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Managing Rural Developme nt: Information Systems Monitoring and
CANADA
Evaluation
Seventh International Pollination Symposium
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1996 Further details from: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Lethbridge Research Station, Lethbridge, Alberta, Tl} 4BI, Canada Fax: 403 382 3156
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ty-March 1995, Wye Col lege, Ashford
Further details from: Mary Arno! J, Short Courses. Office, Department of Ke TN25:5AH, Agriculture Economics, Wye College, Ashf United Kingdom
CUBA Meeting on pollination to be organised under the auspices of APIMONDIA 1996
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Further details will be announced in Beekeeping & Development.
NOTICE BOARD INTERNATIONAL RURAL EXCHANGE
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A non-profit making placement agency for agricultural exchange
GERMANY Symposium on honeybee mating stations on islands, to be organised under the auspices of APLMONDIA April 1995 Further details will be announced in Beekeeping & Development.
students. Trainees receive seven-month work visa and are placed for six months with a host family. Allowance of USS] 35 per week plus full board. Age limit 30. Your costs: travel and administration. Try locating your local branch through your Young Farmers’ Organisation or the a
Agricultural Training Programmes in your country.
INDIA Resource Inventory Techniques to Support Agroforestry Activities
NON-WOOD NEWS Anew information bulletin about non-wood forest products. Published
dctober 1995, Palampur rurther details from: Dr Atul, Department of Agroforestry and Environment, HPAgriculture University, Palampur 176062, Kangra (HP), India Fax: 91 1894 2259
by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. More information from:
FOPN, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy
ISRAEL Bee Products: Properties, Applications and Apitherapy 26-30 May 1996, Tel Aviv Further details from: Dan Knassim Ltd, POB 57005, Tel Aviv 61570, Israel
Fax: 972 3561 2303
ITALY XXth International Congress of Entomology 25-31 August 1996, Florence Further details from: The Organising Secretariat, Via A la Moarmora 24, 50121, Florence, Italy
MALAYSIA Tropical Bees and the Environment
RAINFOREST MEDICAL FOUNDATION The Rainforest Medical Foundation focuses attention on the conservation and use of medicinal plants found in rainforests with the aim of conserving the forests to support their indigenous peoples. More information from: Dr A P van Seters, Secretary, Einthovenlaan 8 2!05 T] Heemstede, The Netherlands
NETWORKING LINK FOR AFRICA West Africa Link is a twice-yearly newsletter produced by The Methodist Church Division of Social Responsibility as part of their West Africa Agroforestry Programme.
Methodist Relief and Development Fund, Division of Social Responsibility, Central Buildings, London SWIH 9NH, United Kingdom
For details write to.
11-15 March 1995
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Further details from: Secretariat, BEENET ASIA, Plant Protection
epartment, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, elangor DE, Malaysia Fax: 603 948 2507
SWITZERLAND The XXXIV International Apicultural Congress - APIMONDIA 15-19 August 1995, Lausanne Further details from: APIMONDIA Secretary General, Corso Vittorio Emanuele 101, 1-00186 Rome, italy Fax: 396 685 2286
THAILAND Recent Advances in Tropical Tree Seed Technology and Planting Stock Production 12-14 June 1995, Haad-Yai/Songkhla Further details from: Symposium Secretariat, 18180, Thailand Fax: 66 36 341 859
AFTSC Muak-Lek, Saraburi
ORGANIC FARMING Aseries of three-week workshops to be held annually for four years to enable participants to improve their knowledge of organic farming. Participants must come from Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania or Uganda. (First one 16 January-3 February 1995)
Mr| W Njorige, Kenya Institute for Organic Farming, PO Box 34972, Nairobi, Kenya
Further information from:
BOY OH BOY! Double congratulations to Helen Jackson and her husband Colin on the birth in July of their twin boys, Daniel and Gareth.
EASY CONTACT
VIETNAM Third Asian Apicultural Association Conference 1996
Use Notice Board to tell everyone your special announcements, job vacancies, or about your journal. Cost: 0.50 or USS1 per word.
Further details will be announced in Beekeeping & Development. send details to If you want details of your event to appear here,
Bees for Development, 4AB UK Fax: 44 (0)1600 716167 Troy, Monmouth, NP5
ABees for Development publication
ERRATA We apologise for our mistake on page 7 of B&D 32. The picture on the right shows large scale, migratory beekeeping with Apis cerana, not Apis mellifera as stated.
THIRTEEN
