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National Institute of Crop Science. Tokio Imbe moved up from the Rice Breeding Laboratory to replace Dr. Ikeda. Dr. Ikeda was a plant breeder at IRRI in 1988-93, as was Dr. Imbe in 1993-98. Harding is based in Brussels and hosted by the European Commission. Meine van Noordwijk was confirmed in May as the Los Baos-based Southeast Asia regional coordinator for the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF). A Dutch national, Dr. van Noordwijk joined ICRAF in 1993 and became principal soil scientist in 1997, with particular attention to developing and refining agroforestry alternatives to slashand-burn agriculture. Info Finder is a unique searchable website jointly launched recently by the CGIAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The site, which can be reached from the home page of either the CGIAR (www.cgiar.org) or the FAO (www.fao.org), allows users to search online material from Future Harvest, the CGIAR and the FAOs World Agricultural Information Center (WAICENT) all at once. WARDAs Board of Trustees reported in April that an intensive two-month investigation had found no case or evidence of fraud or corruption that supports anonymous allegations made to the World Bank against the West Africa Rice Development Association and its director general.
Rice Today September 2002