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PublicationsHurrell, R., 2006: Elemental iron for food fortification. HöganäsSymposium, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 6.Jemo, M., 2006: Agronomic management options to increase P use inlow-P soils of Southern Cameroon, NIDECO Colloquium, ETH Zurich,Switzerland, May 11.Kastner, S., 2006: Microbiological aspects of attiéké production:Microbial diversity in the inoculum and its impact on the fermentationprocess. Colloquium of the CSRS, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, August 31.Kastner, S., 2007: Cassava fermentation – Towards the improvementof attiéké quality and safety. International workshop on the potentialof cassava processing in West Africa, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, June 4 – 7.Kreuzer, M., 2006: Potential and constraints for agriculture andlivestock production in agroforestry systems. Trees for PovertyAlleviation, Annual Conference of the Swiss Centre forInternational Agriculture (ZIL), Zurich, Switzerland, June 9.Kreuzer, M., 2007: Mitigation, especially of methane, from livestockby feeding measures. 8 th Interagency Meeting of Pro-PoorLivestock and Animal Health Research Donors, Swiss College ofAgriculture, Zollikofen, Switzerland, June 7 – 8.Kreuzer, M., 2007: Unternutrition: Crossbreds or indigenous Zebubreeds to be preferred? Sustainable livestock-keeping in the tropicsand subtropics – In the suspense between environmental protectionand intensification, Interdisciplinary Day of the Course“Ruminant Science”, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, June 20.Mayer, A. C., 2006: Dieta para vacas criollas en sistemas silvopastorilesnaturales en el bosque montano tucumano-boliviano:observaciones directas, experimentos controlados y análisis bromatológicos.IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Agroforesteria,Varadero, Cuba, October 24 – 28.Mayer, A. C., 2007: Pros and cons of forest grazing in subtropicalmountain forests. Sustainable livestock-keeping in the tropics andsubtropics – In the suspense between environmental protectionand intensification. Interdisciplinary Day of the Course “RuminantScience”, ETH Zurich, June 20Palmer, C., Engel, S., 2006: Designing payments for environmentalservices in the context of weak property rights and commercialinterests. 3 rd World Congress of Environmental and ResourceEconomists, Kyoto, Japan, July 3 – 7.Palmer, C., Engel, S., 2006: Designing payments for environmentalservices with weak property rights and commercial interests.Annual Conference of the International Society of EcologicalEconomics (ISEE), New Delhi, December 15 – 19.Walczyk, T., 2006: Stable isotope techniques for assessing ironabsorption in humans. Regional Training Course on Stable IsotopeTechniques, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 27 – 31.Walczyk, T., 2006: Opening new doors to nutrition research usingstable isotope techniques, National University of Singapore,Singapore, February 7.Walczyk, T., 2006: Effect of calcium and ascorbic acid on ironabsorption from an iron fortified instant drink. Bioavailability2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand, March 7 – 10.Wullschleger, S., 2007: Seasonal dependence of the microbialdiversity in fèné, a spontaneously fermented dairy product of Mali.NIDECO Colloquium, ETH Zurich, May 16.Zeugin, F., 2007: Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a tropicalplantation – Preliminary results. Seminar in Plant Nutrition,ETH Zurich, March.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Interactions of concurrent vitamin A andiodine deficiencies: Effects on the thyroid. Bioavailability 2006Symposium, Chiang Mai, Thailand, March.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Iron fortification reduces blood lead levels inIndian children. FASEB Meeting 2006, Washington DC, USA, April 3.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Iodine nutrition in pregnancy and childhood:An update. American Thyroid Association Spring Meeting,Washington DC, USA, March 24.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Assessing iodine status and monitoringprogress of iodized salt programs: An update. National PediatricConference, Tirana, Albania, June 2.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Vitamin A supplementation in childrenwith poor vitamin A and iron status increases erythropoietin andhemoglobin concentrations without changing total body iron.International Public Health Nutrition Conference, Barcelona,Spain, September 27.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Monitoring iodine nutrition: An update.Russian National Thyroid Congress Moscow, Russia, November 30.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Vitamin A and iron interactions in children.International Nutrition Seminar, Wageningen, TheNetherlands, December 12.Zimmermann, M., 2006: Micronutrient deficiencies in African children:Interactions and public health significance. HabilitationLecture, Zurich, Switzerland, December 5.Doctoral dissertationsZIL funded projectsDällenbach, G., 2006: Diversified cassava agroecosystems for ecologicallysound crop production in the Andean hillsides. Diss. ETHNr. 17002, Supervised by E. Frossard, co-supervised by M. Wolfe,P. Kerridge, M.R. Finck.Velten, G., 2007: Host-plant resistance in dry beans: Implicationsfor tritrophic interactions and hydration properties. Diss. ETH Nr.17012, Supervised by S. Dorn and A. S. Rott.RFPP projectsSell, J., 2006: Decision-making of market actors in the context ofecosystem services from tropical forestry – Criteria, preferencesand expected benefits. Diss. ETH Nr. 16447, Supervised by R. W.Scholz and T. Köllner.Zundel, C., 2006: Of mites and men: Agro-ecological factors affectingthe neotropical predatory mite Typhlodromalus aripo DeLeonand its potential to control the cassava green mite in the mid-altitudesof Cameroon. Doctoral thesis, University of Basel, Supervisedby P. Nagel and U. Scheidegger.Master and diploma thesesZIL funded projectsAufdermauer, T., 2006: Effect of diet type on the composition ofmilk and milk fat of indigenous and Brown Swiss cows kept at highaltitude in Peru. Supervised by K. Bartl and H. R. Wettstein.Bouillot, H., 2006: Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Beweidungsintensitätenauf ausgewählte Baum- und Straucharten in85