Issue No 10, July 1998.

NOTICE: Hard copies of the Australian New Crops Newsletter are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher. Details of availability are included in the Advice on Publications Available.

28. New crop periodicals

Periodical distributed by Pulse Australia for the interest of pulse growers and others in the pulse industry.

For further information contact:
Pulse Australia
PO Box R838
Royal Exchange NSW 1225
Telephone: 02 9247 2033
Facsimile: 02 9247 1158

Or
John Slatter
Pulse Australia Program Manager Crop Support
Telephone: 07 4635 0726
Facsimile: 07 4635 2772

Published quarterly by The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)

This newsletter will be a vehicle for sharing information and monitoring ongoing developments in the carbohydrate economy. The ILSR's Carbo- hydrate Economy project has worked for many years to promote technologies and ideas based on increased use of plant matter for industrial purposes.

Contents for Issue 1: The fiber revolution (kenaf, along with cornstalks, wheat straw and switchgrass, as primary sources for paper and other products), new technology and plant matter, companies on the cutting edge, rules designed to open doors for biological products, hemp, vegetable oils as inks, biochemicals enhancing worker safety, etc.

Future topics: gas from grass cellulose in grasses, garbage, straw and stalks; degradable plastics; North Dakota's state-owned infrastructure and innovative legislative-sponsored develop- ment of manufacturing cooperatives; farmer-owned industries; the phasing out of farm support programs in Canada and the surge of entrepreneurial development in value-added agriculture, global marketing and cooperative formation; privatizing the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization (AARC) Corporation, which has invested more than $30 million to find industrial uses for agricultural materials; European farmer cooperatives looking toward global markets as farm-support programs shift to agricultural manufacturing.

For further information contact:
John Bailey, Research Associate
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
1313 Fifth Street SE
Minneapolis MN 55414 USA
Telephone: 1 612 379 3815
Facsimile: 1 612 379 3920
Email: bailey@ilsr.org
Web Site: http://www.ilsr.org

Sustainable Minnesota Web Site: http://www.me3.org

This newsletter is compiled by Dr Nazmul Haq and Mr Peter Lovett and is published by the International Centre for Underutilized Crops, Southampton, UK

Contents f the March 1998 issue included: organizations concerned with underutilized crops (ICUC, FAO, FAO and Non-wood Forest Products, DIVERSITAS, IPGRI's contribution for conservation and use of neglected and underutilized crop species, The Overseas Development Institute), regional news (ARC-Roodeplaat Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute, specialist crops in South Africa, new crop studies in Southern Africa, AFLORA an on-line database on plant utilization in Africa, underutilized crop R&D in Latin America and Brazil, Tsukuba Medicinal Plant Research Institution, industrialization of 'Plau-Noi' in Thailand, prioritizing minor crops in India), networks (Southern and Eastern Africa Network on Underutilized Crops,
African Ethnobotany Network, Underutilized Tropical Fruits in Asia Network, Network on Promotion of Hybrid Research in Vegetables, PROSEA, Henry Doubleday Research Association, BuroTrop, Plunkett Foundation, Mediterranean Selected Fruits Inter-Country Network, Alternative Crops Technology Interaction Network, Rocket Network, NF-2000 Network, SEPASAL, International Programme for Arid-land Crops), crops news (sheanut tree, Bambara groundnut, indigenous underutilized vege- tables and pulses in South Africa, oil palm expansion in high altitude African rainfed areas, dragon fruit, pummelo, jackfruit, lupins, seabuckthorn, palmyrah fibre, buckwheat, blue honeysuckle), recent meetings, forth- coming events, publications of interest, underutilized crops and the Internet and some useful addresses.

For further information contact:
Dr N Haq
ICUC, Institute for Irrigation and Development Studies
The University of Southampton, Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK
Telephone: 44 1703 594 229
Facsimile: 44 1703 677 519
Email: haq@soton.ac.uk

Back issues and copies of out-of-print articles can be obtained from:
California Rare Fruit Growers
11261 Davenport Rd
Los Alamitos CA 90720 USA

An index of the articles is available at:
http://crfg.org/fg/1969-89/index.html

Prices include postage; foreign orders are sent by surface mail.

Volumes 1 (1969) to 8 (1976): Out of print
Volumes 9 (1977) to 11 (1979): US $10 each; Foreign Surface $11
Volumes 12 (1980) to 15 (1983): US $5 each; Foreign Surface $6
Volumes 16 (1984) to 20 (1988): US $10 each; Foreign Surface $11
Volume 21 (1989): Out of print.

A 20-year index of CRFG Publications (1969-1989), complete with cross-references and descriptions of 250 rare and unusual edible plants is available in printed form:

US $5; Foreign Surface $7.75

CRFG will copy out-of-print articles. The price for copied articles is $0.50 plus $0.15 per page plus $0.25 additional for each group of 6 pages beyond the first six.

