl; Web: http://www.mscdevecon.nl
- Organization: Michigan State University, United States
Title: Chinese Distribution System
Location: East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Date: May 7-13, 2003
Contact:
Brenda Sternquist
Michigan State University
College of Human Ecology--Lifelong Education
Phone: 1-517-353-7799/ 1-800-776-1228
Email: osbun@msu.edu
- The EcoMod Summer School at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, is offering the following courses:
Contact:
Anouk Verlinden/ Ali Bayar
EcoMod Network
Department of Applied Economics
Free University of Brussels
Avenue F. Roosevelt
50 C.P. 140
BE-1050 Brussels
Belgium
Phone: 32-2-650-3988; Fax: 32-2-650-4137
Email: Anouk.verlinden@ecomod.net
- Title: Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: July 14-19, 2003
Fees: US $2,760
Web: http://www.ecomod.net/courses/cge_introduction/introd_course.htm
- Title: Econometrics and Macroeconometric Modeling with EVIEWS
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: July 14-19, 2003
Fees: US $2,760
Web: http://www.ecomod.net/courses/macro_eviews/macro_eviews.htm
- Title: Advanced Techniques in General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: July 21-26, 2003
Fees: US $2,760
Web: http://www.ecomod.net/courses/cge_advanced/advanced_cge.htm
- Title: Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: July 21-26, 2003
Fees: US $2,760
Web: http://www.ecomod.net/courses/cge_olg/olg_course.htm
- Title: Macroeconometric Modeling with TROLL
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: July 21-26, 2003
Fees: US $3470
Web: http://www.ecomod.net/courses/macro_troll/macro_troll.htm
- Organization: Naropa University, United States
Title: 9th Annual Microfinance Training Program (MFT)
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Date: July 14-August 1, 2003
Fees: US $500 (application) and US $3,800 (tuition)
Contact:
Microfinance Training Program
Naropa University Extended Studies
909 14th Street
Boulder
Colorado 80302
United States
Phone: 1-303-245-4805; Fax: 1-303-245-4819
Email: mft@naropa.edu; Web: http://www.naropa.edu/microfinance
- Organizations: Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), both in the United States
Title: Leading to Choices: A Distance Learning Course on Participatory Leadership
Date: May 26-August 3, 2003
Fees: US $425
Deadline: May 1, 2003 (application)
Contact:
Human Rights Education Associates
Distance Learning Applications
P.O. Box 382396
Cambridge
Massachusetts 02238-2396
United States
Phone: 1-617-625-0278; Fax: 1-617-249-0278
Email: applications@hrea.org; Web: http://www.hrea.org/courses/12E.html
- The International Agricultural Centre (IAC), The Netherlands, is offering the following courses:
Contact:
International Agricultural Centre
P.O. Box 88
6700 AB Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: 31-317-495-495; Fax: 31-317-495-395
Email: Training@IAC.AGRO.NL
- Title: International Course on Livestock-Environment Interactions
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Date: November 17-28, 2003
Fees: € 2,500
Deadline: September 1, 2003 (application)
Web: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl/services/training/regular/Livestock2003_opti.pdf
- Title: International Course on Decision-making in Natural Resource Management: Economics for the Environment
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Date: October 6-17, 2003
Fees: € 2,500
Deadline: August 1, 2003 (application)
Web: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl/services/training/regular/DNRM2003_opti.pdf
- Title: International Course on Alternative Approaches to Fisheries Management
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Date: October 5- November 21, 2003
Fees: € 4,500
Deadline: August 1, 2003 (application)
Web: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl/services/training/regular/Fishery2003_opti.pdf
- Title: Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Processes and Social Learning: Advanced Course in Upscaling Participatory Approaches
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Date: September 15-October 3, 2003
Fees: € 4,500
Deadline: August 1, 2003 (application)
Web: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl/services/training/regular/FacDRD2003_opti.pdf
- Title: Training Programme on Food and Nutrition Security
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Date: September 8-November 28, 2003
Fees: € 4,500
Deadline: June 1, 2003
Web: http://www.iac.wageningen-ur.nl/services/training/regular/food_security/FoodNutrition2003_opti.pdf
- Organization: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Title: Policies, Management, Utilization and Conservation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the South Asia Region
