Announcements

On Wednesday 10 March 2010, from 8.30 am to 1 pm, the Brussels Development Briefing on ‘Biodiversity and rural development in ACP countries’ will be streamed live from the Centre Borschette Brussels. Click on http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/basic/ccab2a/ to view it. For more information on the Briefing...

Marketing Internship – Job Profile Background The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), an international organization based in Wageningen, The Netherlands, has an opening for one intern for a period of 6 months, renewable only once. The intern will work as a member of the newly created CTA Marketing Services Tea...

Background The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), an international organization based in Wageningen, The Netherlands, has an opening for one 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 dis...

On 10th March (8h30-13h00), the next Brussels Development Briefing will discuss the key role Biodiversity plays in rural development, especially for ACP countries. Issues at stake include: the relationship between poverty and biodiversity, the effects of biodiversity loss in hunger and food insecurity, governance issues, the Intellectual Property Rights’ challenge, farmers rights and econo...

CTA is carrying out a pre-qualification process in order to develop a short list of potential candidates for a tender for the distribution of agricultural reference publications in English. Project description:Most organisations in ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries have a limited access to information resources on agriculture and rural development. ...

The aim of this call is to establish a shortlist of firms that will be invited to tender for the development and management of Agritrade – News and analysis on ACP agricultural trade Background The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) operates within the framework of the ACP-EC Cotonou Agreement and CTA is...

A specialized online course in Food Security with university certification will be jointly offered by FAO and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) starting March 2010. The online tutored course will provide 15 university credits and will be delivered (in English) as part of the UOC Master's in Food, Society and International Food Governance. The university online c...

The Brussels Weblog team would be very grateful if you could spend a few minutes to reply to the questionnaire below on the quality of the Brussels ACP-EU News Service (http://brussels.cta.int). Your feedback is critical to us if we want to ensure that this service is still responding to your needs and expectations both in term...

2010 African Agriculture Competitions and Awards Young Professionals in Science Award Women in Science Award IMPRESSA Award for Scientists Download the attached PDF for more information

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