Food Security Management Systems book release
CIMO researchers Maria de Fátima Lopes da Silva and Elsa Ramalhosa co-author of the book “Sistemas de Gestão da Segurança Alimentar Guia para a sua implementação em unidades de restauração” edited by Edições Sílabo.
The book deals with the implementation of Food Security Management Systems according to the NP EN ISO 22000:2005 standard in the restaurant industry and will be released May 7 at 17h30 at the Dionísio Gonçalves Auditorium, ESA/IPB.
Fourth WAVES Portugal Wildlife Conference
The Fourth WAVES Wildlife Conference has been announced. The event will take place in Bragança from September 28 to 29, 2012. CIMO is a co-organizer of this conference together with WAVES Portugal and ESA/IPB.
Visit the webpage of the conference HERE.
CIMO Workshop at the EXPO TRÁS-OS-MONTES
CIMO/IPB will lead the workshop on “Research and tradition in excellence products – results” next Saturday, April 21 at 11am at the NERBA auditorium, Bragança, part of the EXPO Trás-os-Montes exhibition and fair. The workshop is based on three themes: safer food, better business; the InovEnergy (Eficiência Energética no Sector Agro-Industrial) project; and the EcoDeep (Eco Eficiência e EcoGestão no sector Agro-Industrial) project.
Other relevant R&D workshops will take place during the event. For complete information visit the website of EXPO EXPO Trás-os-Montes.
COLOSS BEEBOOK
The research network COLOSS announced the publication by late 2012 of the “BEEBOOK: standard methodologies for Apis mellifera research”, edited by Vincent Dietemann and Peter Neumann from the Swiss Bee Research Centre, Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux, and James D. Ellis from the University of Florida, USA.
LABinCIMO Construction: Day 1
The construction of LABinCIMO laboratory facilities has just started. “Polo 1”, the first unit of the complex to be built, will be located in an original building of the Quinta de Sta Apolónia to be fully reconstructed. It will house CIMO headquarters and the soil and fertility laboratories, including an atomic absorption room.
CIMO at the Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference
CIMO participated at the Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference in London. This conference was organized to provide scientific leadership towards the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Rio de Janeiro this coming June. Read the State of the Planet Declaration issued at the conference or visit the website of the conference for Policy Briefs and other information.
In this conference CIMO presented the poster "Land Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Portuguese Mountains: Two Sides of the Same Coin" in the Global Biodiversity session.