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<title>EGFAR Open Site RSS Feed</title>
<description>Articles from the EGFAR Collaborative Website</description>
<link>http://www.egfar.org</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
<webMaster>EGFAR-webmaster@fao.org</webMaster>	
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<title>EGFAR website - Open Site</title>
<link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite</link>
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     <title>ICRISAT Genebank- Conserving Biodiversity for Food Security</title>
     <description>The Rajendra S. Paroda Genebank at ICRISAT, Patancheru, 
India serves as a world repository for the ex situ collections of 
five mandate crops: sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea 
and groundnut and six small millets </description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2623</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:46:57 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>CIAT - Program Officer</title>
     <description>CIAT is seeking an energetic professional to serve as liaison between the Director General&#039;s office and the Center&#039;s research areas.  Deadline: 15 July, 2009
</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2611</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:52:16 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>AWARD Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator</title>
     <description>AWARD seeks to appoint an experienced Monitoring and Evaluation (M&amp;E) Coordinator, to work with our fellows, mentors, and partners to track project progress, outcomes and impacts at individual and institutional levels. Given the specific nature of AWARD, we are looking for someone with knowledge of African agricultural science systems, and an interest in the professional development of women. Deadline: 1 July, 2009</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2598</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 16:38:42 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>AWARD Communications Manager</title>
     <description>AWARD is looking for a Communications Manager who will bring in-depth experience in the use of electronic and print media for the effective delivery of project outputs. Deadline: 1 July, 2009</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2596</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:51:43 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2596</guid>
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     <title>The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL): new subscription prices</title>
     <description>The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL), which has over ten years experience providing developing world countries with access to critical scientific and scholarly information, is very pleased to announce a new, low worldwide price for 1993-2009 LanTEEAL 2.0.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2593</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 15:09:33 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2593</guid>
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     <title>Research Fellow in Agriculture, Science and Policy at IDS</title>
     <description>The Knowledge, Technology and Society (KNOTS) Team of IDS is seeking to appoint up to two new Research Fellows as part of an expanding programme of research on African agriculture and development. Deadline: 5 June 2009.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2582</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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     <title>IAMO Forum 2009: 20 Years of Transition in Agriculture: What Has Been achieved? Where Are We Heading?</title>
     <description>2009-06-17 - 2009-06-19, Halle (Saale), DEU</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2574</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 10:26:40 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2574</guid>
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     <title>OECD - Head, Enterprise Business Systems</title>
     <description>Based in Paris, France, OECD offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced IT professional to manage an innovative team providing business solutions to meet the Organisations needs in our dynamic, multicultural environment based in Paris. Deadline: 20 May 2009</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2570</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:50:06 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2570</guid>
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     <title>IFAD - Special Advisor to the President</title>
     <description>Based in Rome, Italy, the Special Adviser plays a significant role in assisting the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in the execution of his mandate at the forefront of an organization dedicated to helping the small farm holders in rural areas in developing countries. </description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2592</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2592</guid>
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     <title>IFAD - Director, Office of the President</title>
     <description>Based in Rome, Italy, this new position will provide strategic leadership and management contributing to the promotion of IFAD?s image and the enhancement of its international reputation and adhering to IFAD?s mission and values.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2591</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2591</guid>
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     <title>OECD - Wiki Platform Developer</title>
     <description>The OECD is looking for a Wiki Platform Developer to work in the STATISTICS DIRECTORATE (STD) in collaboration with the team responsible for the OECD-hosted Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2590</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2590</guid>
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     <item>
     <title>OECD - Regulatory Reform Analyst</title>
     <description>Based in Mexico City, Mexico, the OECD is looking for one or more Analysts with experience in regulatory policy analysis, administrative simplification strategies and review of legislation. They will contribute to the development of strategies aimed at cuttingred tape, all directed toward greater productivity and competitiveness in Mexico from an international perspective.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2589</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2589</guid>
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     <item>
     <title>OECD - Policy Analyst on Aid Effectiveness (Transparent and Responsible Aid)</title>
     <description>Based in Paris, France, the Policy Analyst on Aid Effectiveness will support the work conducted under the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, an international partnership of bilateral donors, multilateral organisations and developing countries hosted by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Its current mandate is to facilitate, support and monitor implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008).</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2588</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2588</guid>
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     <item>
     <title>Joined Conference of EUROGI, INSPIRE, PROGIS, CAGI</title>
     <description>2009-05-12 - 2009-05-13, Prague, CZE</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2575</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2575</guid>
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     <title>CABI Global Summit - Food Security in a climate of change</title>
     <description>2009-10-19 - 2009-10-21, London, GBR</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2566</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:19:31 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2566</guid>
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     <title>African Fellows Programme: 9th Call for Pre-Proposals</title>
     <description>The Rothamsted International African Fellows Programme is now inviting
pre-proposals under its 9th Call. The deadline for receipt of pre-proposals under the current call is 19 June 2009. For this call, Fellowships will be for a maximum period of 6 months.
