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INTERNATIONAL RURAL EXCHANGE (INC)

A non-profit making placement agency for agricultural exchange students. Trainees receive seven-month work visa and are placed for six months with 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 Agricultural Training Programmes in your country.

NON-WOOD NEWS

A new information bulletin about non-wood forest products. Published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

More information from: FOPN, FAO, Italy

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 van Seters, Secretary, The Netherland

NETWORKING LINK FOR AFRICA

West Africa Link is twice-yearly newsletter produced by The Methodist Church Division of Social Responsibility as part of their West Africa Agroforestry Programme.

For details write to. Methodist Relief and Development Fund, Division of Social Responsibility, London

ORGANIC FARMING

A series 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)

Further information from: Mr Njorige, Kenya Institute for Organic Farming, Kenya

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

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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.