[searcabic] NEWS FLASH: SEARCA invites media practitioners to a workshop on impact assessment and biofuels

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*Posted 26 February 2009*

*SEARCA INVITES MEDIA PRACTITIONERS* TO A WORKSHOP ON IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND
BIOFUELS* <http://www.searca.org/web/news/2008/dec/web/08.html>

The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in
Agriculture (SEARCA) <http://www.searca.org/> is pleased to invite
applications to participate in its workshop for media practitioners titled,
*“Understanding Impact
Assessment: the Biofuel Challenge"*, on 26-27 March 2009 at SEARCA, Los
Baños, Laguna, Philippines.

The workshop will accept 20-25 media practitioners from the different
regions in the Philippines. It will review basics on impact assessment and
data interpretation, and then allow participants to apply impact assessment
literacy to evaluating options in biofuel development. It will also provide
the framework for building awareness and understanding on the emerging
biofuel industry, on the technologies to be developed and managed, on the
policy and regulatory issues, and on socioeconomic development challenges.

The workshop topics include an overview of the biofuels industry in the
Philippines; overview of impact assessment; biofuel production and its
effects on social and economic environments in the Philippines; interpreting
and communicating biofuels impact assessment results; developing messages on
impact assessment and biofuels; and insights, issues and experiences from
public and private sector research and development on biofuels.

The program of activities of the workshop and an application form are
attached to this invitation. Interested participants may send accomplished
application forms on or before *8 March 2009* to *Dr. Maria Celeste H. Cadiz
*, SEARCA Training Manager <mchc at agri.searca.org>, fax (63-49) 436-2283, or
telephone (63-49) 536-2365 to 67 (local 125/173) to enable her group to
notify accepted applicants by 12 March 2009. For additional information and
forms, visit the following link at the SEARCA website:

http://www.searca.org/web/training/courses/2009/biofuel_ia/

or email/call *Ms. Nova A. Ramos*, Training Associate <nea at agri.searca.org>
at the same telephone numbers.


**Open for Philippine-based media practitioners only. *

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