The National Agricultural Research Institute NARI

Linked with Maria LINIBI – Papua New Guinea, and with Strategies for agriculture and rural development in Papua New Guinea.

NARI is a publicly-funded statutory research organisation for conducting applied and development-oriented research on food crops, emerging food and cash crops, livestock and resource management issues. In its vision for PNG, NARI foresees « Prosperous PNG Agricultural Communities. » The word « prosperous » implies economic, social, and cultural well-being of all residents of PNG. Reference to « agricultural communities », in its wider sense, means that the prosperity of all in PNG will be realised through wealth creation and sustainable broad-based economic growth from agricultural development. The major targets are the smallholder, semi-subsistence, semi-commercial and commercial farmers and rural communities in the country.

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The Friends of St. Vincent's Center

Linked with Nicole Magloire – Haiti.

Friends of St. Vincents. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center for handicapped children is a volunteer group formed in 1997 to help the children and staff at St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti obtains the resources needed to educate and care for the children. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center is an interfaith outreach ministry of St. James’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford, Connecticut.

The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center mission statement is to provide service, supplies and support to the children and staff at St. Vincent’s Center, a residential school, day school, orphanage and hospital for approximately 350 handicapped children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

2005 has been a very difficult year for our colleagues and the children at St. Vincent’s Center due to the political situation and civil unrest. The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center continued their support in many different ways as it was not possible to conduct medical, construction and education missions in Haiti.

St. Vincent Hospital.

Proyecto Palomas

Linked with Lázara Lizette Vila Espina – Cuba.

¿Qué es el Proyecto Palomas?

USTED PUEDE AYUDAR A CIENTÍFICOS A CONTESTAR LAS SIGUIENTES PREGUNTAS:

1. ¿Por qué existen las palomas en colores tan variados?

2. ¿Qué color de pareja suele escoger una paloma?

Los participantes del Proyecto Palomas observan palomas y envían sus observaciones y cómputos al Laboratorio de Ornitología de Cornell en donde científicos recopilan los datos y usan la información para examinar estas dos preguntas de interés científico. La gente participa al contar palomas y anotar los comportamientos de cortejo observados en las bandadas de palomas del vecindario.

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big-picture.tv BPTV

Linked with Wally N’Dow – Gambia, with Lori Wallach – USA, and with Marshall B. Rosenberg – Switzerland & USA.

Big Picture TV BPTV – an online media channel that streams free video clips of global leaders in sustainability. (To) browse a growing archive of internationally renowned names including scientists, environmentalists, politicians, journalists, academics and activists. BPTV is easy to watch. Simply select a speaker, choose a clip and press play (see how to watch tv). (The) video clips can only be watched with Microsoft’s Media Player (can be downloaded on their website).

They write about themselves: Big Picture TV (BPTV) is a free media channel based in London and San Francisco. We stream short talking heads of some of the most renowned pioneers in Sustainable Development and from the environmental, social justice and peace movements. By offering progressive leaders in these inter-related fields a fully independent web-based media platform, we aim to make the big picture a clearer one for the world’s online community. We would very much like to thank our sponsors Green & Black’s and Groovy Gecko, with particular thanks to Craig Moehl at Groovy Gecko for providing us with their excellent streaming services free of charge. We would also like to thank all the speakers who have so generously contributed to the archive. In addition, we want to thank Petica Watson and Simon Levermore for their much valued technical expertise and advice as consultants. Finally, we wish to thank the following people for their kind help and support: (Read the rest on ‘about‘).

Register and Newsletter.

The Public Citizen

Linked with Lori Wallach – USA, with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and with Why Does the WTO Want My Water?

The Public Citizen for Protecting Health, Safety and Democracy. Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress.

The executive branch and the courts:

We have six divisions and two state offices. To learn more about each of the divisions, click on the links below:

… and Texas and California offices:

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