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Forthcoming: 

Date

Meeting

14-20 September 2003, Edinburgh (Scotland) Tropical Savannas & Seasonally Dry Forests: an International Conference on the Ecology, Environment and Development of Tropical Savannas.
21-24 September 2003, Exeter, (UK) 12th Nitrogen Workshop,"Controlling N flows and losses". Workshop organized by Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research, Devon (UK).
22-27 August 2004, Cancún (Mexico) 10th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME).
30 August-3 September 2004, Rouen (France) 14th International Congress on Soil Zoology and Ecology (ICSZ). For more information contact: Thibaud Decaens and Patrick Lavelle
October 2004, Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) 16th Latin American Congress of Soil Science (Congreso Latinoamericano de la Ciencia del Suelo). For more information contact: Dr. Edgar Amézquita


Past meetings: 

Date

Meeting

11-15 August 2003 II World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. Iguazú falls, Paraná. Brazil.
August 2003, Montreal (Canada) 4th International Conference on Mycorrhizae (ICOM4).
7-10 July 2003, UK Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society on Biotic Interactions in the Tropics: their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity. University of Aberdeen.
23-29 May 2003, Quebec (Canada) Fourth International Meeting on Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold. For more info contact: Annick Bertrand, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
11-14 May 2003, California (USA) Ninth Biennial Conference of the Soil Ecology Society entitled: Invasive Species and Soil Ecology.
25-28 March 2003, Rome (Italy) OECD expert meeting on soil erosion and soil biodiversity indicators. Accesible only through the OECD password protected website. Further information.
25-27 March 2003, UK Annual Symposium on Soil Biodiversity and Function. University of Lancaster.
10-14 March 2003, Montreal (Canada) 8th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-8) to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
2-9 February 2003, Cuba Organic Agriculture Tour, organized by Institute for Bioregional Studies. More info on: http://www.macqueens.com/ibs
2-6 December 2002 20th conference of the Soil Science Society of East Africa (SSSEA), Mbale, Uganda. For more info: http://www.sssea.4t.com
23-25 October 2002

“XI Reunión Latinoamericana de Fisiología Vegetal.” Punta del Este. Uruguay. For more information contact: Victor Martín, Faculty of Science, Uruguay.

October 2002 Reunión Latinoamericana de Rhizobiología (RELAR).Mexico.
1-6 September 2002 7th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology, ISEE7. Cardiff (Wales).
14-21 August 2002 17th World Congress on Soil Science, 17th WCSS. Bangkok (Thailand).
13-19 July 2002 International Workshop on "Anthropogenic Terra Preta Soils". Manaus (Brazil). For more info: Terra Preta website.
24-27 June 2002 International Technical Workshop on "Biological Management of Soil Ecosystems for Sustainable Agriculture", FAO/EMBRAPA. For more info: http://www.cnpso.embrapa.br/workshopfao/
February or March 2002 Latin American and the Caribbean Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity. Sponsored by CBD.
Late February 2002 Brazil, Proyecto CYTED PIP XII.3. Diversidad de la Macrofauna de Invertebrados en el Suelo: Implicaciones ecológicas.
3-7 December 2001 Soil Macrofauna: an endagered resource in a changing world. Project IBOY/MACROFAUNA. Séminaire n° II, held at IRD-Bondy (France). For more information: Patrick Lavelle
12-16 November 2001 Seventh Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-7) to the CBD. Montreal, Canada. This led to COP VI decission on the Soil Biodiversity Initiative. Information document 7/INF/11 on Soil Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture.
8-10 November 2001 International Symposium: Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems. Montreal, Canada. Organized by UNU in collaboration with International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and CBD Secretariat
1-5 October 2001 I World Congress on Conservation Agriculture: A worlwide challenge. Madrid. Spain. Contact: conservation.agriculture@ecaf.org
17-21 September 2001 African Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity. Maputo, Mozambique. Sponsored by CBD.

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