Internship Opportunity: Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Programme

BackgroundThe Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), an international organization based in Wageningen, The Netherlands, has an opening for an intern for a period of 6 months, renewable only once. The intern will work as a member of the CTA Communications Services Team.CTA’s mandate puts emphasis on facilitating access, exchange and dissemination of information in the

Ivorian agricultural scientists open up their research

Dear readers: An initiative to to be inspired from!

[ABIDJAN] More than a dozen agricultural research institutes in
Côte d'Ivoire have agreed to open up access to their research results
and raise farmers' awareness of their work through a shared online
platform. 


The aim is to increase the uptake of new and existing technologies and research findings, and eventually to boost agricultural

University of Mauritius Vacancy: Research Assistant (Faculty of Agriculture)

Post: RESEARCH ASSISTANTApplications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the post of Research Assistant on the project entitled “Potential of local seaweed resources as alternative feed ingredients in pig diets” funded by the Mauritius Research Council Solicited Research Grant Scheme.The recruitment and appointment will be on an assignment basis for a period of 3 months as from 1

YPARD Monthly Newsletter - August 2012

YPARD Monthly Newsletter - August



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YPARD Funding News Bulletin - 3rd August 2012

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Bioversity International -- Abdou-Salam

Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity in Mauritius: Closing Ceremony and Award of Certificates

The closing ceremony and award of certificates of the Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity in Mauritius was held on 27th July 2012 at the Lecture Theatre 2 of the New Academic Complex, University of Mauritius. Present at the ceremony were the Pro-Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of the University of Mauritius, the acting Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, representative from the  Food and Agricultural

A new information resource for the Indian Ocean: the Bio & Agri Portal

From CIRAD - Sophie Della Mussia

The islands of the Indian Ocean have launched, under the auspices of
the IOC (with support from the CIRAD and financial support from Europe,
the French & Réunion Government) a new information resource on the
web: the Indian Ocean Biodiversity & Agriculture portal.


It's finally here - the Bio & Agri OI Web Portal is now open to
business, where you can