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High-Value Fruits Research Workshop
Resources
Associations/CentersConferencesPublicationsTropical Plant Databases
Urgent Notice for Ph.D. Candidate
The Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Georg-August-University of Goettingen (Germany) has an opening for a doctoral student to work full-time in a project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and lead by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA, Drs. Dubois and Coyne), entitled: “Banana tissue culture: community dissemination pathways for delivery of high quality planting material to create markets for African farmers”. This project relates to the economics of banana high-value agricultural supply chains in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The positions are funded for a period of three years, with a starting date in April 2008 (or somewhat later). Click here for more details.Tropical Fruits
High-Value Crop Workshops, June 6-8, 2007 World Agroforestry Centre Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya
The Trees and Markets section of the World Agroforestry Centre coordinated a three-day congruent meeting of the Interest Group on High-Value Fruits Research and the CGIAR System Priority 3A. The proceedings, list of participant, presentations, and many other valuable resources from this meeting can be found here.
Resources
Associations/Centers
Bioversity International. Banana and Plantain Section.
CARBAP - Centre Africain de Recherches sur Bananiers et Plantains
CIRAD - Agricultural Research For Developing Countries
European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN)
ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIAT
IITA -International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
International Society for Horticultural Science. Tropical and Subtropical Fruits Working Group
International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet)
ProMusa The website of the banana R & D community.
World Agroforestry Centre Trees and Markets
Conferences
First International Symposium on Biotechnology of Fruit Species, September 1-5, 2008 Dresden Germany This symposium builds on previous symposia of tropical and subtropical species and follows the successful symposium in Daytona, Florida in 2005, which covered biotechnology and transformation of tropical and temperate species. The upcoming symposium will explore the progress being made in temperate, tropical, and subtropical fruit species.
Banana and Plantain in Africa Oct. 5-9, 2008 Mombasa, Kenya
Publications
Acta Horticulturae: ISHS Section on Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Meetings
Fruits A scientific journal for original articles and reviews on fruit crops in temperate, Mediterranean, subtropical and tropical regions. Fruits covers a wide range of subjects (agronomy, physiology, genetics, crop protection, postharvest storage, product processing and marketing). In each issue, Fruits presents a list of forthcoming meetings and new books published on the fruit topic.
Tropical and Subtropical Fruits Newsletter (ISHS)