CTA institutional publications

Spore / Esporo

CTA publishes a 16-page agricultural and rural development magazine, Spore, in English and French, and a Portuguese edition, Esporo. Spore/Esporo is produced six times a year in print and electronic format. The electronic version can be downloaded from the Website. The magazine's aims are:

to inform readers about developments in the ACP agriculture and rural sectors in all ACP regions;
to provide balanced coverage in terms of CTA's priority information themes;
to promote awareness of information sources and new training opportunities;
to provide a platform for exchanging scientific and technical information;
to act as a link between CTA and its partner organisations;
to provide information on CTA's activities and outputs, including publications.

In each issue there are three feature articles, brief news items, reports on CTA activities, reviews of books and other information products, readers' letters, information sources, announcements of courses and conferences, and an invited contribution ('Viewpoint'). Most of the material is obtained from anglophone and francophone sources. The content of Esporo is drawn mainly from Spore. Sometimes, material generated in Portuguese for Esporo is published in Spore. People in ACP countries are encouraged to use Spore/Esporo articles in their local publications, so long as they acknowledge the source.

Spore/Esporo is produced by a consortium of English, French and Portuguese consultants, working with ACP journalists. The consortium was chosen through a process of competitive bidding, and meets with CTA staff every 2 months to determine the content of each issue.

Through the Publications Distribution Service (PDS), subscriptions to Spore/Esporo are available free-of-charge to individuals and organisations in ACP and EU countries working in ACP agricultural and rural development. Those not eligible can purchase a subscription to Spore/Esporo through the Centre's commercial distributor.

Spore is now broadcast daily via satellite, as part of a strategy to make it more widely and more quickly available. It is transmitted through the WorldSpace radio network (see Spore No.100).

Contact: vandreck@cta.int

Other institutional publications

The aim of CTA's institutional publications is to make information needed by ACP partners more readily available. For these publications, CTA bears the full production costs. They are available in print format and can also be downloaded from the CTA Website.

Apart from Spore/Esporo, the main institutional publications are the Annual Report, seminar proceedings and syntheses, study visit reports and a Publications Catalogue. Sometimes the Centre also publishes titles stemming from an area or activity of major interest to ACP countries; an example of this is Information Revolutions, published in 2001 in English and French.

Contact: vandreck@cta.int

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