</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2532</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:50:40 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2532</guid>
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     <title>Funding opportunities</title>
     <description>Funding programs, grants opportunities, sponsorships</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2526</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:03:10 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2526</guid>
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     <item>
     <title>Fellowships / training</title>
     <description>Fellowships and training opportunities</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2525</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:57:57 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2525</guid>
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     <item>
     <title>Course: Facilitating multi-stkeholder processes and social learning</title>
     <description>2009-06-22 - 2009-06-26, Wageningen, NLD</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2524</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:09:51 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2524</guid>
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     <title>Course: Climate change adaptation in agriculture and natrual resources management</title>
     <description>2009-06-15 - 2009-06-26, Addis Ababa, ETH</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2522</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:05:29 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2522</guid>
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     <title>International Seminar on &#039;G&#039;localization of Food Trade</title>
     <description>2009-04-17 - 2009-04-17, Brussels, BEL</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2521</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:03:18 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2521</guid>
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     <title>African Journal of Biotechnology</title>
     <description>The AJB aims at providing the most rapid turn-around time possible for reviewing and publishing, and disseminates the articles freely for teaching and reference purposes</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2520</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:57:47 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2520</guid>
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     <title>Impact Assessment Officer Position at CIAT</title>
     <description>The Impact Assessment (IA) Officer coordinates and advances the generation of
science-based evidence of ex-ante and ex-post research outcomes and impacts. Deadline for applications: screening of CVs will continue until the position is filled.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2519</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:53:18 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2519</guid>
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     <title>Concept Notes for the East Horn of Africa CoP of the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP)</title>
     <description>Deadline extended to April 23rd 2009</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2518</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:46:49 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2518</guid>
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     <title>Summary Report of the Consultation Workshop on Identifying Supplementary Indicators, Entebbe 2009</title>
     <description>Report of the ASTI consultation held on 20-21 January 2009 in Entebbe, Uganda</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2516</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:28:43 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2516</guid>
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     <title>1st All Africa Horticulture Congress &#034;Grown under the sun&#034;</title>
     <description>2009-08-31 - 2009-09-03, Nairobi, KEN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2515</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:20:42 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2515</guid>
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     <title>Multimedia web based publication on Food Sovereignty - from IIED</title>
     <description>GFAR stakeholders may be interested in the latest chapter of a multimedia book on food sovereignty which is now available on line. This latest chapter focuses on the role of local organisations in sustaining food systems, livelihoods and environment.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2513</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:29:18 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2513</guid>
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     <title>TERI program 2009-2010: three-week course on &#039;Application of Bio-technology and its regulation&#039;</title>
     <description>2009-08-04 - 2009-08-21, Delhi and TERI regional centers in India, IND</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2517</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2517</guid>
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     <title>Future Agricultures International Conference &#034;Seasonality Revisited&#034;: call for papers</title>
     <description>Call for papers for the conference, focused on the following areas: 
seasonal Inter-linkages, seasonal Blind-spots, seasonal Trends, methodologies, policies and projects, social protection responses.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2514</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2514</guid>
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     <title>New Policy Briefs on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from the DFID RIU Programme</title>
     <description>A series of policy briefs on new options for agriculture, fisheries, and forestry are available here from the RIU Programme.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2505</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:43:46 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2505</guid>
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     <title>CIAT vacancy: Resource Mobilization Officer</title>
     <description>The position will be based at CIAT Headquarters, Palmira, Colombia.