Location: Bangalore, India
Date: April 28-30, 2003
Contact:
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
PO Box 2402
HA Farm Post
Hebbal
Bangalore 560 024
India
Phone: 91-80-3530069/ 353/ 3942/ 3633942; Fax: 91-80-3530070
Email: info@atree.org; Web: http://www.atree.org/upcoming.html
- Organizations: Department of Social Sciences at the Wageningen University and Research Centre and Foundation for Postgraduate Continuing Education (PHLO) at the International Training Centre, both in The Netherlands
Title: Risk Management in Agriculture, Principles, and Applications
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Date: August 31-September 6, 2003
Fees: € 2,275
Deadline: June 13, 2003 (application) and August 1, 2003 (fees)
Contact:
The International Training Centre (PHLO)
P.O. Box 226
6700 AE Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: 31-317-484092/ 4840933/ 484065; Fax: 31-317-426547
Email: info.phlo@wur.nl/ ruud.huirne@wur.nl; Web: http://www.wau.nl/phlo/phlo_crmia.htm
- Organization: International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), The Netherlands
Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment of R & D Investments in Agriculture
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Date: June 9-20, 2003
Fees: US $2,500
Contact:
Cristina Sette
Learning for Institutional Innovation
International Service for National Agricultural Research
Laan van Nieuw Oost Indie 133
2509 BM The Hague
The Netherlands
Phone: 31-70-3496153; Fax: 31-70-3819677
Email: ISNAR-training@cgiar.org/ c.sette@cgiar.org
- Organizations: International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), The Netherlands and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India
Title: Facilitating the Agricultural Innovation Process
Location: Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India
Date: April 21-May 03, 2003
Fees: US $2,000
Contact:
Zenete Peixoto França
Senior Research Officer
Head of Learning and Capacity Building
ISNAR
P.O. Box 93375
2509 AJ
The Hague
The Netherlands
Phone: 31-70-349-6100; Fax: 31-70-381-9677
Email: ISNAR-training@cgiar.org/ irmo@icrisat.exch.cgiar.org
- Organization: Environmental Management and Assessment Research Group at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Title: New Web Based Course on Environmental Information Management
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: September 2003
Deadline: May 15, 2003 (application)
Contact:
Sindre Langaas
Assistant Professor
Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology
Brinellv. 28
SE 100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: 46-0-8-790-8612; Fax: 46-0-8-411-0775
Email: langaas@kth.se; Web: http://www.lwr.kth.se/grundutbildning/1B4080/index.htm
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CONFERENCES
- Organization: International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN), United States
Title: 11th Face-to-Face Meeting on Current Issues in the Economics of HIV/AIDS
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Date: April 24-25, 2003
For more information, visit http://www.iaen.org/events.php or email info@iaen.org.
- Organization: Global Exchange, United States
Title: 4th International Convention on Environment and Development
Location: Havana, Cuba
Date: May 30-June 8, 2003
Fees: US $1,900
For more information, visit http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/auto/2003-05-30_thInternationalConventiononEn.html or email Rachel Bruhnke at rachel@globalexchange.org.
- Organizations: Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), and the National Farmers' Union (NFU), all in London
Title: Food Production and the New Trade Agenda
Location: Chatham House, London
Date: May 19-20, 2003
Fees: £ 1,051.62 (commercial organizations), £ 699.12 (governmental departments), and £ 346.62 (nongovernmental organizations and academics)
For more information, visit http://www.riia.org/pdf/Food%20and%20Agriculture.pdf or email contact@riia.org.
- Organization: World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Finland
Title: Sharing Global Prosperity
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Date: September 6-7, 2003
Deadline: May 15, 2003
For more information, visit http://www.wider.unu.edu or email prosperity@wider.unu.edu.
- Organization: Southern and Eastern African Association for Farming Systems Research Extension (SEAAFSRE), South Africa
Title: 9th Regional Conference of the SEAAFSRE on Moving Beyond Doing Good Research and Extension to Making a Difference to the Lives of Resource-Constrained Farmers and the Rural Poor
Date: September 29-October 3, 2003
For more information, email fopio@naro-ug.org.
