March 29th, 7pm at Carroll College in Helena, Montana - 102 O'Connell Hall
March 30th, 3:30 at U of Montana, Missoula - Social Sciences 356
April 5th at noon at UBC (U of British Columbia), Vancouver, Canada - Mulitpurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Drive
April 5th at 3:30 at Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, Canada - Room 3260, West Mall Complex, SFU Burnaby
April 6th at 6pm at Seattle University - Wyckoff Auditorium, Engineering 200
April 11th at 6:30 at Pacific University, in Forest Grove (outside of Portland, OR) at the CLIC in Scott Hall
April 12th at noon at Portland State University - Multicultural Center
April 13th at 6pm at U of Oregon, Eugene - at the Mills International Center
April 19th at 7pm at UC Berkeley, 159 Mulford Hall
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Feb 25th, 5:00 -- North Carolina State University at Campus Cinema Witherspoon, Washington Sankofa Room, Cates Avenue, Raleigh, NC
Feb 28th, 6pm -- University of North Florida, Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL
March 3rd, 2:30 and 6:00pm - Savannah State University, 115 Social Science Building, for more information call SSU Politial Science Department at 912-358-3221
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Time: 7pm, finish around 9pm
Where: Bow Valley College 332 6 Ave se, Calgary in room 241
Panelists: Tim Klein, one of the producers/directors of "What are we doing here?", Paul Gomes of the Fig Tree Foundation, Anna Kae Todd from Bow Valley College
Free and open to the public.
]]>Thursday, November 4 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm
College of Charleston Education Center Room 116
More info at:
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163431233675437
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Jacqueline Novogratz has helped reinvent the landscape of global aid and development by bringing the notion of "patient capitalism" to the world's economic table. Her Acumen Fund has an increasingly influential profile charting a third way between investment for profit and aid for free. Click here to listen to the radio program
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Also, Oxfam America is working hard to build support for USAID reform - click here to follow their efforts
In Minnesota and other midwest states in the U.S. the average farmer uses 100 kilograms of chemical fertilizer per hectare and the average farmer in Kenya uses only 7 kilograms per hectare. Less fertilizer is better for the environment. The question is how to have a "green revolution" in Africa without the environmental problems. Dr. Chinkunutha, the economist turned farmer who appears in "What are we doing here?" says organic agriculture is the way to go? Now the Malawian government is getting results by subsidising chemical fertilizer to it's countries farmers. Either way, we need to end the way we give out food aid as that has a direct negative effect on African farmers - click here for more information on food aid/African farmers.
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*photo from Acumen Fund
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