1. Food and Agriculture Organization's Information Management and Resource Kit (IMARK)
   The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has created the Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK), a partnership-based e-learning initiative that will train individuals in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK supports agencies, institutions, and networks worldwide, allowing them to work together and share information effectively within a virtual community of practice. For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/gil/imark/index_en.htm.

2. Nutrition: A Foundation For Development
   Nutrition: A Foundation For Development is a compilation of briefs on the latest nutrition research findings as they relate to other development sectors. Developed by the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition, IFPRI, and other partners, the briefs are designed to facilitate dialogue between nutritionists and other development professionals. For more information, visit http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/foundation4dev/foundation4dev.htm.

3. The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2003-2004
   The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) provides in-depth analysis of key developments in food and agriculture at the world, regional, and national levels. This year's SOFA explores the potential of agricultural biotechnology - especially transgenic crops - to meet the needs of the poor, analyzes the socioeconomic impacts of technological changes in agriculture, and surveys the current evidence regarding the safety of transgenic crops for human health and the environment. For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/es/esa/en/pubs_sofa.htm.

4. Analysing Agriculture
   Analysing Agriculture is an information site providing current information on world trends in major agricultural commodities. Its publications provide in-depth background on and analyses of world agricultural markets. For more information, visit www.analysingagriculture.com.

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• Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
  The Syngenta Foundation aims to improve the livelihoods of poor rural communities in the world's semi-arid regions through sustainable agriculture by supporting well-targeted projects, identifying and promoting good policies, improving access to research and technology, making knowledge and information more available, and developing partnerships that increase impact and sustainability. Syngenta helps communities identify challenges; build communal efforts and indigenous knowledge; increase production and productivity of farming and land-use systems; improve access to knowledge and technologies that are safe, reliable, and affordable; implement locally appropriate solutions; and assess impacts. It has infocenters in Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. For more information, visit http://www.syngentafoundation.org/.

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• Coady International Institute
  The Coady International Institute, Canada, established in 1959, aims to improve the capacity of civil society to carry out sustainable, equitable, community-based development focused on poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods. More than 4,000 leaders from over 120 countries have taken part in Coady's results-based certificate, diploma, and master's programs. The programs are shaped by collaborative action-learning partnerships with groups in the global South, identifying best practices in community-driven, asset-based development; community-based microfinance; conflict transformation and peace building; and advocacy and networking. For more information, visit http://www.stfx.ca/institutes/coady.

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Africa

• Organization: International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), United States
  Title: International Workshop on Agro-Input Regulatory Systems
  Location: Pretoria, South Africa
  Date: August 16-20, 2004
  Contact:
  International Fertilizer Development Center
  P.O. Box 2040
  Muscle Shoals
  Alabama 35662
  United States
  Phone: 1-256-381-6600; Fax: 1-256-381-7408
  Email: hrd@ifdc.org; Web: http://www.ifdc.org/Training/4%20Ag%20Input%20Regulatory.pdf

• Organization: The Education, Language, and Development Training Programmes (ELD), United Kingdom, is offering the following courses:
  Contact:
  Neil Kendrick
  Director
  Email:eld@wlink.com.np/ or thailand@eld.org.uk
  
  
  • Title: Presentation Skills/ Public Speaking
    Location: RECOFT, Kasetsart University, Bang Kaen, Bangkok
    Date: June 22-24, 2004
    Fees: US $250
    Web: http://www.eld.org.uk/workshops/presentation.htm

  • Title: Reporting Skills / Professional Writing
    Location: RECOFT, Kasetsart University, Bang Kaen, Bangkok
    Date: July 27-30
    Fees: US $400
    Web: http://www.eld.org.uk/workshops/reporting.htm
    

  • Title: Project Proposal Writing
    Location: RECOFT, Kasetsart University, Bang Kaen, Bangkok
    Date: August 2-6
    Fees: US $450
    Web: http://www.eld.org.uk/workshops/proposals.htm
    