- Organizations: Natural Resources Institute (NRI) at the University of Greenwich at Medway, United Kingdom; Institut de Recherches Médicinales et d'Etudes des Plantes Médicinales (IMPM/MINREST), Cameroon; and the International Foundation for Science (IFS), Sweden
Title: FoodAfrica Initiative on Improving Food Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Responding to a Changing Environment
Location: Yaounde, Cameroon
Date: May 5-9, 2003
Fees: US $150 and US $50 (students)
For more information, visit http://foodafrica.nri.org/conference/documents/leaflet.pdf / http://foodafrica.nri.org/conference/workshop.html or email foodafrica@nri.org.
- Organizations: Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), United States
Title: BIO 2003 Annual Convention
Location: Washington, DC, United States
Date: June 22-25, 2003
Deadline: April 30, 2003 (registration)
For more information, visit http://www.bio.org/events/2003/ or email exhibit@bio.org.
- Organizations: Japan Economic Policy Association (JEPA), Japan
Title: 2nd International Conference on New Economic Governance: The Limit of National Policy and Role of Private Sector
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Date: November 29-30, 2003
Deadline: August 15, 2003 (paper)
For more information, visit http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jepa/621.pdf or email jepa@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp.
- Organization: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), Austria
Title: Fourth Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE)
Location: Vienna, Austria
Date: April 28-30, 2003
For more information, visit http://www.mcpfe.org/index.html or email liaison.unit@lu-vienna.at.
- Organizations: United Nations Division for Sustainable Development, United States
Title: Eleventh Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD11)
Location: New York, United States
Date: April 28-May 9, 2003
For more information, visit http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd11/CSD11.htm or email dsd@un.org.
- Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy
Title: Regulating Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Developing and Transition Countries
Date: April 28-May 25, 2003
For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/biotech/C9doc.htm or email John Ruane at biotech-admin@fao.org.
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FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS / COMPETITIONS
- Organization: Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), Uganda
Title: International Fellowship Program (IFP) for the 2004/2005 academic year
Eligibility: The eligible countries are Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Any academic discipline or field of study related to the Ford Foundation's grant-making areas is eligible. Examples are asset building and community development; knowledge, creativity, and freedom; and peace and social justice
Deadline: April 25, 2003
Contact:
The Project Coordinator
International Fellowships Program
The Inter-University Council for East Africa
East African Development Bank Building
3rd Floor
Plot 4 Nile Avenue
P.O. Box 7110
Kampala
Uganda
Phone: 256-41-256251/ 2; Fax: 256-41-342007
Email: lnyariki@iucea.org/ ifp@iucea.org; Web: http://www.iucea.org/scholarships/news.html
- The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the United Nations University (UNU), Japan, is offering the following fellowships:
Contact:
JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme/ Ph.D. Fellowship Programme
United Nations University/ Institute of Advanced Studies
5-53-67 Jingumae
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-8304
Japan
Fax: 81-3-5467-2324
Email: fellowships@ias.unu.edu
- Organizations: United Nations University (UNU) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), both in Japan
Title: JSPS/ UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: November 1, 2003
Deadline: May 15, 2003
Web: http://www.ias.unu.edu/fellowships/jspspostdoc.cfm
- Organization: Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the United Nations University (UNU), Japan
Title: UNU/ IAS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 1, 2003
Deadline: May 15, 2003
Web: http://www.ias.unu.edu/fellowships/postdoc.cfm
- Organization: Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the United Nations University (UNU), Japan
Title: UNU/ IAS PhD Fellowship Programme
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 1, 2003
Deadline: May 15, 2003
Web: http://www.ias.unu.edu/fellowships/phdfellow.cfm
- Organizations: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Institute of International Education (IIE), both in the United States
Title: Investing in Women in Development (IWID) Fellows Program
Date: April 25, 2003
Contact:
Kelly Feltault
Senior Program Officer
Investing in Women in Development Fellows Program
Institute of International Education
1400 K Street, NW
Suite 650
Washington, D.C. 20005-2403
United States
Phone: 1-800-262-0641/ 1-202-326-7682/ 7855
Email: iwid@iie.org
- Organization: Schumacher College, United Kingdom
Title: Ford Foundation Scholarships at Schumacher College
Contact:
Schumacher College
The Old Postern
Dartington
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 6EA
United Kingdom
Phone: 44-0-1803-865934; Fax: 44-0-1803-866899
Email: admin@schumachercollege.org.uk; Web: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk
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