Mois : août 2007

The Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis ISH

(the Ljubljana Graduate School of Humanities, in english, in slovenscina).

Linked with Svetlana Slapsak – Slovenia.

The Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis ISH, the Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities was founded in accordance with the national Higher Education Act. The resolution giving consensus for its foundation was adopted on November 24, 1995 by the national Board of Higher Education at its 17th session, in conformity with Article 49 of the Higher Education Act. As an independent organisation, the ISH was entered in the register of higher education institutions at the Ministry of Education and Sport under charter number 601-736/95 … (full text).

Status Sole;
Contact (where we are).

Postgraduate education: Studies comprise of 5 programmes and 3 courses of study divided into modules.

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Farmers' Cooperatives (India)

This Cooperatives are part of ‘Campus Cooperative Development Corporation‘, named inside our post of June 27, 2007: ‘Some alternative economy cooperatives in India‘.

Published on World Prout Assembly (Homepage) by Shrii Prabhat R Sarkar, August 13, 2007.

Providing food, clothing, housing, education and medical treatment is most important for social security. These five minimum requirements are indispensable to raise the living standard of the people. To guarantee these, the principle of production based on consumption has to be adopted. Special emphasis should be placed on agricultural production because the provision of food is of vital importance, and for this the cooperative system should be rapidly expanded.

According to PROUT, too many people should not be engaged in agriculture. Rather, a major part of the population should depend on industry. Not more than thirty to forty-five percent of the population should be employed in the agricultural sector.

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etcGroup.org

action group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration

The issues: more than two dozens of issues, from BIO… via Erosion/’other new technologies’ to Human Rights.

News;
etcStaff;
etcMaterials;
annual report;
Contact.

etcBlog: … you will find a series of articles on biofuels, originally written in Spanish by one of ETC Group’s researchers. (Unfortunately, English translations are not always available). Biofuel production is currently a much-debated topic in Latin America. The prominent farmers’ organizations in the region believe that the production of biofuels will lead to further marginalization and erosion of the lands which are currently being used for food production.

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Inter Press Services IPS

Available in 13 languages (left column, scroll down)

Linked with Praful Bidwai – India, and with many other authors.

IPS, the civil society’s leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.

Headlines;
News Service;
search;
What we do:
Projects & programmes;
Contact.

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