Deadline for applications: April 30th 2009.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2504</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:04:03 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2504</guid>
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     <title>UK Parliamentary Inquiry into the Global Food Crisis: Call for Evidence</title>
     <description>The Inquiry, which is now calling for evidence, will look at whether the UK is meeting its current commitments, moral or otherwise, for addressing issues of global food security and; how well equipped the UK is to play its part in generating long-term predictable and sustainable development for those affected in the developing world.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2503</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:58 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2503</guid>
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     <title>Vacancy - Advisor for inclusive business development</title>
     <description>The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT, The Netherlands) is looking for an advisor to identify and support pro-poor business ventures from early conception to business planning, investment and implementation, among other things. Deadline: 17 April 2009</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2502</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:53:31 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2502</guid>
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     <title>Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop  Science: Call for Papers</title>
     <description>The Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop  Science (JPBCS) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published monthly by Academic Journals (www.academicjournals.org/JPBCS dedicated to increasing the depth of Crop Science across disciplines with the ultimate aim of improving plant research. </description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2466</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:32:34 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2466</guid>
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     <title>Synthesis paper on &#039;Conservation tillage in East and Southern Africa: yields and rain water productivity from on-farm action reserach&#039;</title>
     <description>Paper by J. Rockstrom (Stockholm Environment Institute) et al.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2429</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:28:51 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2429</guid>
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     <title>UNICEF web site on Communication for Development</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2563</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2563</guid>
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     <title>AWARD 2009 Fellowship Announcement (Round Two)  Available to women agricultural scientists from:   Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia </title>
     <description>I am pleased to inform you that AWARD is now accepting applications for Round Two AWARD Fellowships!  The CGIAR Gender &amp; Diversity Program warmly invites applications from qualified African agricultural women scientists for this innovative and exciting fellowship program.  </description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2413</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:28:50 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2413</guid>
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     <title>Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment (JENE): call for papers</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2379</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2379</guid>
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     <title>IFAR&#039;s professional development program 2009</title>
     <description>IFARs Professional Development Program in 2009 will consist of the annual IFAR Small Grants Program, including the Ravi Tadvalkar Memorial Scholarship.  Deadline for proposals: 3 March 2009.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2562</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2562</guid>
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     <title>Useful book: the Preservation of Web Resources</title>
     <description>One of the goals of PoWR is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day responsibility for looking after web resources.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2373</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:43:20 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2373</guid>
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     <title>GlobalHort call for project concept notes</title>
     <description>GlobalHort is pleased to announce the call for project concept notes on horticultural global issues. Deadline for submission is 27th February 2009.
</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2371</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:27:21 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2371</guid>
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     <title>Inventory on innovative farmer advisory services or systems in Africa</title>
     <description>Entries include projects using ICT solutions or implementing ICT-based activities, institutions/groups providing services using ICTs as well as ICT solutions software providers, both at the national and regional level.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2560</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2560</guid>
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     <title>Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium: first call for contributions</title>
     <description>An international symposium on agricultural innovation systems in Asia and the Pacific, focusing particularly on southern and eastern Asia, will be held on 4-7 May 2009 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Deadline for submissions: 18th January 2009.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2372</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2372</guid>
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     <title>CGMap, a CGIAR system-wide application</title>
     <description>CGMap provides a &#034;map&#034;hat allows easy navigation through information on research and research-related activities that the CGIAR Centers and Challenge Programs publish in their Medium Term Plans (MTPs) every year.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2561</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2561</guid>
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     <title>Input Fairs</title>
     <description>One of the FAOs preferred responses to food emergencies is the Input Trade Fair. Farmers receive a voucher, which they can exchange for seeds and other inputs that they need for a better harvest. In 2007, for example, 20,000 government-selected families in central and eastern Swaziland received vouchers that they could spend at one of 25 Input Trade Fairs. Earlier this year, FAO described these fairs as winners. But as the 2008 planting season gets under way, the news from Mbabane is not good.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2173</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:44:16 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2173</guid>
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     <title>2nd World Congress of Agroforestry (WCA2): call for abstracts, deadline 30 November 2008</title>
     <description>2009-08-23 - 2009-08-28, Nairobi, KEN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2358</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2358</guid>
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     <title>APAARI - Vacancy: APARIS Coordinator [DEADLINE EXTENDED]</title>
     <description>APAARI is seeking a well-qualified and experienced person for the position of Coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Agricultural Research Information System (APARIS).
Deadline for applications extended to 31st January 2009.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2158</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:26:54 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2158</guid>
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     <title>3rd Call of the FP7 Theme - Food Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology</title>
     <description>The 3rd Call of the FP7 Theme - Food Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology has  been published. It contains a number of research topics which are directly related to Agricultural Research for Development and the MDGs, with a special emphasis on Africa. Deadline is January 15th 2009.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2157</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:17:41 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2157</guid>
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     <title>MEASURING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INVESTMENTS. A Revised Global Picture</title>
     <description>Nienke M. Beintema and Gert-Jan Stads</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2156</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2156</guid>
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     <title>Bio-fuel crops research for energy security and rural development in developing countries</title>
     <description>Reddy, B.S.V., S. Ramesh, A. Ashok Kumar, S.P. Wani, R. Ortiz, H. Ceballos &amp; T.K. Sreedevi.  2008.  Bio-fuel crops research for energy security and rural development in developing countries.  Bioenergy Research.  DOI 10.1007/s12155-008-9022-x</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2155</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2155</guid>
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     <title>Recent developments for the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research</title>
     <description>The Platform&amp;nbsp;for Agrobiodiversity Research seeks to improve the maintenance and use of  agrobiodiversity by synthesizing and sharing existing knowledge,  identifying areas where research is needed and stimulating the  development of new and innovative research partnerships to address  knowledge gaps.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2126</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:40 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2126</guid>
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     <title>ICRISAT Library has developed the web-enabled SAT e-library</title>
     <description>ICRISAT Library has developed the web-enabled SAT e-library that hosts and links to the digital library resources.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2125</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:32:03 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2125</guid>
