• What's on in Montpellier?:
  - G20 agricultural research systems address food security
  - A visit to France by Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009
• Just published:
  - An English version of the Agropolis International thematic series «Biodiversity—Science for humans and nature»
  -Final report of the ARP PARME Forward-thinking Workshop: “What research and what partnerships for the Mediterranean?”
• Cooperation:
  - The Department of Hérault and the chilean Region Coquimbo pursue their cooperation
  - Cooperation between Algeria and the regional scientific community
• Training: Montpellier SupAgro, in conjunction with Agropolis International, is to endow a chair in World Food Supply with official UNESCO sanction

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• What's on in Montpellier?:
  - The CGIAR Consortium is now hosted at Agropolis International
  - GRiS : Global Rice Scientific Partnership, Global Rice Scientific Partnership
• Training: A new engineering specialisation oriented towards agricultural and agrifood innovation occupations
• Zoom: The Center for Biology and Managementof Populations (CBGP)—a joint research unit

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• Arcad, an agrobiodiversity resource centre at the heart of the Montpellier scientific community
• Cooperation: The Agropolis International scientific community is supporting the reform of the National Higher Agronomy School. (ENSA) in Algiers, Algeria
• Cooperation: Agropolis International is participating, together with the regional agricultural cooperation federation (FRCA-LR), in the the RED-ITAA project*
• Zoom: 13 research teams unite under the AGAP banner
• Training: Montpellier SupAgro and CEPEL new masters
• In brief:A call for session proposals has been issued, with a 31 March deadline, for the 13th International Congress of Ethnobiology in 2012 (CISE). The scientists get behind the International Year of Forests.

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• "What's on in Montpellier? :Africa and Europe–Partnerships for Agricultural Development
• Cooperation:AFRESH, Activity and Food for Regional Economies Supporting Health
• Zoom:TETIS Joint Research Unit -Territories, Environment, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information
• Just published:13^th number of the Dossiers d’Agropolis series "Biodiversity: Science for humans and nature"
• In brief:Review of the International Mid-Term Meeting “The Future of Natural Rubber” on the European EU-PEARLS project (EU-based Production and Exploitation of Alternative Rubber and Latex Sources), 14-15 October 2010, Agropolis International, Montpellier

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• Montpellier - World capital of agricultural research for development
  The French candidate city of Montpellier chosen to host the headquarters of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
• Agro2010 - summit meeting for European agriculture
• Cooperation: Review of the ARCUS project final seminar (2007-2010), which focused on French-Chinese cooperation on sustainable development
• Just published: 11th thematic issue published by Agropolis International: 'DURAS projects: Innovative partnerships for Sustainable Development'' and 12th thematic issue: 'Agronomy-Crops and cropping systems'
• In brief: Review of GCARD 2010.
• In brief: 13th International Congress of Ethnobiology (CISE) in 2012.
• In brief: The French Scientific Committee on Desertification (CSFD) has a new President
• Training: International Centre for development oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA) - towards a new paradigm in agricultural research for development (ARD)

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• What's on in Montpellier?
  - Montpellier hosts the 1st Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD
  - 2010: Montpellier, capital of international agricultural research
• Looking for partnerships: Workshop on Mediterranean prospectives analysis (ARP-PARME 2010-2011) - 'What kind of research and partnerships for the Mediterranean?'
• Just published: 10th thematic issue published by Agropolis International: 'A Model laboratory without walls: the Brazilian Labex'
• Services: The Euraxess Centre, a tool to facilitate the stay of guest-researchers.
• Training: A new training program for managers of water and sanitation services started in September 2009 'International Executive Masters program OpT - Water for All'
• In short: Agropolis International has just become a new associate member of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP)
• Zoom: Joint Research Unit G-EAU : Water management, stakeholders and uses
• Cooperation: Final conference on the ECHEL-EAU project
• Agropolis International has just launched the next generation web site (French and English)

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• Interview of Alain Vidal, director of the Challenge Program on Water & Food (CPWF)
• TCWG 2009 Annual Conference Biodiversity Information Standards
• Creation of AgriNatura
• European project HighTech Europe
• The Europe Committee: a tool for the scientific community
• A new engineer’s course: Sustainable Agricultural and Agrofood Systems in Southern countries (SAADs)
• Gilles Boeuf and Michel Lebrun have been appointed respectively as chairman and deputy-chairman of the Agropolis agro-environment Scientific and Technical Committee.
• Just published: 8^th thematic file published by Agropolis International "Soil, earth’s living skin" ; Scientific and Technical Information (STI) facing the issues of high-level research and training
• A Mediterranean Observatory on Environment (OSU-OREME)
• XIII^th World Congress(International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists)

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• French Scientific Committee on Desertification (CSFD)
• Morocco: a European programme on argan and its by-products
• The Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) 28-31 March 2010 - Montpellier, France
• Decentralised cooperation Chile
• Welcoming delegations and visitors in Montpellier
• Botany and computational plant architecture
• Just published : “A Cirad-Inra Foresight study on world food and agriculture systems in 2050" February 2009 ; « Regards sur l’activité 2005-2008 d’Agropolis International »

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• Agropolis Fondation : In just 2 years the new Foundation invested ca. 10 million euros on 48 selected proposals
• Competitiveness cluster Q@LI-MEDiterranée: a connection between research and industry to be mobilised at international level
• Bernard Hubert is the new president of Agropolis International
• ECHEL-Eau project: toward an integrated water resources management
• A new residence for students, trainees, visiting professors and researchers
• Plant development and improvement: A topic supported by the campus dynamics
• Just published: PROTA* Encyclopedia (Plant resources of Tropical Africa) publishes 2 new books

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• Report on ABC-Network: The european network of clusters in agro-biotechnologies
• ARCUS project - Languedoc-Roussillon/China Sino-French Cooperationon sustainable development: Chongming eco-island
• DURAS Project: Innovative partnerships for sustainable development.
• International network in rural and agricultural training (FAR)
• BOMLR Open Library Montpellier/Languedoc-Roussillon
• An example of scientific cooperation between France and Tunisia: Detoxification of clams and integrated management

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• Biodiversity and Agricultures, hot topic in Montpellier: Several international events will be held in
  Montpellier over the coming months around one of the major areas of interest for the regional research community.
• Just published :Societies and Sustainable Development: Contribution of Social Sciences - 7^th 'dossier d’Agropolis International' (September 2008, 68 pages)
• EMBRAPA’s Labex in Europe: growing in 2009 with a new coordinator
• New Call for Candidates Agris Mundus Master, European Master degree
• Annual General Meeting 2008 (AGM 2008) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
• Guest researchers: organization of French courses

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