Preface

• Editorial

• The ACMAD programme
• OSS activities: current situation
• ORSTOM becomes IRD and is reorganised

• IGBP/IGAC: Building a synthesis electronic book
• RICAMARE: research in global change in the Mediterranean, a Regional network
• SEARCH: training and capacity building for data information in Support of Euro-African collaboration on Research in global CHange
• The african Pollen Data Base (APD): an international scientific network to understand the past and current anvironments of sub-saharan Africa

• The SPOT4 programme and the VEGETATION system
• The NASA earth observation programme and the LANDSAT 7 system

• International symposium: "Satellite-based observation: a tool for the study of the Mediterranean Basin"
  Tunis, 23 - 27 November 1998
• MEDESERT'99 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: synergies in desertification processes in the mediterranean region mechanisms and early warning indicators
  Perpignan, 15 - 19 March 1998
• The Eclat-2 CONCERTED ACTION
  Helsinki, 14 - 16 April 1999
• PRESAO-2Second forum on seasonal outlook in West Africa
  Dakar, 7 - 9 June 1999
• Workshop "Blue Planet, Green Planet"
• Ideal - The international Decade for the East African Lakes
  Arusha, Tanzanie, 10 - 13 january 2000
• JGOFS Open Science Conference 2000

• START fellowship in the Mediterranean and Africa
• MEDIAS Network Web server