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Horticultural CRSP: mapping horticultural development projects  
The Horticultural CRSP supports projects in horticultural production and marketing in the developing world. We are working with the Global Horticultural Initiative to catalog past and ongoing horticultural projects in the world’s poorer countries. >>

Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF): calls  
The Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) is happy to announce the launch of two calls. >>

CGIAR Reform: News Update  
Global partnership for agricultural research adopts new structure and approach to better meet new development challenges >>

Agropolis Fondation launches its 2010 Call for Proposals “Grand Federative Projects”  
This Call seeks to reinforce the Foundation's primary focus towards interdisciplinarity, innovation, integration and international partnerships >>

FP7-ICT call for proposals launched  
To see the full details of the call, please consult the following web address: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/calls/ >>

The Louis MALASSIS International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food  
The Louis MALASSIS International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food aims to recognize individuals, or a group of individuals, for their exemplary and promising contribution in pro-moting innovation through research, development and capacity building in the North, South or in the Mediterranean in order to improve food and agricultural systems sustainability as well as contribute to addressing food security and poverty reduction. >>

New issue of the YPARD newsletter  

ICRISAT Genebank- Conserving Biodiversity for Food Security  
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 >>

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL): new subscription prices  
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. >>

Future Agricultures International Conference "Seasonality Revisited": call for papers  
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. >>

UK Parliamentary Inquiry into the Global Food Crisis: Call for Evidence  
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. >>

Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop Science: Call for Papers  
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. >>

Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment (JENE): call for papers  

GlobalHort call for project concept notes  
GlobalHort is pleased to announce the call for project concept notes on horticultural global issues. Deadline for submission is 27th February 2009. >>

Innovation Asia-Pacific Symposium: first call for contributions  
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. >>

3rd Call of the FP7 Theme - Food Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology  
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. >>

Recent developments for the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research  
The Platform 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. >>

ICRISAT Library has developed the web-enabled SAT e-library  
ICRISAT Library has developed the web-enabled SAT e-library that hosts and links to the digital library resources. >>

FARA RAILS consultation: inventory of farmer-based information systems using voice and audio  
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. >>

A new series of the GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM starting on 1st October  
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? >>

Latest issues of the Newsletter of the AVRDC, the World Vegetable Center  
Three September 2008 issues of the Newsletter of the AVRDC, the World Vegetable Center >>

News from the CGIAR Generation Challenge Program (GCP)  
Summary of the 5 September issue of the GCP newsletter. >>

£3.3 million boost for African science  
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. >>

DFID's Research Strategy for 2008-2013 launched  
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 >>

Dr. Ngongi appointed president of the Alliance for a Green revolution in Africa (AGRA)  
Alongside Kofi A. Annan, A. Namanga Ngongi to Lead AGRA’s Work To End Poverty and Hunger of Africa’s Small-Scale Farmers. >>

Agrifeeds, the agricultural news and events aggregator  
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. >>

1st CfP: Special Issue of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies  
A call for papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies dedicated to Agricultural Metadata & Semantics >>

New Chairman for the CST of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD)  
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) >>

Opening Access to CGIAR Research and Knowledge: From Data, Information and Collaboration to Food  
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. >>

GCP Genotyping Support Service (GSS): 1st call for proposals  
A sub-program of the CGIAR Generation Challenge Program. >>

RIU Innovation Challenge Call for Proposals  
The Research into Use (RIU) programme, through the RIU Innovation Challenge Fund, will fund initiatives that will contribute to RIU'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. >>

NATURA: Call for proposals from young researchers: Technical innovation in cropping systems  
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. >>

International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, Rome, Italy, 3-5 May 2007  
'The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) should give more priority to organic agriculture'. 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. >>

NEPAD debates vision for African agriculture  
From BuaNews Online. Pretoria - Top officials from the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) are currently meeting in Johannesburg to discuss NEPAD's vision for African agriculture. >>

IUCN and FAO: e-conference on the major review for Theme C of the Asia-Pacific Water Summit  
IUCN and FAO are launchung an e-conference on the major review of the theme "Water for Development and Ecosystems" for the Asia-Pacific Water Summit >>

Report on the Expert Consultation on Regional Research Needs Assessment in Central Asia and the Caucasus  
The Report on the Expert Consultation held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 7 to 9 March 2007, has been released, with the title "FROM ISSUES TO ACTIONS". >>

New guide for conducting research in a network setting  
"A Networked Research Approach - A guide to conducting research in a network setting", by Kate Czuczman in collaboration with Priyanthi Fernando, Urs Karl Egger and Marinke van Riet (2006) >>

New FARA website launched at 4th FARA General Assembly  
The executive secretary of FARA, Dr Monty Jones, launched the new FARA website at its 4th General Assembly in Johannesburg on June 13th. >>

First announcement: project for sharing information about agricultural organizations  
Will your organization collaborate in a project for easily sharing and updating information on organizations? >>

Electronic forum on Horticulture for Development  
GlobalHort and its partners, ISHS and CTA, have the pleasure to invite you to their first electronic forum on Horticulture for Development. >>

Call for Participation/Partners: HIV/AIDS and Agriculture Conference, October 2007  
Call for Participation/Partners for the Conference "From Research to Action: Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Agriculture and Food Security in West Africa" >>

INBAR Training Calendar 2007  

COL-PROTEIN deadline for proposals: 15 January 2007  

CGIAR is now accepting ideas for Challenge Programs  

FARA, CTA, CIRAD: a call for case studies for the first International Conference of the AIDA Project<br />(Accra, Ghana, 22-24 January 2007)  

Regoverning Markets call for proposals