• Organization: University of Surabaya, Indonesia
  Title: 3rd International Workshop on Enhancing Training Quality through Customer Service (QCS-3): Caring for Clients Before, During, and After Training
  Location: Bali, Indonesia
  Date: August 25-31, 2004
  Fees: US $1,350
  Deadline: August 1, 2004 (application)
  Contact:
  Ms. Agnes Andriani ONG
  Director
  Office of International Affairs
  University of Surabaya
  Raya Kalirungkut
  Surabaya 60293
  Indonesia
  Phone: 62-31-298-1302/ 1300; Fax: 62-31-298-1301
  Email: aong@ia.ubaya.ac.id/ or secgen@kult-educ.org
  Web: http://www.kult-educ.org/wksp/qcs%2D3/
  

• The Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Costa Rica, is offering the following courses:
  Contact:
  Área de Capacitación y Conferencias
  Sede Central
  CATIE 7170
  Turrialba
  Costa Rica
  Phone: 506-556-6021/ 558-2433; Fax: 506-556-0176
  Email: capacitacion@catie.ac.cr
  • Title: Curso Internacional sobre Metodologías y Estrategias de Extensión y Desarrollo Rural participativo
    Location: Turrialba, Costa Rica
    Date: August 2-14, 2004
    Deadline: July 2, 2004 (application)

  • Title: Curso Internacional sobre Manejo Integrado de Cuencas Hidrográficas en el siglo XXI
    Location: Turrialba, Costa Rica
    Date: August 23-27, 2004
    Deadline: July 30, 2004 (application)
    

• The EcoMod Summer School at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, is offering the following courses:
  Contact:
  Frederic Dramais
  EcoMod Network
  Department of Applied Economics
  Free University of Brussels
  Avenue F. Roosevelt
  50 C.P. 140
  BE-1050 Brussels
  Belgium
  Phone: 32-2-650-4131; Fax: 617-718-9768/ 32-2-650-4137
  Email: Frederic.Dramais@ecomod.net
  

• Title: Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) and MPSGE
  Location: Brussels, Belgium
  Date: July 12-17, 2004
  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 12-17, 2004
  Fees: US $2,760
  Web: http://www.ecomod.net/courses/macro_eviews/macro_eviews.htm
  

• Title: Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
  Location: Brussels, Belgium
  Date: July 19-24, 2003
  Fees: US $2,760
  Web: http://www.ecomod.net/courses/cge_olg/olg_course.htm
  

• Organizations: Institute of Social Studies, Vrije Universiteit, and Wageningen University, all are in the The Netherlands
  Title: M.Sc. Program in Development Economics (MDE)
  Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
  Date: September 2004
  Deadline: June 15, 2004 (application)
  Fees: € 10,000
  Contact:
  Johan Brons
  Programme coordinator
  Wageningen University
  Hollandseweg 1
  6706 KN Wageningen
  Phone: 31-317-484360; Fax: 31-317-484037
  Email: mscdevecon.dec@wur.nl/ or ohan.Brons@wur.nl; Web:http://www.mscdevecon.nl/

• Organizations: International Agricultural Centre (IAC) and Dutch Water Management Agency's (RIZA) Wetland Advisory and Training Centre (WATC), both are in the The Netherlands
  Title: International Training of Trainers on Wetland Management (ICWM-TOT)
  Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
  Date: September 27-October 8, 2004
  Deadline: August 16, 2004 (application)
  Fees: € 2,100
  Contact:
  Esther Koopmanschap
  River Basin Management
  International Agricultural Centre (IAC)
  Department of Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (DBN)
  WUR building 425
  P.O. Box 88 (Lawickse Allee 11)
  6700 AB Wageningen
  The Netherlands
  Phone: 31-0-317-49-52-51; Fax: 31-0-317-49-53-95
  Email: Esther.Koopmanschap@wur.nl; Web: http://www.iac.wur.nl/iac/courses/module.cfm?code=88/05

