TWAS's activities at Trieste Next

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How will innovation in bioscience help to feed Africa and other 
developing regions? Segenet Kelemu, an influential African research 
leader, will provide a look at state-of-the-art African agriculture at a 
TWAS round table Friday evening, the first day of Trieste Next 2015.

The TWAS round table – /Ask Africa: Can agribiotech make a difference 
for developing countries/? – also will feature bioscience researchers 
Michele Morgante from Udine and Alessandro Vitale from Milan. It will 
begin at 18:00 in the elegant Palazzo della Regione, Piazza 
Unitàd'Italia 1. Admission is free, and Italian-English translation will 
be provided.

Segenet Kelemu is the director general and CEO of the International 
Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology's (icipe 
<http://www.icipe.org/>) in Nairobi, Kenya. She will kick-start TWAS's 
event at the openings of the fourth edition of Trieste Next, the annual 
European Fair of Scientific Research, which runs from 25 to 27 September 
in Trieste.

Kelemu will explore how genetic modification of crops can help feed 
Africa and other developing regions through concrete examples of 
/sustainable biotechnology/. She is the 2014 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in 
Science Awards Laureate for Africa and the Arab States.

Along with Kelemu, the other two scientists will examine the frontiers 
of agricultural biotechnology by examining the role of agribiotech 40 
years after the beginning of the recombinant-DNA era.

Welcome remarks to the present edition of Trieste Next - "BIO/logos/: 
The Future of Life" - will be provided by Cristiano Shaurli, Assessore 
Regionale all'Agricoltura /del Friuli Venezia Giulia/. Journalist 
Alessandra Ressa will chair the round table and the debate with the public.

Among the key questions is whether governments should adopt multiple 
strategies, including genetic modification of crops, to boost 
agricultural production and economic growth in Africa and other 
developing countries.







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