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	<title>JLDuval Consulting - Consulting / Services / Advice Agency</title>
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	<modified>2010-07-30T11:30:45Z</modified>
	<author>
		<name>Jean-Louis Duval</name>
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	<copyright>Copyright 2010, Jean-Louis Duval</copyright>
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		<title>Seed Alliance Without Boundary [SAWIB]</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Development of the Seed Alliance without Boundary Intitiative.<br /><br />You can donwload the draft presentation from this link here under.<br /><img src="images/sawib2.JPG" width="444" height="336" border="0" alt="" /> <br /><a href="http://jlduval.com/pdf/SAWIB_090824.pdf" target="_blank" >Download the pdf file</a> ]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry090824-105938</id>
		<issued>2009-08-24T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2009-08-24T00:00:00Z</modified>
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	<entry>
		<title>A new Secreatry General for ANSOR - Afghanistan</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mr. Ziauddin PAIMAN has joined ANSOR as Secretary General<br />The President Saidajan ABDIANI wishes him success for strengthening the newly established organization.<br />]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry090622-175554</id>
		<issued>2009-06-22T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2009-06-22T00:00:00Z</modified>
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		<title>ECOSA: a new regional seed association is borned</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Committee Meeting on the Establishment of the ECO Seed Association was held on March 14-16, 2009 in Antalya. The delegates from the ECO Member States except Turkmenistan and representatives of FAO and ICARDA as well as of ECO Secretariat attended the Meeting.<br />National Seed Associations from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey have applied to be founding members. <br />3 associate members (seed companies) from Iran and Turkey are founders too. <br /><img src="images/ecoantalya2009.JPG" width="512" height="384" border="0" alt="" /><br />Antalya]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry090315-145839</id>
		<issued>2009-03-15T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2009-03-15T00:00:00Z</modified>
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	<entry>
		<title>Women at work</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[ <b>Winter Nurcery in Senegal</b> <br /><br />After a decade of efforts, the production of seeds in Senegal has reached a significant development.<br />More than 50 isolation plots of sunfower and maize production has been sawned and harvested in 2008-09.<br />Women were a major part of the success with the professional support of Aly DIOP and Gérard WARTRAUX.<br /><br /> <img src="images/womenatwork.JPG" width="448" height="336" border="0" alt="" /> ]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry090218-143047</id>
		<issued>2009-02-18T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2009-02-18T00:00:00Z</modified>
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	<entry>
		<title>Seasons greetings</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<center> <b>2008 was a very good year with many new friends and adventures</b><br /><br /><img src="images/2008.480.480.jpg" width="480" height="480" border="0" alt="" />  <br /> <b>Happy New Year 2009</b> <br />Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année 2009<br />Feliz natal e um prospero ano novo para todos<br />Feliz Navidad y Prospero Anno Nuevo<br />Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo<br />Frõhliche Weihnachten und ein gutes Neues Jahr<br />Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year<br />Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar<br />Kellemes karacsonyi es boldog uj evet kivanok<br />Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku<br />Multu Yillar</center>]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry081230-093853</id>
		<issued>2008-12-30T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2008-12-30T00:00:00Z</modified>
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	<entry>
		<title>Agro Consultants Network</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Jean-Louis Duval joins AGRO CONSULTANTS<br />Agro Consultants is a network of consultants all graduated from high level agrotechnology or agrobusiness European Institutes or Universities.<br />They operate as independant free-lances or managers of small units entirely devoted to consulting work.<br />Most of them have a previous experience as executive managers of divisions or subsidiaries of large agro business companies. <br /> <img src="images/agroconsultants.png" width="512" height="134" border="0" alt="" /> ]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry081110-211354</id>
		<issued>2008-11-10T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2008-11-10T00:00:00Z</modified>
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		<title>Afghanistan National Seed Association</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Afghanistan National Seed Association hold is founding General Assembly Meeting Saturday 18 October 2008.<br />The board of 9 directors has been elected.<br />More than 100 people have attended the meeting and 32 members have joined the association including two associared members.<br /><br />The board of directors has elected his president: Mr. Saidajan ABDIANI during his meeting 20 October 2008.<br /><br />More information on <a href="http://www.afghanseed.org" target="_blank" >www.afghanseed.org</a><br /><br />  <b><center>Photos: Scrutinizers - Logo - The new board of Directors</center></b><br />    <img src="images/scrutinizers.JPG" width="160" height="120" border="0" alt="" />  <img src="images/logo_ansa.jpg" width="160" height="82" border="0" alt="" />  <img src="images/ansa_bod.JPG" width="160" height="120" border="0" alt="" /><br /> <center>The president Saidajan ABDIANI<br /> <img src="images/saidajanabdani_sml.JPG" width="160" height="120" border="0" alt="" /> ]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry081018-182457</id>
		<issued>2008-10-18T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2008-10-18T00:00:00Z</modified>
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		<title>Inauguration of the National Seed Secretariat of Afghanistan</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The new National Seed Secretariat is situated in close proximity to the Central Seed Testing Laboratory in Kabul and accommodates the apex institutions for coordinating seed industry functions in Afghanistan, comprising the National Seed Board and its affiliated bodies namely the Variety Release Committee, the Seed and Plant Health Inspectorate, the Seed Certification Agency, and the Afghanistan National Seed Association. The National Seed Board will be proclaimed upon ratification of the Seed Law, which is currently at parliament level for consideration. The Seed Board will function as the highest body in the seed sector with overall oversight for the management of the national seed programme and having autonomy and freedom to carry out its functions.<br />[From FAO press release]<br /> <img src="images/NSS.JPG" width="160" height="120" border="0" alt="" />  <img src="images/NSSJLD.JPG" width="160" height="120" border="0" alt="" /> ]]></content>
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		<issued>2008-10-16T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2008-10-16T00:00:00Z</modified>
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		<title>Kazakhstan and Intellectual property</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[During a recent visit to Kazakhstan the question of royalties implementation and collection has been raised during many different meetings with members of the Ministry of Agriculture.<br />A member of Kazagroinnovations said:  <i>&quot;As for the position of Minagri, it was a request of the current minister of agriculture to develop such a system. What we will do this year: we will study European and Australian systems and then have a meeting with the Minister and aprove our concept on how we should proceed...&quot;</i> <br /><br />Kazakhstan is still not a member of UPOV but there is a Kazakh Law on plant protection.<br />Will this royalty issue will drive Kazakhstan to apply for UPOV membership, this is not known currently? <img src="images/astana.JPG" width="160" height="120" border="0" alt="" /> ]]></content>
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		<issued>2008-09-29T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2008-09-29T00:00:00Z</modified>
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		<title>Specterra Services</title>
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		<content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[ <b>Precision Viticulture and Agriculture <br />Plantation and Native Forest Management <br />Environmental Monitoring </b><br /> <br />SpecTerra is Australia&#039;s leading provider of airborne remote sensing imagery for vegetation mapping and monitoring projects. We specialise in the acquisition, processing and analysis of high quality, high resolution Digital Multi-Spectral Imagery.<br /><br /> <b>SALES REPRESENTATIVE AGREEMENT</b> <br />A Sales Representative Agreement was made and entered on June 8, 2008, by and between Specterra, an Australian corporation, and JLDuval Consulting for FRANCE<br /><br />A first significant contract for more than 500 ha to generate the Plant Cell Density and NDVI images for vine canopy pixels has been done.]]></content>
		<id>http://jlduval.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080725-163848</id>
		<issued>2008-07-25T00:00:00Z</issued>
		<modified>2008-07-25T00:00:00Z</modified>
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