Innovations and Innovators: New Technologies, Agricultural Productivity, and Women's Empowerment
This roundtable looked at successful and sustainable agricultural innovations used to enhance productivity and women's income-generating...
Speakers: Martin Fisher, Kickstart International
Pedro Sanchez, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Presider: Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations
June 1, 2011
This roundtable, part of the ExxonMobil Women and Development Series, looked at successful and sustainable agricultural innovations used to enhance productivity and women's income-generating abilities in the developing world.
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