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Start Date & Time
October 8, 2008
1:00 PM

End Date & Time
October 10, 2008
3:30 PM

Location
Marshall McLuhan Hall - University of Manitoba
Manitoba, Canada

Event Cost
FREE

Event URL
http://umanitoba.ca/facultie...

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Categories
Environment
Health
Globalization

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Wed, Oct 8, 1:30 pm
SEMINAR
Institute for the Humanities
409 Tier Building Abetment to Suicide: The Agrarian Depression in India in the Era of Economic Reforms, 1991 to The Present
Utsa Patnaik
Professor of Economics
Centre for Economic Studies and Planning
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

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Thurs, Oct 9, 7:30 pm
PUBLIC LECTURE
Room 270, Engineering and Information Technology Complex 3 Intensifying Hunger in the Global South: What Lies Behind the Current Food Crisis?
Utsa Patnaik
Professor of Economics
Centre for Economic Studies and Planning
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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Fri, Oct 10, 9:30 - 11:30am
PUBLIC LECTURE
Marshall McLuhan Room,
Room 204 University Centre Food, Globalization, and the Agrarian Question
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Department of International Development Studies
Trent University
The Myth of Corporate Efficiency and Competition and Their Real Effects on the Food Crisis
Fred Tate, National Farmers Union
Farms south of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
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Fri, Oct 10, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
PUBLIC LECTURE
Marshall McLuhan Room
Room 204 University Centre Feeding a Hungry Planet

Martin Entz
Professor of Agronomy and Cropping Systems
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba

James Frey
Research Assistant,
Department of Plant Science
University of Manitoba

Having our cake and eating it too: a bio-social-economic model for a new agricultural era
Rene Van Acker,
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Plant Agriculture
University of Guelph



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David Imanuel Sihombing
David Imanuel Sihombing



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