• Organization: Laval University, Canada
  Title: Sustainable Development and Globalization of Agri-Food Markets
  Location: Québec, Canada
  Date: August 23-24 2004
  Contact:
  Pr Jean-Louis Rastoin
  Directeur UMR Moisa, Président
  AIEA2
  ENSA.M, Département Sciences Économiques
  Sociales et de Gestion 2, place Pierre Viala
  F- 34060 Montpellier Cedex 1
  Phone: 33-0-4-99-61-25-89/ 25-51; Fax: 33-0-4-67-63-54-09
  Email: rastoin@ensam.inra.fr

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Asia

• Organization: International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN)
  Title: 3rd IAEN pre-conference meeting for the XV International AIDS Conference
  Location: Bangkok, Thailand
  Date: July 9-10, 2004
  For more information, email e.smith@tfgi.com.

• Organization: International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA)
  Title: XI World Congress of Rural Sociology: Globalization, Risks, and Resistance
  Location: Trondheim, Norway
  Date: July 25-30, 2004
  For more information, visit http://www.irsa-world.org/index.html.
• Organization: Agra Informa Ltd, United Kingdom
  Title: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Food Industry: Measuring, Managing, and Reporting Responsible Business Practice
  Location: Radisson SAS, London
  Date: September 21-22, 2004
  For more information, visit http://www.eldis.org/fulltext/CSR_FoodIndustry.pdf

• Organizations: Instituto Tecnológico de Durango (ITD), Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (UAdeC), Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro (UAAAN), Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and Sociedad Mexicana de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería, all are in the Mexico
  Title: Food Science and Food Biotechnology in Developing Countries
  Location: Durango, Mexico
  Date: June 20-23, 2004
  For more information, visit http://www.itdposgrado-bioquimica.com.mx/congress2004.htm or email meeting@itdposgrado-bioquimica.com.mx

• Organizations: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), United States; World Agroforestry Center, Kenya; Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) at the University of Missouri, United States; Center for Subtropical Agroforestry at the University of Florida, United States; Centre for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri, United States; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) at the University of Florida, United States; and University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), United States
  Title: 1st World Congress on Agroforestry: Working Together for Sustainable Land-Use Systems
  Location: Orlando, Florida, United States
  Date: June 27-July 2, 2004
  For more information, visit http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/WCA/ or email P.K. Nair at pknair@ufl.edu

• Organizations: Precision Agriculture Center, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, all are at the University of Minnesota, United States
  Title: 7th International Conference on Precision Agriculture and Other Precision Resources Management
  Date: July 25-28, 2004
  Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  For more information, visit www.precision.agri.umn.edu/Conference/ or email at contactus@cce.umn.edu/ or paconf@soils.umn.edu.

• Organization: The School of Leadership and Development at the Eastern University, United States
  Title: Microenterprise and The Environment
  Location: St. Davids, Pennsylvania, United States
  Date: July 26-July 30, 2004
  For more information, visit http://www.eastern.edu/academic/international/sild/mfi/Welcome!.html or email hsommerv@eastern.edu/ or sldmfi@eastern.edu

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• Organization: Centre Training and Awards Program at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
  Title: The Bentley Fellowship
  Eligibility: Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of Canada or citizens of a developing country who are either registered in a Canadian university or a recognized university in a developing country in agriculture, forestry or biology for an M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree; or recent recipients of a Ph.D. degree in agriculture, forestry or biology wishing to do post-doctoral applied research in a developing country; or qualified applied researchers with a degree in agriculture, forestry or biology working outside of universities, in agricultural extension, education, or production.
  Deadline: October 1, 2004 (application)
  Contact:
  The Bentley Fellowship
  Centre Training and Awards Program
  International Development Research Centre
  P.O. Box 8500
  Ottawa
  Ontario K1G 3H9
  Phone: 613-236-6163 ext 2098; Fax: 613-563-0815
  Email: cta@idrc.ca; Web: http://www.idrc.ca/awards

• Organizations: Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States
  Title: Norman E. Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellows Program
  Contact:
  FAS International Cooperation and Development
  Washington, DC
  United States
  Phone: 1-202-690-0775
  Email: info@fas.usda.gov; Web: http://www.fas.usda.gov/info/borlaug/NormanEBorlaug.pdf