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Fall 2009 IAD Seminar Series
FALL SEMINAR SCHEDULE
The Fall Seminar Series on Financing African Development: Economic and Humanitarian Aid and Sustainable Development in Africa has flown by; our last speaker for the semester is Ken Davies, Coordinator of the Purchase for Progress Initiative, UN World Food Program. Join us this week to hear his discussion on Connecting Small-holder Farmers to Markets: the WFP Purchase for Progress Initiative.
Ken Davies is the Coordinator of the World Food Program Purchase for Progress Initiative. Most recently he has been WFP Representative and Country Director in Mozambique (2006-2009), Uganda (2001-2006), Cambodia (1996-2000), Swaziland (1993-1996) and India (Advisor 1989-1993). Prior to joining WFP he was Band Aid -- Live Aid Representative for Sudan, Tigray and Eritrea based in Khartoum, Agricultural Coordinator for Save the Children in western Sudan, Director of the NYC GreenThumb and Open Spaces Reclamation programs, an Agricultural Extension agent for Cornell Cooperative Extension, and a farmer.
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