Foreign orders should add $0.30 additional postage for each group of 6 pages ordered.

Further details re the California Rare Fruit Growers Inc can be obtained from:
California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc.
The Fullerton Arboretum - CSUF
PO Box 6850
Fullerton CA 92834-6850 USA

or:
Glenn Young, President
California Rare Fruit Growers
238 St. Albans Ave
South Pasadena CA 91030 USA

or:
Alberta Heffron
CRFG Administrative Assistant
11261 Davenport Road
Los Alamitos CA 90720 USA
Telephone/facsimile: 1 562 430 5366
Email: info@crfg.org

http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/pubs/SFNNews/news.htm

Kew Scientist

News from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, which often includes information about ethnobotanical research and related matters.

For further information, contact:
Dr Geoffrey Kite
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond Surrey TW9 3AB UK
Telephone: 44 181 332 5000
Facsimile: 44 181 332 5310
Email: g.kite@rbgkew.org.uk
Web site: http://www.rbgkew.org.uk

This new journal will publish four issues per year, beginning in 1998.

It will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers in industry, academia and government throughout the world can find research results, new ideas, new applications of know-ledge and discussions of important topics that can help them enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the worldwide food and agribusiness system.

The audience encompasses the broad spectrum of food industry leaders world-wide, the periodical will emphasise articles and decision cases that deal with relevant issues confronting the food system and are applications-oriented.

For further information, contact:
The Publishers:
JAI Press Inc
55 Old Post Road No.2, PO Box 1678
Greenwich CT 06836 USA
Telephone: 1 203 661 7602
Facsimile: 1 203 661 0792
Web site: http://www.jaipress.com

The Sponsors:
The International Food and Agribusiness Management
Association (IAMA)
IAMA Business Office
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas A&M University
College Station TX 77843-2124 USA
Telephone: 1 409 845 2118
Facsimile: 1 409 862 1487
Email: iama@tamu.edu
Web site: http://iama.tamu.edu/iama

Membership in IAMA includes a subscription to this journal. Details about IAMA have been included in the section re organisations.

Subscription: $US89 per annum, for individuals plus $US20 surface postage or $US40 airmail.

Issue #15, Autumn 1998 includes articles on St John's Herbs, Herbal books and magazines, Thyme and the Herbal Research Institutes being established at Southern Cross
University, Lismore NSW and at the University of Sydney; the Fragrant Garden has an extensive collection of chilli plants.

For further information contact:
Jan and Michael Bailes
The Fragrant Garden
Portsmouth Road
Erina NSW 2250
Telephone: 02 4367 7322
Facsimile: 02 4365 1979
Price: AUD4 per issue

Published by the Australian Nut Industry Council Inc quarterly

For further information contact:
Editor and producer,
Jennifer Wilkinson
PO Box 1
Dargo Vic 3862
Telephone: 03 5140 1258

Published by the Heritage Seed Curators Association
PO Box 1450, Bairnsdale, Vic 3875

Contents of Issue #10, Harvest 1998: President's 1997 Report (Bill Hankin), Letters, Toora Pear Orchard Report, Australia Bungles Plant Breeders Rights, What Are Heritage Varieties?, Saving Traditional Food Crops, Practical Curator Tips for Beans, An Australian Inventory of Amaranth and Quinoa, Genetic Engineering (Secrets and Lies, Cotton Picking Blues, Techno-Foods, Urgent Action Statement from Genethics Network, HSCA Submission to Food Regulation Review), Seedbank Report, Urgent Growout List, Varieties Banked by HSCA, An Inventory of Quinces in Australia, Resources.

For further information contact:
Bill Hankin
PO Box 1450
Bairnsdale Vic 3875
Telephone: 03 5153 1034
Email: han.HSCA@b150.aone.net.au
Web Site: http://www.agfor.unimelb. edu.au/LCweb/HSCA/HSCA_ home. html

Or:
Deborah Schmetzer
Wombat Manor W-Tree
via Buchan Vic 3885
Telephone: 03 5153 1034 or 03 5155 0202

For further information contact:
Jonathan Harsch
NUC Business Office
PO Box 144
Jamestown RI 02835-0144 USA
Telephone: 1 401 423 0862
Facsimile: 1 401 423 0862
Email: jharsch@edgenet.net

Contact: Dr Rob Fletcher, School of Land and Food, The University of Queensland Gatton College, 4345; Telephone: 07 5460 1311 or 07 5460 1301; Facsimile: 07 5460 1112; International facsimile: 61 7 5460 1112; Email: r.fletcher@mailbox.uq.edu.au

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