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ISTRC 14th Symposium to be held in India in November 2006

The 9th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops - Africa Branch on Root and Tuber Crops - is to be held 31 October to 5 November 2004

MARDI (Malaysian Agricultural Research & Development Institute) and ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) are jointly organizing the above Symposium on

The Proceedings of the 12th Symposium (Tsukuba, Japan) have now been published. The contents are available here.

The Thirteenth Triennial Symposium of the ISTRC will be held in Arusha, Tanzania on 9-14 November 2003.

November 2001 sees the publication of two new books on cassava:

MARDI (Malaysian Agricultural Research & Development Institute) and ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) are jointly organizing the above Symposium on

The Executive Council of the ISTRC-Africa Branch has decided to host the 8th symposium of the Society at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria.

The international symposium "Sweetpotato: Food and Health for the Future," which will be held from November 26 to 29, 2001, is organized by the International Society of

Professor Marney Pascoli Cereda, ISTRC Councillor for South America,

The Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security have confirmed on behalf of the Government of Tanzania

Organizers: International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), International Potato Center (CIP), Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM)

The development of the Global Cassava Development Strategy (GCDS) and associated documents evolved from a brainstorming meeting convened by the International Fund for

Following the last successful seminar in Cotonou, Benin, the Africa Branch of the ISTRC will hold its next symposium in the Cameroon in November 2001.

Organizers: National Agrarian University La Molina (UNALM), International Potato Center (CIP)
Date: 28-30 November 2001
Place: Lima, Peru