Useful links

Below is a list of useful internet links to various sites with regards to Agricultural Reasearch for Development.

Date	Description	Link	Attachment
26.08.2009	Global-Bio-Pact (FP7, under negotiation): Global Assessment of Biomass and Bioproduct Impacts on Socio-economics and Sustainability (Including Case studies in LA, Africa and Indonesia)	http://www.globalbiopact.eu/	Poster_Global-Bio-Pact_20090623.pdf
26.08.2009	BioTop provides a broad overview of the existing biofuels sector in Latin American counties. Key focus of the project is the identification and assessment of improved 1st and 2nd generation biofuel conversion technologies.	http://www.top-biofuel.org	Poster_BioTop_20090623.pdf
26.08.2009	This conference is organised in the framework of the project COMPETE (Competence Platform on Energy Crop and Agroforestry Systems for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems – Africa) co-financed by the European Commission under the 6th Research Framework Programme. For more information of the COMPETE project, please visit the website	http://www.compete-bioafrica.net
05.06.2009	Bioenergy Fact Sheet 1/2009 by German Advisory Council on Global Change		wbgu bioenergy factsheet.pdf
26.01.2009	Policy Brief from the Sussex Energy Group “Current biofuels: bridge or obstacle to sustainable next generation technologies?” By Markku Lehtonen		Sussex Energy Group_Biofuels Policy Brief 4.pdf
26.01.2009	2^ndAnnual Biofuel Summit in Singapore 25^th – 27^th May 2009 “Leading the way to optimize results from Biofuel form of renewable energy”		090525 Biofuels Summit 09_vh.pdf
26.11.2008	A workshop report on the 'Sustainable biofuel production in tropical and subtropical countries' was carried out by an external contractor and managed by the Policy Department for Economic and Scientific Policy at the request of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.	Workshop report: 'Sustainable biofuel production in tropical and subtropical countries"
19.11.2008	The FAO Inter-Departmental Working Groups on Bioenergy and on Biotechnology invite you to join an e-mail conference they are organizing entitled: "The role of agricultural biotechnologies for production of bioenergy in developing countries" and to forward the information to other interested parties. This moderated conference runs from 10th November to 7th December. See http://www.fao.org/biotech/Conf15.htm to access the background document. To join, send an e-mail to mailserv@mailserv.fao.org with the following text on two lines: subscribe BIOTECH-L subscribe biotech-room3 For more information, please contact biotech-mod3@fao.org.	FAO: E-Conference on Bioenergy and Biotechnologies
06.11.2008	The ACP Science and Technology Programme is an ACP-EU co-operation programme in the field of science and technology. It is funded by the European Union (from the IXth European Development Fund and the European Union’s General Budget BL 21.031700) and implemented by the ACP Secretariat. Would you like to be notified by e-mail of the ACP Science and Technology Programme’s Call for Proposals? Just send a message to the ACP Science and Technology Programme Management Unit at info@acp-st.eu or by fax +32.2.2801406 indicating “Mailing list Call for Proposals” and you will receive a confirmation by mail with information on when and where to download all relevant documents.	ACP Science and Technology Programme
26.09.2008	A very interesting development is underway in West-Africa. In order to tap the rapidly growing global market for biomass and to strengthen local energy security, West-African countries are launching the 'African Miscanthus Plantations' project or 'Plantations Africaines de Miscanthus' - PAMI [*French].	Biopact project