Title
Rockerfeller Foundation letter from Gordon Conway to Dr Doug Parr at Greenpeace
Reference
MS/2153/03/11
Production date
22-01-2001 - 22-01-2001
Creator
- Conway, GordonBiographyBiography
Conway, Gordon Richard (b 1938) entomologist
Gordon Conway trained in agricultural ecology, attending the universities of Bangor, Cambridge, West Indies (Trinidad) and California (Davis). In the 1960’s he was a pioneer of sustainable agriculture developing integrated pest management programs for the State of Sabah in Malaysia. He joined Imperial College in 1970 setting up the Centre for Environmental Technology in 1976. In the 1970s and 1980s he lived and worked extensively in Asia and the Middle East, for the Ford Foundation, World Bank and USAID.
He directed the Sustainable Agriculture Programme at IIED and then became representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi. Subsequently he became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and Chair of IDS. From 1998-2004 he was President of the Rockefeller Foundation and from 2004- June 2009 Chief Scientific Adviser to DFID and President of the Royal Geographical Society.
Sir Gordon leads the Agriculture for Impact programme at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, advocating for more European government support for agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Extent
1 item
Language
English
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Associated people and organisations
- Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission
- Hails, RosemaryBiographyBiography
(active 1982) Science Director
Professor Hails recieved a BA Honours in Zoology from Oxford University and a MSc in Applied Entomology and PhD in insect population ecology from Imperial College London. In addition to her role as science director at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology she is a senior research associate of Oxford University and a frequent visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University. In June 2000, Hails was awarded an MBE for services to environmental research. In her role at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology since 1992 Professor Hails has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers.
In 2012, Professor Hails was appointed to the Government’s Natural Capital Committee. Along with this, she also chairs the Natural Capital Initiative, a forum which focuses on how to apply the Ecosystem Approach to water and management of land.
- Rockefeller FoundationBiographyBiography
The Rockefeller Foundation’s aim from the beginning was to promote and strive for the well-being of humanity throughout the world. The Rockefeller Foundation works with trust and communities around the globe to try to solve the world’s most challenging problems, particulally for the societies that have the least.
During the GM crops deabtes they supported biotechnology as a means of helping to solve world hunger in poor and developing countires such as those affected in Africa. Launched in 2006, the Alliance for Green Revolution (AGRA) was focused on targeting African farmers, aiming to help them double their yield and provide an income for their families.
- Greenpeace
Subject
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