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     <title>EC Call for proposals on Non-CGIAR Global ARD funded from the Food Security Thematic Programme consultation with SAG</title>
     <description>The EC is planning a call for proposals to cover research at a global level financed from within its Food Security Thematic Programme. This particular call is for non-CGIAR based research and the total amount available for 2009 is expected to be EUR 23 - 28 million. The overall theme for the programme will be &#034;Agricultural innovation for smallholders farmers in developing countries for food security, adaptation/mitigation to climate change and economic development&#034;.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2124</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2124</guid>
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     <title>4th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture</title>
     <description>2009-02-04 - 2009-02-07, Delhi, IND</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2123</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:17:40 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2123</guid>
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     <title>FARA RAILS consultation: inventory of farmer-based information systems using voice and audio</title>
     <description>FARA is currently working on an inventory of farmer based information systems which are based on voice and audio. This first consultation, conducted through DGroups, will be closed on 15/10/2008.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2130</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2130</guid>
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     <title>A new series of the GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM starting on 1st October</title>
     <description>there will be a new series of the GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM starting on 1st October, when the debate is on the World Food Crisis. With increasing economic problems at home, will anyone care about the poorest of the world?</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2127</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2127</guid>
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     <title>Latest issues of the Newsletter of the AVRDC, the World Vegetable Center</title>
     <description>Three September 2008 issues of the Newsletter of the AVRDC, the World Vegetable Center</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2129</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2129</guid>
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     <title>News from the CGIAR Generation Challenge Program (GCP)</title>
     <description>Summary of the 5 September issue of the GCP newsletter.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2131</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2131</guid>
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     <title>AARINENA launches a web discussion forum</title>
     <description>The AARINENA discussion forum has been launched and it is now available on the AARINENA website at the following URL:
http://www.aarinena.org/Forum/index.php</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2128</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2128</guid>
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     <title>Food and Nutrition Security Course, Wageningen International</title>
     <description>2009-03-30 - 2009-06-12, Wageningen, NLD</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2080</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:41:24 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2080</guid>
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     <title>World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT (IAALD AFITA WCCA 2008)</title>
     <description>2008-08-24 - 2008-08-27, Atsugi (Tokyo), JPN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2085</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2085</guid>
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     <title>KIT Bulletin 380 - Outsourcing agricultural advisory services</title>
     <description>This bulletin aims to contribute to interactive learning between practitioners and policymakers involved in outsourcing in sub-Saharan African countries.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2075</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2075</guid>
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     <title>£3.3 million boost for African science</title>
     <description>African science received a boost on 7 July 2008 with the announcement of a £3.3 million partnership between the Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Society to fund collaborations between scientists in Ghana, Tanzania and the UK.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2074</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2074</guid>
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     <title>Using AgriFeeds to share news and events information</title>
     <description>In this short article we would like to suggest some practical examples and scenarios that show how information systems and the Regional Forums in particular can benefit from AgriFeeds (www.agrifeeds.org). </description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2065</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:06:11 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2065</guid>
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     <title>FARA Secretariat looking for an ICT consultant</title>
     <description>The FARA Secretariat is seeking an ICT consultant for advice on their information and communication system.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2063</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2063</guid>
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     <title>International Symposium on Integrated Sustainable Livelihood Development in Mountain Forest areas</title>
     <description>2008-09-15 - 2008-09-18, Lin&#039;an city, Zhejiang province, CHN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2038</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:00:31 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2038</guid>
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     <title>Bio-fuels Research in the CGIAR: A Perspective from the Science Council</title>
     <description>A CGIAR Science Council Policy Statement on Biofuels Production</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2039</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2039</guid>
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     <title>DURAS Project Closing Seminar set on 11-13 June 2008</title>
     <description>After four years of implementation, the DURAS Project is wrapping up its activities. A project closing seminar is being organized under the auspices of GFAR on 11-13 June 2008 at the FAO Headquarters in Rome. </description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2031</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 13:17:39 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=2031</guid>
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     <title>DFID&#039;s Research Strategy for 2008-2013 launched</title>
     <description>The Department for International Development (DFID) of the UK Government launched its Research Strategy for 2008-2013 after extensive consultation with stakeholders in the UK, developing countries and internationally</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1998</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1998</guid>
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     <title>SIST: Scientific and technical information system</title>
     <description>A Content Management System extended with components that allow to query different types of information sources from one access point.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1997</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:28:20 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1997</guid>
     </item>

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     <title>Other CMSs: OpenCMS, Typo3...</title>
     <description>Besides Infoglue, the CMS that we use for EGFAR, and Drupal, which is very well known for its ease of use, here are some links to other good CMSs like OpenCMS and Typo3.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1996</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:37:59 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1996</guid>
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     <title>9th International Conference on Dryland Development</title>
     <description>2008-11-07 - 2008-11-10, Alexandria, EGY</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1982</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:44:11 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1982</guid>
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     <title>International Banana Conference 2008</title>
     <description>2008-10-05 - 2008-10-09, Mombasa, KEN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1981</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:37:38 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1981</guid>
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     <title>DURAS Documentation workshops held </title>
     <description>Two separate DURAS workshops were organized aimed at documenting and analyzing experience in building multi-stakeholder partnership in implementing DURAS-funded projects. </description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1975</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:02:08 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1975</guid>
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     <title>CGIAR GCP Fellowships 2008 - Deadline for applications extended</title>
     <description>Following last month&#039;s call for applications for the GCP 2008 Fellowship Programme, CGIAR is pleased to announce that the deadline has been extended to 29th February 2008 for six themes</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1972</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1972</guid>
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     <title>APAARI - Vacancy: Executive Assistant (Information and Communication Technology)</title>
     <description>The Asia-Pacific Association Of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) is seeking for a well-qualified and experienced person for the position of Manager, ICT.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1973</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1973</guid>
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     <title>Technical Assistance Specialist - West Africa Regional SPS Advisor</title>
     <description>Approximate Start Date: ASAP.
