ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Poverty Research: Poverty Analysis Toolkit
The World Bank's Poverty Research Program is developing a toolkit containing various methods of dynamic poverty analysis. The toolkit includes programs that perform growth-inequality and sectoral decompositions of poverty and produce growth incidence curves and stochastic dominance analysis graphs. For more information, visit http://www.econ.worldbank.org/programs/poverty/topic/33468/ or email research@worldbank.org.
- Global Challenge Survey
The National Academies, a United States-based scientific advisory organization, is conducting a survey in the developing world on global challenges and agricultural biotechnology's role in meeting these challenges. For information on the survey, email Michael Kisielewski at mkisiele@nas.edu.
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INSTITUTION PROFILE
- Action Centre for Rural Community Development (ACERCD)
ACERCD, Cameroon, is a rural-based non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1999. ACERCD aims to alleviate poverty, eradicate hunger, guarantee food security for the poor, and ensure a safe world for future generations. Its specific objectives are to improve the living conditions of the rural poor, especially women and youth; promote and develop agriculture, livestock, and trade in rural areas; enable access to national and international markets; establish and promote rural microfinance; and carry out environmental protection, management, and awareness programs. For more information, email Tazoacha Francis, executive director, at acercd98@yahoo.com.
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NETWORK PROFILE
- Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP)
ISAP is a network of over 10,000 professionals from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries and is a non-governmental organization. It facilitates the creation of agribusiness clinics and enables the sustainable delivery of products and services to the farming community by creating a national and international network of civil society professionals involved in agriculture and rural development. For more information, visit http://www.isapindia.org.
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COURSES/WORKSHOPS
Africa
- Organization: African Centre For Disaster Studies, South Africa
Title: Disaster Risk Management in Practice
Location: Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Date: May 17-21, 2004/ June 21-25, 2004/ July 19-23, 2004/ August 16-20, 2004 (the course is presented in four x 5 day (30 hour) block periods)
Fees: R15, 960
Contact:
African Centre For Disaster Studies
School for Social and Government Studies
North-West University
Private Bag X6001
Potchefstroom, 2520
Phone: 27-0-18-299-1620; Fax: 27-0-18-293-5266
Email: sosjrc@puk.ac.za; Web: http://acds.co.za/
Asia
- Organization: South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Nepal
Title: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Location: Sri Lanka
Date: June 17-July 8, 2004
Contact:
Kavita T. Shrestha
Program Assistant
South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
P.O. Box 8975; EPC 1056
Kathmandu
Nepal
Phone: 977-1-552-8761/ 781; Fax: 977-1-553-6786
Email: kavitas@sandeeonline.org
Web: http://www.sandeeonline.org/teaching_workshops/ee_srilanka.jsp
- The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), Philippines, is offering the following courses:
Contact:
Monette Pacia
Regional Center for Asia
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Y.C. James Yen Center
Km 39 Aguinaldo Highway
Silang
Cavite 4118
Philippines
Phone: 63-46-414-2417; Fax: 63-46-414-2420
Email: Monette.Pacia@iirr.org/ Education&Training@iirr.org/ Marise.Espineli@iirr.org/ Cathy.Manlapig@iirr.org
- Title: Participatory Innovation Development: A Training of Facilitators' Course
Location: Cavite, Philippines
Date: June 14-25, 2004
Fees: US $1,300
- Title: Designing Development Training Systematically
Location: Cavite, Philippines
Date: August 2-13, 2004
Fees: US $2,000
Europe
- The IMA International Ltd, United Kingdom, is offering the following courses:
Contact:
Donna Kelly
Course Administrator
IMA International Ltd
Randolphs Farm
Brighton Road
Hurstpierpoint
West Sussex
BN6 9EL
United Kingdom
Phone: 44-0-1273-833-030; Fax: 44-0-1273-833-230
Email: post@imainternational.com / Faye@imainternational.com
- Organization: The Statistical Services Centre at the University of Reading, United Kingdom
Title: Dealing with Data from Participatory Studies: Bridging the Gap between Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Location: University of Reading, United Kingdom
Date: July 26-August 13, 2004
Contact:
Carlos Barahona
Senior Statistician
Statistical Services Centre
P.O. Box 240
Reading RG6 6FN
United Kingdom
Phone: 44-0-118-378-8026
Fax: 44-0-118-975 -3169
Email: c.e.barahona@reading.ac.uk; Web: http://www.ssc.rdg.ac.uk/workshops/partdata.html
North America
- Organization: Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University, United States
Title: Basic General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS)
Location: Washington D.C., United States
Date: May 17-20, 2004
Fees: US $ 1,100 (if payment received 14 days prior to start of class); US $ 700 (university student, if payment received 14 days prior to start of class); US $ 1,200 (if paid later than 14 days prior to start of class); and US $ 900 (university student, if paid later than 14 days prior to start of class)
Contact:
Bruce A. McCarl
Regents Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas A&M University
College Station
Texas 77843-2124
United States
Phone: 1-979-845-1706; Fax: 1-979-862-8679
Email: mccarl@tamu.edu/ bruceamccarl@cox-internet.com/ courses@gams.com
