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ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS
HOUSE OF COMMONS, LONDON SW1A 0AA
Chair: John Battle MP; Vice-Chairs: Tony Baldry MP, Baroness Whitaker;
Secretary: Baroness Northover; Treasurer: Ann McKechin MP
Executive Committee: Tom Clarke MP, Lord Dubs, Mike Gapes MP, Cheryl
Gillan MP, Peter Luff MP
Meetings (click
on the title for presentations, audio and photos)
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The
DAC Peer Review of the UK
Speakers: Richard Manning, Chair, DAC, OECD and Rt
Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International Development.
Chair: Rt Hon John Battle MP, Chair, APGOOD
Tuesday 20th June 2006, 5.00-6.00PM, Wilson Room, Portcullis House
'DAC Peer Review of the UK' - Main
Findings and Recommendations
Agriculture in Africa: An Effective
Route out of Poverty?
This autumn, in a year when Africa has been in the forefront of
concerns ranging from the G8 to Tony Blair’s Commission, APGOOD
is hosting a new meetings series on the topic: Agriculture in Africa:
An Effective Route out of Poverty?
The meeting series concluded at the House of Commons on 14th December
with Natural
Resource Abundance: Obstacle to Development or Harnessing Wealth
for Development?
Speakers: Patrick Alley, Global Witness and Arthur
Neiland, Institute for Sustainable Development and Aquatic Resources
(IDDRA).
Wednesday 7 December (2.00–3.00pm). The
presentation in APGOOD by the Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Hilary
Benn MP, of the new DFID Agriculture Policy Paper.
This development policy paper highlights the central role which
HMG gives to agriculture in stimulating pro-poor growth in developing
countries, emphasises its extensive linkages with the wider economy
in developing countries, lays out the principles underlying the
policy and identifies seven priority areas for action and future
funding.
Supermarkets
and Standards
23 November (2pm-3pm at Portcullis House)
David Gregory, Head of Food Technology, Marks and Spencer
plc. and and Dr William Vorley, International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED)
Making
Science and Technology Work for the Poor
Tuesday 8 November
Speakers: George Rothschild, former Director-General
of the International Rice Research Institute and former Chief Scientific
Adviser to the Minister for Overseas Development, Australian Federal
Government and Ian Scoones, Professor and Research Fellow,
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Alternative
visions for agricultural growth in Africa: What should governments
and markets do?
Tuesday 1 November
Speakers: Andrew Dorward, Imperial-at-Wye, University
of London and Professor Thom Jayne, Michigan State University
New
approches to land for agricultural growth and poverty reduction
Tuesday 25 October 2005
Speakers: Dr Klaus Deininger of the World Bank and
Dr Camilla Toulmin, Director of IIED and a member of the
EU Taskforce on Land (Dr John Farrington, ODI Research Fellow
spoke instead of Dr Klaus Deininger who was not able to attend at
the last minute but we have Dr Deininger's presentation)
Is agriculture still relevant to poverty reduction in africa?
Monday 17 October 2005
Speakers: Peter Hazell, Director, Development Strategy and
Government Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI) and Professor Paul Collier, Director, Centre for
the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, and former Head
of Research at the World Bank
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The following meetings do not form part of the series: Agriculture
in Africa: An Effective Route out of Poverty?
They were organised jointly by ODI and the
All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development.
A Meeting to launch Tom Clarke
MP's private member's bill: The International Development (Reporting
and Transparency) Bill
Wednesday 30 November 2005 3-4 pm
A
US Perspective on Development Policy in 2005 and Beyond
Wednesday 12 October 2005
Speaker: Andrew Natsios, Administrator of USAID (to
November 2005).
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Wednesday 7 December (2.00–3.00pm). The
presentation in APGOOD by the Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Hilary
Benn MP, of the new DFID Agriculture Policy Paper.
This development policy paper highlights the central role which
HMG gives to agriculture in stimulating pro-poor growth in developing
countries, emphasises its extensive linkages with the wider economy
in developing countries, lays out the principles underlying the
policy and identifies seven priority areas for action and future
funding.
Supermarkets
and Standards
23 November (2pm-3pm at Portcullis House)
David Gregory, Head of Food Technology, Marks and Spencer
plc. and and Dr William Vorley, International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED)
Making
Science and Technology Work for the Poor
Tuesday 8 November
Speakers: George Rothschild, former Director-General
of the International Rice Research Institute and former Chief Scientific
Adviser to the Minister for Overseas Development, Australian Federal
Government and Ian Scoones, Professor and Research Fellow,
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Alternative
visions for agricultural growth in Africa: What should governments
and markets do?
Tuesday 1 November
Speakers: Andrew Dorward, Imperial-at-Wye, University
of London and Professor Thom Jayne, Michigan State University
New
approches to land for agricultural growth and poverty reduction
Tuesday 25 October 2005
Speakers: Dr Klaus Deininger of the World Bank and
Dr Camilla Toulmin, Director of IIED and a member of the
EU Taskforce on Land (Dr John Farrington, ODI Research Fellow
spoke instead of Dr Klaus Deininger who was not able to attend at
the last minute but we have Dr Deininger's presentation)
Is agriculture still relevant to poverty reduction in africa?
Monday 17 October 2005
Speakers: Peter Hazell, Director, Development Strategy and
Government Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI) and Professor Paul Collier, Director, Centre for
the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, and former Head
of Research at the World Bank
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