Location: Accra, Ghana.
Deadline: February 1st 2008.
</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1963</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:14:24 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1963</guid>
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     <title>1er Atelier International d&#039;Ecologie et Gestion des Communautés de Nématodes Phytoparasites dans les Ecosystèmes Sud-Méditerranéens</title>
     <description>2008-03-17 - 2008-03-19, Sousse, TUN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1959</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1959</guid>
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     <title>Position: Director of Finance &amp; Administration at ILRI</title>
     <description>Place: Nairobi, Kenya. Deadline: February 1st 2008.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1967</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1967</guid>
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     <title>IFAR&#039;s Professional Development Program 2008</title>
     <description>IFAR&#039;s Professional Development Program in 2008 will consist of the annual IFAR Small Grants Program. Deadline for proposals: March 3, 2008.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1966</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1966</guid>
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     <title>R A I L S implementation workshop, report by FARA</title>
     <description>The RAILS implementation workshop took place in January 2007 with the purpose of reviewing and validating an implementation framework for the regional agricultural information and learning systems in Africa.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1965</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1965</guid>
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     <title>Dr. Ngongi appointed president of the Alliance for a Green revolution in Africa (AGRA)</title>
     <description>Alongside Kofi A. Annan, A. Namanga Ngongi to Lead AGRAs Work To End Poverty and Hunger of Africas Small-Scale Farmers.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1885</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:29:59 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1885</guid>
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     <title>National Mango Congress in the Philippines</title>
     <description>2007-11-21 - 2007-11-23, Tagaytay City, Province of Cavite, PHL</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1886</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1886</guid>
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     <title>Agrifeeds, the agricultural news and events aggregator</title>
     <description>Agrifeeds is the new service realized to provide an aggregated view of news and events in the area of agriculture, harvested from several sources, and an easy way to customise and re-use the aggregated information.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1870</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:23:04 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1870</guid>
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     <title>CGIAR Annual General Meeting 2007, Bejing</title>
     <description>2007-12-03 - 2007-12-07, Bejing, CHN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1869</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:13:56 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1869</guid>
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     <title>1st CfP: Special Issue of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies</title>
     <description>A call for papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies dedicated to Agricultural Metadata &amp; Semantics</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1877</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1877</guid>
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     <title>African Fellows Programme: 7th Call for Pre-Proposals</title>
     <description>The Rothamsted International African Fellows Programme is now inviting pre-proposals under its 7th Call. The new deadline for receipt of pre-proposals is 11th February 2008.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1876</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1876</guid>
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     <title>Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF)</title>
     <description>The Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF) is a supraregional project that advises the German Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on all major issues of national and international agricultural research.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1830</link>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:43:41 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1830</guid>
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     <title>Communications for Sustainable Development Award - Call for nominations for climate change campaign</title>
     <description>In December 2007, two COM+ Communication Awards of US$10,000 will be granted: one for a campaign that communicates science for people and the planet; and another for a climate change campaign. Issued by COM+ and thus backed by its members, the awards recognize the role of communications in attaining 
sustainable development goals.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1789</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:04:16 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1789</guid>
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     <title>Call for Nominations for the 2007 CGIAR Science Awards</title>
     <description>http://www.cgiar.org/awards/awardsindex.html</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1787</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1787</guid>
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     <title>New Chairman for the CST of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD)</title>
     <description>The Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) elected Dr. William Dar as the new Chairman of its Committee for Science and Technology (CST)</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1768</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:57:54 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1768</guid>
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     <title>Opening Access to CGIAR Research and Knowledge: From Data, Information and Collaboration to Food</title>
     <description>From September 12 to October 3 the ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR will be seeking input on priority areas, users and needs, and on obstacles and methodologies.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1767</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:38:23 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1767</guid>
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     <title>GCP Genotyping Support Service (GSS): 1st call for proposals</title>
     <description>A sub-program of the CGIAR Generation Challenge Program.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1765</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:10:09 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1765</guid>
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     <title>Web2forDev Conference - Participatory Web for Development</title>
     <description>2007-09-25 - 2007-09-27, Rome, ITA</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1785</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1785</guid>
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     <title>Special Session on Agricultural Metadata &amp; Semantics at the 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research</title>
     <description>2007-10-11 - 2007-10-12, Corfu, GRC</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1750</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:32:28 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1750</guid>
     </item>

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     <title>Drupal</title>
     <description>The strong point of Drupal is the ease with which you can create categories / taxonomies and link the navigation (or part of it) to them.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1748</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:03:12 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1748</guid>
