The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and the Uttarakhand Bamboo and Fiber Development Board (UBFDB) are jointly organizing an International Training Workshop on ‘Bamboo as a Modern Construction Material’ in India during 5 October-14 October 2009 (10 days). The event will be held in Dehradun, Uttarakhand State, India.

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The training course will be held in Bonn / Germany.

For more information please contact:
Bettina Nasgowitz – Project Assistant
AGEG Consultants eG – Jesinger Str. 52 – 73230 Kirchheim unter Teck (Germany)
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The African Crop Science Society and the local management committee cordially invite you to attend the 9th African Crop Science Conference to be held at the Southern Sun Cape Sun Hotel in Cape Town from September 28 – October 1, 2009.

The conference theme is “Science and technology supporting food security in Africa”. Aspects such as agronomy, horticulture, crop improvement and physiology, post harvest handling and food sciences, rural socio-economics and agricultural extension and education, agricultural economics, agricultural microbiology, crop genetics and biotechnology, agricultural chemistry, integration of livestock in crop production, soils and agricultural engineering sciences, water sciences, environmental sciences, biodiversity and natural resources management will, therefore, be covered.

Please visit this website for all conference information and to register – www.acss2009.up.ac.za

Deadline for receiving abstracts: 30 April 2009

Following up on the success of the First DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference “Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being” (9-12 November 2005, Oaxaca, Mexico), and in order to provide in-depth overviews of a broad range of topics in biodiversity research and initiate biodiversity research projects around the world, DIVERSITAS is pleased to announce its Second Open Science Conference: Biodiversity and society: Understanding connections, adapting to change.

The Call for Abstract (oral contributed papers or posters) is open on the OSC2 website – www.diversitas-osc.org

To access abstract submission form and guidelines (only on-line submission is accepted), please visit the conference website: www.diversitas-osc.org/index.php?page=oral_papers

Note that the deadline to submit your abstract is Tuesday 31 March 2009.