The Joint Meeting of EAPR: Section Breeding and varietal assessment and EUCARPIA: Potato Section will be held 26–30 July 2003 at Oulu, Finland. For more information contact Jari Valkonen, President of the Organizing Committee, email: jari.valkonen(at)helsinki.fi

The 87th Annual Meeting of The Potato Association of America, PAA 2003 Back to Tradition will be held 10–14 August 2003 in Spokane, Washington. More information can be found at http://www.paa2003.wsu.edu/index.htm or wsuconf(at)wsu.edu

The XXI Congress of the Latin American Potato Association (ALAP, Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa), V Latin American Seminar on Potato: Use and Commercialization (V Seminario Latinoamericano de la Papa: Uso y Comercialización), X Meeting of the Chilean Potato Association (Asociación Chilena de la Papa, ACHIPA) and II Spanish American Congress on Research and Development of the Potato (II Congreso Iberoamericano sobre Investigación y Desarrollo en Patata) will be held 7–12 March 2004 in Valdivia, Chile. More information can be found at http://uach.cl/alap2004 or contact Andrés Contreras, ALAP President, email acontrer(at)uach.cl

The Sixth Triennial Congress of the African Potato Association Research Development Innovation for Income Generation and Food Security will be held 5–10 April 2004 in Agadir, Morocco. More information can be found at http://www.iavcha.ac.ma/APA/congress.html or contact A. Hanafi, APA President, email: hanafi(at)iavcha.ac.ma