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     <title>InfoGlue</title>
     <description>InfoGlue is the CMS that EGFAR uses. The strong points of InfoGlue are its reliability, its very good Model-View-Controller (MVC) model implementation, its in-built support for categorisation, its ability to create infinite content types, the very granular management of users and permissions and the powerful API.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1747</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:57:48 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1747</guid>
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     <title>RIU Innovation Challenge Call for Proposals</title>
     <description>The Research into Use (RIU) programme, through the RIU Innovation Challenge Fund, will fund initiatives that will contribute to RIU&#039;s purpose by delivering significant use of RNRRS and other natural resources research outputs for the benefit (direct or indirect) of poor men and women in different contexts.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1746</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:00:29 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1746</guid>
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     <title>Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1745</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:25:08 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1745</guid>
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     <title>WARDA, CIAT, IRRI: Joint Declaration on Programmatic Alignment</title>
     <description>WARDA, CIAT and IRRI affirm their commitment to bring together the best of science and their experience in Asia, Latin America and Africa to address the major challenges facing Africa&#039;s rice sector.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1744</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:06:52 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1744</guid>
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     <title>NATURA: Call for proposals from young researchers: Technical innovation in cropping systems</title>
     <description>The general objective of all the proposed research programmes will be to enlighten the conditions for technical innovation in smallholding tropical agriculture, under conditions of high collective constraints.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1743</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:47:41 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1743</guid>
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     <title>e-Agriculture Week</title>
     <description>2007-09-21 - 2007-09-28, Rome, ITA</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1734</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:05:27 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1734</guid>
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     <title>A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration, by David A. Bainbridge</title>
     <description>This book offers practical, field-tested solutions to the problems of dryland degradation.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1714</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:14:16 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1714</guid>
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     <title>Farmer-led documentation: Local knowledge sharing in an agricultural context</title>
     <description>2007-09-28 - 2007-09-28, Rome, ITA</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1713</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:15:26 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1713</guid>
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     <title>Publications</title>
     <description>Please post here announcements about new or interesting publications, articles, documents.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1712</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:47:12 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1712</guid>
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     <title>International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, Rome, Italy, 3-5 May 2007</title>
     <description>&#039;The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) should give more priority to organic agriculture&#039;. This was the strong message from the International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, organized by the FAO at its headquarters in Rome, Italy on 3-5 May 2007.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1710</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:53:16 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1710</guid>
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     <title>NEPAD debates vision for African agriculture</title>
     <description>From BuaNews Online. Pretoria - Top officials from the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) are currently meeting in Johannesburg to discuss NEPAD&#039;s vision for African agriculture.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1709</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:18:30 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1709</guid>
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     <title>IUCN and FAO: e-conference on the major review for Theme C of the Asia-Pacific Water Summit</title>
     <description>IUCN and FAO are launchung an e-conference on the major review of the theme &#034;Water for Development and Ecosystems&#034; for the Asia-Pacific Water Summit</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1708</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:07:46 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1708</guid>
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     <title>The CGIAR Cycle 2 Challenge Programs: Call for Pre-Proposals</title>
     <description>The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) invites all interested parties to develop pre-proposals for Challenge Programs (CPs)</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1707</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:59:29 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1707</guid>
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     <title>Report on the Expert Consultation on Regional Research Needs Assessment in Central Asia and the Caucasus</title>
     <description>The Report on the Expert Consultation held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 7 to 9 March 2007, has been released, with the title &#034;FROM ISSUES TO ACTIONS&#034;.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1706</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:31:14 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1706</guid>
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     <title>New guide for conducting research in a network setting</title>
     <description>&#034;A Networked Research Approach - A guide to conducting research in a network setting&#034;, by Kate Czuczman in collaboration with Priyanthi Fernando, Urs Karl Egger and Marinke van Riet (2006)</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1705</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:07:35 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1705</guid>
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     <title>New FARA website launched at 4th FARA General Assembly</title>
     <description>The executive secretary of FARA, Dr Monty Jones, launched the new FARA website at its 4th General Assembly in Johannesburg on June 13th.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1702</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:21:50 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1702</guid>
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     <title>Technical tips</title>
     <description>Here you will find (and you can post) articles on technical issues and help / tutorials / howtos on technical issues</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1672</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:56:43 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1672</guid>
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     <title>First announcement: project for sharing information about agricultural organizations</title>
     <description>Will your organization collaborate in a project for easily sharing and updating information on organizations?
