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ANNOUNCEMENTS

  1. Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization
    Authors C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Philip G. Pardey, and Mark W. Rosegrant assert that ending severe deprivation is critical to global peace and stability and that hunger can be banished in our lifetime. For more information, visit http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/jhu/endinghunger.htm.

  2. Fighting Famine in Southern Africa
    IFPRI Issue Brief No. 8 is now available in Japanese. For more information, visit http://www.ifpri.org/japanese/pubs/ib/ib8jp.pdf.

  3. DAD: Software for Distributive Analysis
    This software is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparison of social welfare, inequality, poverty, and equity. Its features include estimations of many indices and curves useful for distributive comparisons. Special features provide asymptotic standard errors to enable statistical inference, basic descriptive statistics, and simple non-parametric estimations of density functions and regressions. For more information, visit http://132.203.59.36:83/.

  4. Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Opening, and Agrifood Development
    This symposium, initially scheduled for September 5-7, 2003, in Bucharest has been postponed until Spring 2004. It is being organized by the International Association of Agrifood Economics (AIEA2), France; Romanian Association for Rural and Agrifood Economics (ARERA), Romania; Scientific Association for Rural Development "Virgil Madgearu" (SARDVM), Romania; University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Surgery (USAMV), Romania; and the Institute for Agricultural Economics (IEA), Romania. For more information, email Jean-Louis Rastoin at rastoin@ensam.inra.fr.

  5. Poverty Mapping website
    A joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), this web site presents data from a network of institutions dedicated to analyzing and mapping the spatial distribution of poverty; produces and promotes the use of poverty maps and shows linkages among poverty, food insecurity, the environment, and development; and promotes the use of poverty maps in to make policy and target assistance. For more information, visit http://www.povertymap.net/.

  6. Agricultural Biotechnology, Poverty Reduction, and Food Security
    Published by The Asian Development Bank (ADB), this book provides information on the effective and safe use of agricultural biotechnology; examines the opportunities and risks of using biotechnology to reduce poverty and achieve food security in Asia; and examines relevant policies and strategies for ADB; and analyzes the task of managing biotechnology for the benefit of small farmers in Asia. To download the book, visit http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Agri_Biotech/default.asp.

  7. New Handbook on Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property
    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has created this handbook, which attempts to make intellectual property issues and protection options more understandable and available for traditional knowledge holders, human rights NGOs, and legal professionals. Its goal is to help local communities understand and identify potential protection mechanisms already present in current intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes and the public domain for traditional knowledge. For free download of an electronic version of the handbook, visit http://shr.aaas.org/tek/handbook/ or email Stephen Hansen at shansen@aaas.org or Justin W. VanFleet at jvanflee@aaas.org.

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INSTITUTION PROFILE

    Special Programme for Food Security
    The Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) is an FAO initiative unanimously approved by the 106th Session of the FAO Council in June 1994. The objective of the SPFS is to help low-income food deficit countries (LIFDCs) to improve food security both at national and at household levels through rapid increases in food production and productivity by reducing year-to-year variability in production on an economically and environmentally sustainable basis, and by improving people's access to food. For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/spfs/.

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NETWORK PROFILE

    Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
    The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) was established in Kampala, Uganda, in November 1993. This is a non-political organization of the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) of 10 countries: Burundi, D. R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. ASARECA's mission is to increase the efficiency of agricultural research in the region so as to facilitate economic growth, food security, and export competitiveness through productive and sustainable agriculture. For more information, visit http://www.asareca.org.

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COURSES/WORKSHOPS

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CONFERENCES

  • Organization: 2020 Vision Initiative of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), United States
    Title: Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020
    Location: Kampala, Uganda
    Date: April 1-3, 2004 
    For more information, visit http://www.ifpri.org/2020AfricaConference/index.htm or email Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head, 2020 Vision Initiative at r.pandya-lorch@cgiar.org.

  • Organization: Department of International Economic Relations at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
    Title: International Conference on World Agriculture in Globalized Economy
    Location: Lviv, Ukraine
    Date: September 25-28, 2003
    For more information, visit http://www.franko.lviv.ua/faculty/intrel/conference/World%20Agriculture%20in%20Globalized%20Economy.htm or email at ihor_hrabynskyi@franko.lviv.ua.

