Ø  Video Presentation:  Voices from Africa: Biotechnology and the Subsistence Farmer”

Ø   Brief Testimonials:     TBA

Ø  Date:        Thursday, March 16, 2006

Ø  Time:        18:30 p.m. – 20:15 p.m.

Ø  Venue:      The Expo Trade Convention and Exhibition Center

                   Rodovia Deputado Joao Leopoldo Jacomel, 10454

                   Curitiba; Pinhais, Parana; CEP 83320-005 

                   Telephone: +55 41 3661 4000/ Fax: +55 41 3661 4018

For more information please call (212) 598-4000 or visit

 CORE Headquarters/Hospitality Suite at COP/MOP III

(March 13 – March 17) (Suite # TBA)

Bristol Dom Ricardo Hotel

Avenida Rocha Pombo

2400 Aguas Belas, Curitiba, Brazil 

 +55 41 3282 2400

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“Voices from Africa” was first presented at The United Nations in January 2005 as part of the CORE Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration. Filmed entirely on location, ”Voices from Africa” presents the views of small holder farmers who are waiting for biotechnology in Kenya and who are already benefiting from it in South Africa. Dr. Channapatna S. Prakash, Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics and Director of the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee University will discuss the latest developments in the World Trade Organization’s position on biodiversity.“Voices from Africa” is an intimate view of the continent’s need for agricultural biotechnology through the words of the farmers themselves.