</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1662</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 12:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1662</guid>
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     <title>Electronic forum on Horticulture for Development</title>
     <description>GlobalHort and its partners, ISHS and CTA, have the pleasure to invite you to their first electronic forum on Horticulture for Development.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1661</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 10:55:19 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1661</guid>
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     <title>INBAR training events in the second half of the year 2007</title>
     <description>The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) would like to draw your attention to our training events in the second half of the year 2007.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1660</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 10:49:06 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1660</guid>
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     <title>2nd International Symposium on Human Health Effects of Fruits and Vegetables</title>
     <description>2007-10-09 - 2007-10-12, Houston, Texas, USA</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1659</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 10:34:05 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1659</guid>
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     <title>UN Assessment of IAASTD - call for experts</title>
     <description>Call for real experts on future farming to contribute to the UN Assessment of &#034;Agricultural Science and Technology for Development&#034; (IAASTD). Deadline: 21 May 2007.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1656</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 15:24:52 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1656</guid>
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     <title>Practitioner Fellowships provide a non-degree opportunity for qualified mid-level professionals from NGOs</title>
     <description>Practitioner Fellowships provide a non-degree opportunity for qualified mid-level professionals from NGOs (and in some cases, government) to conduct approved six- to twelve-month intensive applied research projects in conservation and sustainability. DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2007.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1651</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 11:20:02 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1651</guid>
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     <title>Awareness Raising Conference on Horticulture for Development</title>
     <description>2007-06-25 - 2007-06-25, Brussels, BEL</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1649</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 12:59:42 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1649</guid>
     </item>

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     <title>The &#034;Metamaker&#034;</title>
     <description>Create metadata on the fly for your organizations&#039; website!</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1625</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:27:04 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1625</guid>
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     <title>Call for Participation/Partners: HIV/AIDS and Agriculture Conference, October 2007</title>
     <description>Call for Participation/Partners for the Conference &#034;From Research to Action: Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Agriculture and Food Security in West Africa&#034;</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1619</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:47:05 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1619</guid>
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     <title>AGROVOC E-Conference</title>
     <description>2007-05-01 - 2007-06-30, -, -</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1615</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:01:22 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1615</guid>
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     <title>Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing Decentralized Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File</title>
     <description>During the last Content Management Taskforce meeting in Wageningen (March 2007), the issue was raised of what the overall workflow should be in managing information on organizations in a decentralized way in order to avoid the proliferation of databases and the problem of duplication, and a distributed architecture with a central Registry File was proposed in order to manage information on organizations uniformly on a global scale.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1599</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1599</guid>
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     <title>The Forum FARA is seeking a Coordinator for the Sub Saharan Africa Challenge Program (SSA CP)</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1519</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1519</guid>
     </item>

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     <title>CACAARI RAIS web site</title>
     <description>Short information about CACAARI RAIS web site.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1488</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:43:48 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1488</guid>
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     <title>Proposed Application Profile for describing Organizations</title>
     <description>FAO, GFAR and Wageningen International have proposed an Application Profile (a metadata format) for describing Organizations. The AP is available from the FAO AIMS website for comments.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1476</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1476</guid>
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     <title>&#034;MIS&#034;: coherently managing information on organizations, projects and experts</title>
     <description>Management Information Systems (MIS) provide information on objects related to the management of activities and projects in ARD: organizations, experts, projects and project outputs.
In correlating these types of information in a comprehensive and structured information service coherence and coordination are essential.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1475</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1475</guid>
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     <title>Standards in Agricultural Information</title>
     <description>Some standards already exist for facilitating information exchange and service interoperability in the agricultural field.
The Agricultural Information Management Standards website managed by FAO aims at coordinating and harmonizing &#034;the decentralized efforts currently taking place in the development of methodologies, standards and applications for management of agricultural information systems&#034;.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1470</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1470</guid>
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     <title>ISHS/ProMusa Symposium: Recent advances in banana crop protection for sustainable production and improved livelihoods</title>
     <description>Greenway Woods Resort, White River, South Africa - September 10-14, 2007</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1437</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:58:02 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1437</guid>
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     <title>&#034;Pluggable&#034; services</title>
     <description>This sections should feature web information services which easily interoperate with others and into which other services can easily tap.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1469</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1469</guid>
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     <title>Tools</title>
     <description>This section contains descriptions of software tools that can be useful in developing a website. It should feature only tools, not websites or web services (featured in the &#034;Pluggable services&#034; section).
