Wageningen Agricultural University organizes postgraduate M.Sc. aquaculture programmes
First world congress on dairy products in human health and nutrition
The major objective of these programmes is to impart advanced knowledge, modern approaches in scientific research, analytical skills and critical attitudes to graduates in animal production and aquaculture for development in their own countries.
The animal science programme is based on the premise that livestock development is constrained by technical aspects as well as by infrastructural, ecological and socioeconomic factors. There are six specializations: Animal Breeding, Animal Husbandry, Tropical Animal Production, Animal Nutrition, Grassland and Forage Science, and Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics.
The major part of the world's fish supply originates from capture fisheries. A stagnation of fisheries production has led to an encouraging increase in aquaculture. The greatest opportunity for growth of aquatic production is in the warm waters of the tropics. This is reflected in the aquaculture programme, which has two specializations: Animal Level, including fish reproduction, fish nutrition and growth, and fish health control; and System Level, including acquacultural management and fisheries management.
The Wageningen M.Sc. programmes begin every year in September and last for 17 months. The entry requirement is a first-degree B.Sc. or equivalent in agricultural or biological sciences. Applicants will be requested to sit for a competitive entrance examination in their country of residence.
Further information can be obtained from the Office for Foreign Students, Wageningen Agricultural University, PO Box 453, 6700 AL Wageningen, the Netherlands.
This important multidisciplinary international meeting which is being organized with the cooperation of the European Communities (EC) will be held in Madrid, Spain, from 7 to 10 June 1993. It will be one of the first meetings, if not the first, to focus specifically on the critical role of dairy products in human nutrition as well as on their impact on public health. For this purpose an extensive scientific programme has been carefully prepared by a large board of experts on the different fields. Topics will include molecular physiology, milk production, biotechnology applied to industrial production and the study of the importance of dairy production.
Further details can be obtained from the Congress Secretariat TILESA, Avenida de Burgos, 39 - 7° izda, 28035 Madrid, Spain. Tel. (34-1) 3026480; Fax (34-1) 7666536.