Web: http://www.gams.com/mccarl/basic.htm
- The Coady International Institute, Canada, is offering the following courses:
Contact:
The Registrar
Coady International Institute
St. Francis Xavier University
P.O. Box 5000
Antigonish
Nova Scotia
Canada
B2G 2W5
Phone: 1-902-867-3953; Fax: 1-902-867-3907
Email: coadyreg@stfx.ca/ mtoogood@stfx.ca
- Organizations: The World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department (OED), United States and Faculty of Public Affairs and Management at Carleton University, Canada
Title: Fourth International Program for Development Evaluation Training: Building Skills to Evaluate Development Interventions
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Date: June 14-July 9, 2004
Deadline: May 23, 2004
Contact:
Karen Ginsberg
Carleton Program Manager
Faculty of Public Affairs and Management
Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs
D199 Loeb Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa
Ontario K1S 5B6
Canada
Phone: 1-613-520-3525; Fax: 1-613-520-7815
E-Mail: ipdet@carleton.ca; Web: http://www.carleton.ca/ipdet/
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CONFERENCES
Africa
- Organizations: Gender and Forestry Working Group of International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), Austria and Environmental, Human Rights Care, and Gender Organization (ENVIROCARE), Tanzania
Title: 2nd Worldwide Symposium on Gender and Forestry
Location: Arusha, Tanzania
Date: August 1-10, 2004
For more information, email Ruth Meena at envirocare_2002@yahoo.com.
Asia
- Organizations: Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China and World Food Prize Foundation (WFPF), United States
Title: International Symposium on Science & Technology in Agriculture: Current and Future
Location: Beijing, China
Date: July 10-12, 2004
For more information, visit http://www.worldfoodprize.org/chinaconference.htm.
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Organization: International Society for Horticultural Science, Australia
Title: Improving the Performance of Supply Chains in the Transitional Economies
Location: Lotus Pang Suan Kaew Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Date: July 10-15, 2005
Fees: AUD 975 (ISHS members) and AUD 1,065 (non ISHS members)
Deadline: September 30, 2004 (abstracts)
For more information, visit http://www.muresk.curtin.edu.au/ishscm/ or email Peter J. Batt at p.batt@curtin.edu.au.
Europe
- Organization: International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR), Italy
Title: Agricultural Biotechnology: International Trade and Domestic Production
Location: Ravello, Italy
Date: July 8-11, 2004
For more information, visit http://www.economia.uniroma2.it/conferenze/icabr2004/Default.asp or email icabr@economia.uniroma2.it.
- Organization: Phytowelt GmbH, Germany
Title: Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference (ABIC) on AgBiotech Goes Europe
Location: Cologne, Germany
Date: September 12-15, 2004
For more information, visit http://www.phytowelt.de/english/index.html or email ltarinmartin@genius-biotech.de.
- Organization: World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER), Finland
Title: The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Deadline: May 15, 2004 (paper) and October 29-30, 2004 (registration)
For more information, email at impact@wider.unu.edu.
Latin America
- Organization: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Switzerland
Title: Enhancing the Coherence Between National Development Strategies and Global Economic Processes Towards Economic Growth and Development, Particularly of Developing Countries
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Date: June 13-18, 2004
For more information, visit http://www.unctadxi.org/templates/Startpage____103.aspx.
- Organization: Red de Cooperación Técnica en Biotecnología Vegetal (REDBIO), Chile
Title: V Latin America and the Caribbean Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnology
Location: Boca Chica, Dominican Republic
Date: June 21-25, 2004
Deadline: May 21, 2004 (registration)
For more information, visit http://www.redbio.org/rdominicana/redbio2004rd/welcomeI.htm or email redbio2004@redbio.org.
North America
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FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS / COMPETITIONS
- Organization: Asia Rice Foundation, United States
Title: Grants for Rice in Asia
Eligibility: Applicants must be students below the age of 30, registered at an accredited institution of higher education in Asia or the United States. Applications that involve travel and study by US-based students at an Asian location or by Asian-based students at a US location are encouraged.
Deadline: June 1, 2004
Contact:
Robert W. Herdt
International Professor Applied Economics and Management (Adjunct)
Cornell University
31 Warren Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
United States
Phone: 1-607-255-8802
Email: students in Asia must email to asiarice@laguna.net and students in United States must email to wrc2@cornell.edu
Web: http://www.asiariceusa.org/Contact_Us.html
- Organization: Eastern and Central African Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA), Uganda
Title: Integrating the Gender Factor in Agricultural Research
Eligibility: The applicants should address gender analysis of institutions or how various institutions are responsible for production and reproduction of gender research tools, engendering research tools, and gender-sensitive measurements
Deadline: May 31, 2004
Contact:
The Programme Coordinator
ECAPAPA
Plot 13
John Babiiha Road
P.O Box 765
Entebbe
Uganda
Phone: 256-41-321780/321751; Fax: 256-41-321777
Email: ecapapa@imul.com
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