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Making Science and Technology Work for the Poor

8 November 2005 17:00-18:00 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

  • At this event, George Rothschild and Ian Scoones discussedthe importance of technology in Sub-Saharan Africa, increasing agricultural output and reducing poverty, and how this can be complemented by technological governance.

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    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
    Ian Scoones, Professor and Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
    Chair:
    John Battle, MP

     

  • An ODI, All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development and Future Agricultures Consortium public event in the Agriculture in Africa: An Effective Route out of Poverty? series.

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