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Working Group on Environmental Justice With support from the Harvard University Provost's Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration, the University Committee on Environment and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
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Working Group on Environmental Justice - Spring 2000 - Public Meeting
Sea Change, Inc.
Program for Water and Health
Working Group on Environmental Justice
and
Harvard University Committee on the Environment
present
"The Genetic Revolution
and
Its Role in Developing Countries"
A Debate
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
Director of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Institute, Chennai (Madras); on Time Magazine’s list of the hundred most influential people of the twentieth century
Dr. Hans Herren
Director of the Insect Physiology and Ecology Center, Nairobi; President, International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences; World Food Prize Laureate
Moderator: Dr Timothy Ford, Program for Water and Health
Respondent: Martha Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., Council for Responsible Genetics
Questions to be discussed will include:
Will opposition to genetically modified crops in the industrialized countries preclude their use in developing countries?
How would the use of agricultural biotechnology affect traditional customs and agricultural practices in developing countries – in particular how might it change the role of women, who do most of the farming?
Are those making decisions in industrial countries sufficiently involving the developing countries in the decision-making process?
Questions will be invited from the Audience
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2000 at 8:00 pm
Harvard University, Science Center, Lecture Hall D
1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: Molly Kile (617) 432- 0272 mkile@hsph.harvard.edu
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