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Agriculture, the Fuel for Sustainable Economic Development
12:00 noon
February 28, 2008
Rayburn House Office Building Rooms B-339/40, Washington, D.C.
(enter on Independence Avenue)
An Educational Event of
The Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD),
the Borlaug Institute of Texas A&M University,
the Riley Memorial Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
National Agricultural Library (USDA/NAL)
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Participants check in and view sponsors' exhibits
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| 12:00 pm |
Box lunches for registrants, doors open
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12:10 pm |
Introduction -- Robert J. Haggerty, President, AIARD, and Chairperson of the Forum/Lecture, with Edwin C. Price, Director, Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, Texas A&M University; Richard Ridgway, Secretary-Treasurer, Riley Memorial Foundation; and Susan McCarthy, Senior Analyst, Strategic Scientific Initiatives, USDA/NAL
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12:20 pm |
Welcome -- Congressman Chet Edwards, Democrat, 17th District, TX. Chairman, Appropriations Subcommittee, Military Construction and Veteran Affairs; member of the Appropriations Subcommittees for Homeland Security and for Energy and Water
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| 12:30 pm |
The Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture: “Agriculture for Sustainable Economic Development” - Joachim von Braun, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
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| 1:00 pm |
“A Perspective from the 2008 World Development Report (WDR)” - Robert Townsend, Senior Economist, Africa Region, World Bank who contributed a chapter to the WDR
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| 1:15 pm |
“Information's Contributions to Agriculture and Progress in Developing Nations” - Janet K. Poley, President, American Distance Education Consortium
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| 1:30 pm |
“Benefits to the United States of Sustainable Economic Progress in Developing Countries” - USDA Under Secretary Mark Keenum, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services
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| 1:45 pm |
Questions/comments and closing by Robert J. Haggerty
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