</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1468</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1468</guid>
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     <item>
     <title>CMSs</title>
     <description>Content Management Systems</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1467</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1467</guid>
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     <title>General criteria</title>
     <description>This section focuses on general criteria for the selection of technologies / tools / contents for a website depending on the needs to which a website wants to respond.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1466</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1466</guid>
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     <title>Coherence in AIS</title>
     <description>This section focuses on issues related to the promotion of coherence in Agricultural Information Systems (AIS) and on the discussion on standards and tools to be used in order to implement interoperability between information services in ARD.
</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1465</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1465</guid>
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     <title>Questions and Answers</title>
     <description>Please post here all your questions or specific requests for suggestions by clicking on [Add new here] (you have to log in first).
If you want to reply to a question, click on it, click on [Edit] and fill the &#034;Answers&#034; field.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1464</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1464</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>Building and enhancing ARD websites</title>
     <description>In this section you can:
1) share your experience and help others to build or enhance their websites; 2) describe tools and services that may be used in building websites; 3) ask questions; 4) just read and use this information for building or enhancing yoour website.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1463</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1463</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>Websites</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1415</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1415</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>Job Opportunities</title>
     <description>A section for publishing announcements on job opportunities, careers, vacancies etc.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1328</link>
     <pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1328</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>INBAR Training Calendar 2007</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1312</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1312</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>Agriscontent Taskforce Meeting</title>
     <description>2007-03-01 - 2007-03-02, Wageningen, NLD</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1268</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1268</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>Events</title>
     <description>Please advertise here all the events that you feel might be of interest to the ARD Community.
All the events in this section are also published on the EGFAR &#034;What&#039;s new&#034; section.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1267</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1267</guid>
     </item>

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     <title>News</title>
     <description>Please advertise here all the news that you feel might be of interest to the ARD Community.
All the news in this section are also published on the EGFAR &#034;What&#039;s new&#034; section.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1266</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1266</guid>
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     <title>News &amp; Events</title>
     <description>This section is open to news items.
The news and events that you will insert in this section and in its sub-sections will also be published in the &#034;What&#039;s new&#034; page of the EGFAR website.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1265</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1265</guid>
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     <title>Help</title>
     <description>You are working on the public version of EGFAR: you will not be able to edit your articles unless they are published.
Remember to always write and PUBLISH your article as soon as you create it.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1262</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1262</guid>
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     <title>Bulletin Board</title>
     <description>This Bulletin Board is open to announcements, comments, notes etc.
Please only post contents that are suitable for the ARD community.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1239</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1239</guid>
     </item>

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     <title>Collaborative Website</title>
     <description>The EGFAR Collaborative Website is open to contributions from all our stakeholders. It is written and mantained by the users. If you wish to contribute by adding / editing contents, news, events etc, just register to My EGFAR and join the other authors of this website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The contents that you add to the News and Events sections will also be shown in the EGFAR &amp;quot;What&#039;s new&amp;quot; section.</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1164</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1164</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>NARI Papa New Guinea: Vacancies</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1144</link>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1144</guid>
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     <title>Fourth World Congress of Rural Women</title>
     <description>2007-04-23 - 2007-04-26, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, ZAF</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1142</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:17:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=1142</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>COL-PROTEIN deadline for proposals: 15 January 2007</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=504</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=504</guid>
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     <title>International Training Workshop on Bamboo-based Production and Enterprise Management</title>
     <description>2006-11-20 - 2006-11-29, Kudal, IND</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=326</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=326</guid>
     </item>

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     <title>Interactive Forest and Nature Policy in Practice</title>
     <description>2006-11-27 - 2006-12-08, Bogor, IDN</description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=325</link>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=325</guid>
     </item>

     <item>
     <title>CGIAR is now accepting ideas for Challenge Programs </title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=327</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=327</guid>
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     <title>FARA, CTA, CIRAD: a call for case studies for the first International Conference of the AIDA Project&lt;br /&gt;(Accra, Ghana, 22-24 January 2007)</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=321</link>
     <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=321</guid>
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     <title>Regoverning Markets call for proposals</title>
     <description></description>
     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=281</link>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=281</guid>
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     <title>CPWF calls for Expressions of Interest (EOI) and for &#034;Offers of Partnerships&#034; </title>
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     <link>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=140</link>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
     <guid>http://www.egfar.org/egfar/website/opensite/opensite/article?contentId=140</guid>
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