  • Organization: International Public-Private Partnership Study Group (IPPPS) at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
    Title: 10th International Conference on "Public and Private Sector Partnerships: Axis of Progress"
    Location: Algarve, Portugal
    Date: April 4-7, 2004
    Deadline: January 15, 2004 (paper), March 31, 2004 (speakers registration), and May 31, 2004 (registration for conference attendees and delegates)
    For more information, visit http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/sbf/events/conferences/ippps/10call.htm or email Luiz Montanheiro at L.C.Montanheiro@shu.ac.uk or Doutor Efigenio da Luz Rebelo at elrebelo@ualg.pt.

  • Organization: Arab Planning Institute-Kuwait, Kuwait
    Title: International Conference on Institutions and Development Performance
    Location: Beirut, Lebanon
    Date: June 8-10, 2004
    Deadline: October 31, 2003 (paper)
    For more information, visit http://www.arab-api.org/call_pr1_e.htm or email at api@api.org.kw.

  • Organizations: Texas A&M University System Agriculture Program and the City of Houston, both in United States
    Title: International Conference on Agriculture Science and Technology (ICAST)
    Location: Houston, Texas, United States
    Date: October 12-15, 2003
    Deadline: September 15, 2003 (Paper) and October 1, 2003 (registration)
    For more information, visit http://www.2003icast.org/.

  • Organization: University of Balearic Islands, Spain
    Title: 3rd Mediterranean Seminar on International Development: Trade and Development
    Location: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
    Date: September 25-26, 2003
    Fees: € 45 (Students and academic staff) and € 68 (Others)
    Deadline: September 18, 2003
    For more information, visit http://www.uib.es/depart/deaweb/smed/semact_eng.htm or email José Luís Groizard Cardosa at joseluis.groizard@uib.es or Javier Lozano Ibáñez javier.lozano@uib.es.

  • Organizations: Swiss Coordination Committee for Biotechnology of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Convention Center Basel, both in Switzerland
    Title: 11th European Congress on Biotechnology
    Location: Basel, Switzerland
    Date: August 24-29, 2003
    For more information, visit http://www.ecb11.ch/.

  • Organizations: Senegalese geographic information system (GIS) community, led by the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) and the Government of Senegal, both in Senegal
    Title: Africa Geographic Information System (GIS) 2003 Conference
    Location: Dakar, Senegal
    Date: November 4-7, 2003
    Fees: US $125 (June 1-September 30, 2003) and US $150 (Walk-in)
    For more information, visit http://www.eis-africa.org/events_africaGIS.htm or email at eisafrica@csir.co.za/ egavin@csir.co.za.

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FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS / COMPETITIONS

  • Organization: The International Foundation for Science (IFS), Sweden, and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Senegal
    Title: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
    Eligibility: Applicants must be citizens of a Sub-Saharan African country; 45 years of age or younger; MA degree or the equivalent. Preference is given to researchers whose grant will be administered by a national research institute, university, research center, or NGO in Africa. Researchers with temporary positions at international research institutes who also have an affiliation with a national research institute are eligible to apply.
    Deadline: September 15, 2003
    Contact:
    International Foundation for Science
    Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
    Grev Turegatan 19
    SE-114 38 Stockholm
    Sweden
    Phone: 46-8-545-818-00; Fax: 46-8-545-818-01
    Email: sustainable@ifs.se
    Web: http://www.ifs.se/Special_Programmes/SustainableAgriculture.htm

  • Organization: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France
    Title: OECD Fellowship 2004 on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
    Deadline: September 30, 2003
    Contact:
    OECD Secretariat
    Co-operative Research Programme (Biological Resource Management)
    Directorate for Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries
    Ingres 122
    2, rue André Pascal
    75775 Paris Cedex 16
    France
    Phone: +33-1-45-24-82-00; Fax: +33-1-44-30-61-22
    Email: AGR.Prog@oecd.org/ Caroline.Keogh@oecd.org
    Web: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/46/2956101.doc

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