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Water management in the next century by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…-correction- An announcement and call for papers was made in Spore 34 page 12 for the 15th Congress of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) to be held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 6-11 September 1993. …”
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Seeds that clean water by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Trials conducted by the Microbiology Department of the University of Leicester, UK, to decontaminate water by using seeds from the tree Moringa obleifa were reported in Spore 34 (Newslines page 11). Professor Hassan Musnad from the Forestry Research...…”
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Locust-fungi success by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…In October 1990 SPORE reported on trials being conducted by CABl's International Institute of Biological Control using fungi as a biological control agent against grasshoppers and locusts (Spore 29 page 10). The pathogenic fungus Metarhizium...…”
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All the niches for fishing by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…This listing of 121 institutes (one per page) in 57 countries, details their work on fish research, the technology of fish as food, or training, plus programmes and publications.International directory of fish technology institutesFAO Fisheries...…”
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Tropical commodities and their markets by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Tropical commodities and their markets by Peter Bobbins 1995 276pp ISBN 0 7494 1627 0 Kogan Page Ltd. 120 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JN, UK…”
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Seed banks need investors by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Delegates at a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference in Leipzig agreed a 50-pageGlobal Plan of Action for the Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. …”
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Mailbox 02 by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…MailboxWe are publishing on our 'Mailbox' page extracts of letters sent to the editorial team at CTA. …”
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Mailbox 03 by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…MailboxWe are publishing on our 'Mailbox' page extracts of letters sent to the editorial team at CTA. …”
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Plant of the month by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…One of the features of MedPlant (see Links, page 10) is the 'plant of the month'. In May 2002 it was Vernonia amygdalina, a bitter leaf shrub indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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World Wide Pledge by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Souleymane Ouattara, Coordinator of Journalists in Africa for Development (JADE), in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, thanks CTA for the training it provided JADE in web page design at the December 1998 workshop held in Dakar, Senegal (see News in Brief)....…”
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Briefing on the Legal Status of the International Rice Research Institute by International Rice Research Institute

“…This two page memorandum describes the legal status of IRRI from when it was established in 1960 to approximately 1995. …”
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Compromise and contestation: Understanding the drivers and implications of coalition behaviour in Africa by Resnick, Danielle

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Strengthening capacities for enhancing the nutrition sensitivity of agricultural policy and practice by Gillespie, Stuart, Margetts, Barrie

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Cash-strapped Europe should still do more to tackle global poverty by Fan, Shenggen

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Fish farming systems for Africa by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…(As reported in Spore 29 page 10). Researchers from the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) working with the University of Malawi and the...…”
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Book donation scheme for Africa by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…However, a new donation scheme jointly administered by the Ranfurly Library Service (See Source of Information page 16)...…”
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The whole yields more by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The relatively young Kenyan NGO SACRED-Africa (see Spore 82, page 15) is extending its work to improve maize-legume inter-cropping in ways that can be quickly adopted by farmers. …”
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The course clan complain again! by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…F K Chadokweezda, Librarian of the International Corps Heralding Oneness in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, softens us up with his gratitude for our marvellous services: 'Every page of Spore is sweets to the sweet. But,' he goes on, 'where are those courses? …”
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Certification is hard to get by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Emmanuel Antwi, General Secretary of the Ghana Organic Agriculture Network (PO Box 6342, Kumasi, Ghana), observes that 'the development of a local organic certificate programme (see main article, page 1) is an important step in promoting organic...…”
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Clean shrimps after all by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…After a boom decade in the 1980s, world production of cultivated shrimp has fallen sharply due to intensive and polluting methods of cultivation, which encourage diseases (see Spore 82, page 4 & 5). Some say it would be best to stop such methods....…”
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