REMINDER- Call for Papers: International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization

Re-posted as reminder.
Original papers in English are invited on a theme related to those mentioned below. An international review panel will review the papers based on originality of the work, quality and relevance to the main theme of the conference. Peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The papers should strictly follow the submission guidelines.

Win 1,500 Euros by participating in an essay contest on "Youth finding solutions to challenges in agriculture and rural development using ICT

Youth finding solutions to challenges in agriculture and rural development using ICT !

Deadline for submitting applications extended to 15 August 2010!
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), in collaboration with FARA, Yam-Pukri, CAFAN, AYF, ANAFE, PAFPNET , is organizing an essay writing contest on “Youth and ICTs in Agriculture and Rural Development”.

Le rhum agricole mauricien à la conquête du monde

Succès. Jadis appelé « arack » ou « ti lambic, le rhum mauricien sest métamorphosé pour devenir le rhum agricole. Désormais, ce produit du terroir haut de gamme connaît un vrai succès à létranger. Le rhum agricole mauricien se porte bien. Selon les chiffres du Bureau Central des Statistiques, les exportations se chiffraient à 725 litres en 2008. Un an plus tard, ce chiffre est passé à 3 886

Agricultural Job Fair at UoM

We bring you today, news from an event that happened a few months back. So its not fresh news, but the initiative was worthy of publishing. We also believe that by motivating UoM students to document their activities, we will be promoting young talent in writing skills and at the same time consolidating our network. The document has been slightly edited. Enjoy the reading..
The Students’

White "gold"

Young dairy farmer Shailendra Singh Totaram, who lives in Triolet, northern
Mauritius, grew up with cows. For years, his grandparents and parents kept cattle to supplement their income. But a combination of increased urbanisation and the advent of cheap imported powdered milk forced them to give up their livestock. Two decades on, Shailendra, now 28, has revived the family dairy business,

Enterprise Mauritius invite les opérateurs de l’agroalimentaire à réfléchir aux moyens d’améliorer la compétitivité et accroître les exportations du

Enterprise Mauritius invite les opérateurs de l’agroalimentaire à réfléchir aux moyens d’améliorer la compétitivité et accroître les exportations du secteur. « Il y a la possibilité, pour les produits mauriciens de conquérir le monde », c’est Amédée Darga, le président d’Enterprise Mauritius, qui fait cette profession de foi, lors de l’ouverture d’un forum, ce mercredi 21 juillet à l’Hôtel

Food and Agro Processing Forum on 21st and 22nd July 2010 at the Maritim Hotel, Balaclava

Enterprise Mauritius will be holding a two-day Food and Agro Processing Forum on 21st and 22nd July 2010 at the Maritim Hotel, Balaclava. The theme of the forum is “Expanding the Capacity, Enhancing the quality, competitiveness and Increasing Exports of the Food Processing and Agro based Industry “. The aim of this forum is to:
1.Give visibility to the processed food industry in Mauritius,
2.

Call for Papers: International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization

Original papers in English are invited on a theme related to those mentioned below. An international review panel will review the papers based on originality of the work, quality and relevance to the main theme of the conference. Peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The papers should strictly follow the submission guidelines.
Themes (but not

AICKM National Workshop Ends

The National AICKM Workshop ended this Wednesday 14th July 2010 (see older posts). Participants had the opportunity (as representatives of their institutions) to work on a Stakeholder Information Needs Analysis and draft the foundation to a National AICKMS for the agricultural sector.

Both need to be further developed and the workshop organisers are pleased to announce that the participants took

Event Announcement: Présentation d’une Etude sur le Miel et les Produits de Charcuterie de Rodrigues

Le réseau Qualireg pour la qualité des aliments dans l’Océan Indien a mené une étude des filières porc et miel de Rodrigues entre mars et juillet 2010.

Le vendredi 16 juillet a lieu une restitution durant laquelle Raphael Belmin, chargé d’étude Qualireg, présentera son diagnostic de ces deux filières, puis discutera de l’intérêt et de la faisabilité pour un label de type « Indication

AICKM Workshop: Visit by Minister R Jeetah

Participants of AICKM workshop were pleasantly surprised by the brief visit of Minister R Jeetah (Minister of Tertiary Education, Science, Research and Technology).

The Minister was bubbling with energy and had a friendly chat with participants, organisers and resource persons.

He expressed his concerns on the negative impact of agrochemicals on human health. He was keen in down-streaming

AICKM Workshop Launched

The National AICKM workshop was launched on the 12th July 2010. OK, so the Minister was not there! But he was represented by PAS Nathoo, who read the Minister's speech and declared the event open.

Other VIPs addressing the audience at the opening were the VC of the UoM, the Chairman and DG of FARC and the SADC/ICART Project representatives- Clesensio Tizikara and Krishan Bheenick.

While we are

National Workshop on Agricultural Information Communication Knowledge Management Strategy

Our readers will recall that last week, the Faculty of Agriculture organised and hosted an eye-opener training on Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools. This week it will host yet another important workshop: A National Workshop on Agricultural Information Communication Knowledge Management (AICKM) Strategy development.

The ICART Project, of the SADC-FANR, in collaboration with the FARC is

Food Inc (2008) - A mirrored look at today's agriculture

Photo from www.imdb.com This documentary was released in 2008, but even today, its message is still vibrant. Most of you might not have viewed it yet.The documentary unveils the processes (behind the curtain) of the modern agriculture. It was nominated 10 times and won the best documentary category award 3 times.We are eating food daily. Fast food (like the KFC and

Web 2.0 Training Group Photo

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Last day of Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools Training

The Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools Training ended today. 45 participants representing various agricultural stakeholders in Mauritius attended the training.

During the two days, participants were exposed to tools covering: social media, RSS, blogs, wikis, Dgroups, GoogleDocs, social bookmarking, learning management and online surveys.

The group is now aware of possibilities in information exchange

Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools training session launched

The Dean of Faculty of Agriculture (third from left) launched the Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools training sessions. In his address, he stressed on the collaboration of UoM, FARC and SADC for holding the event. He reckoned the relevance of the training and is keen on learning the tools as well!

The SADC resource person, Mr K Bheenick (left) was enthusiastic about the response by participants and

Training in Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools for Agricultural Stakeholders

The SADC in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture (FoA) of the University of Mauritius (UoM) and the Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC) will be running a two days training sessions on Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools for Agricultural Information Management on the 8th and 9th July 2010.

The FoA has opened the training sessions to other agricultural institutions.

While this will be