Pardee Center’s First Seminar to be Held Abroad

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is co-sponsoring its first “Pardee Seminar” to be held abroad. The seminar, on “Future Challenges: Food and Development”, will be hosted in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan’s leading think tank. It will take place on Monday, December 22, 2008 at SDPI in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The seminar will feature a discussion panel including Dr. Adil Najam (Director, Pardee Center), Dr. Abid Suleri (Executive Director, SDPI), and Mr. Sahib-e-Haq (Head, Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Unit, World Food Program, Islamabad). The seminar will focus on the intrinsic links between food stress and sustainable development at both the macro and micro levels, in particular in the context of the agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD).

The Pardee Seminar Series focuses on a variety of interdisciplinary issues and invites experts from different disciplines to discuss the long-range challenges and trends in that particular issue. This co-sponsored event exhibits the Center’s desire to work with developing country partners striving to bring change in the areas of the Center’s interests. The Center hopes to co-host similar events in other countries too. This seminar is part of the Center’s new initiative on Food and Sustainable Development, which is supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Food Quality (LNV).

The regular monthly lunch seminar series held at Pardee House on the Boston University campus will resume in January 2009.