Location: AGLS 115 Time: 1pm-2pm Friday, 4/26:
In
his seminar lecture on April 26, Dr. Belay E. Begashaw will discuss
Texas A&M University’s role in the Sustainable Development Solutions
Network.
The SDSN is a new
initiative that combines scientific and technical expertise from
academia, civil society and the private sector around the world. The
initiative endeavors to alleviate global poverty and hunger
in the face of a world population approaching 9 billion people by 2050.
The SDSN is intended to
carry on the work still left following the Millennium Development
Goals, a UN program ending 2015 that has seen success mitigating extreme
poverty and hunger around the world.
Dr. Begashaw is director of the Columbia University Global Center for Africa.
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