Pre-selection of the SIST Workshop Participants
Country (origin): Madagascar
A workshop on the digitisation, creation, management and dissemination of a collection of electronic documents is to be held from 15 to 26 October 2007 in Antananarivo (Madagascar) within the framework of the SIST project (Scientific and technical informa...
http://www.sist-sciencesdev.net/

Call for papers submission to Special Issue of the AfJARE on Climate Change and African Agriculture
Country (origin): South Africa
The African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AfJARE) plans to publish a special issue (SI) on the economics and policy of climate change and agriculture in Africa. Submissions are invited for the planned special issue, the Guest Editors of ...
http://www.aaae-africa.org/afjare/

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Scholarships for media practitioners from Southern Africa
Country (origin): Namibia
Coordinated by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), this scholarship exchange programme aims to assist individual media practitioners from Southern Africa in all areas of the media (managerial, editorial, advertising, and technical) to work on a...
http://www.comminit.com/funding2007/scholarships2006/funding-24.html

Wheat Imports 'A Threat' to Local Farmers
Country (origin): South Africa
Business Day (Johannesburg): GRAIN SA chairman Bully Botma yesterday urged government to introduce higher tariffs to protect the country's wheat growers against cheap imports mainly from subsidised countries. He said SA was a net importer of wheat, pr...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501040893.html

Climate Change: Activists Question World Bank's Commitment to Sustainable Development
Country (origin): South Africa
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg): While the World Bank says it encourages 'environmentally responsible' economic growth in developing countries, activists wonder why it has supported 332 fossil fuel projects in the past 12 years. According to a study...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412150006.html

Call for Abstracts: International Conference on HIV/AIDS, Food and Nutrition Security (14-16 April 2005)
Country (origin): South Africa
Deadline for submission: 14 December 2004. IFPRI and partners are organizing a global conference to enhance learning about the interactions between HIV/AIDS, food and nutrition security and their implications for food and nutrition-relevant policy. The co...
http://www.ifpri.org/events/conferences/2005/20050414HIVAIDS.htm

Research into South African environment launched
Country (origin): South Africa
SciDevNet: South Africa's National Research Foundation has launched a major study of long-term environmental changes, including climate patterns, and how they affect natural resources and the communities that rely on them. The main task of the South Af...
http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1622&language=1

German Govt to Help Finance Land Reform in Namibia
Country (origin): Namibia
GERMANY has pledged to finance Namibia's land reform process, as its former colony plans to start expropriating land from white farmers to resettle landless masses. 'Our participation in land reform is very important, this will definitely be a major part ...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200408161007.html

Science writing network launched in Malawi
Country (origin): Malawi
Charles Mkoka, SciDev.Net: Malawian journalists have launched a network to promote home-grown science reporting, which they see as central to their country's socio-economic development. Science has had minimal coverage in Malawi until now. The Coalition o...
http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1552&language=1

Malawi on course to phase out harmful pesticide
Country (origin): Malawi
[LILONGWE] Officials in Malawi are working flat out to promote safe alternatives to the agricultural pesticide methyl bromide, whose use they hope to phase out by the end of the year. If they succeed, Malawi will be the first in southern Africa to phase o...
http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=4&item=News&itemid=1501&language=1