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Development first: lessons learned in promoting rural development and reducing illicit crop cultivation in Afghanistan and the Andes

December 2009

8 December 2009

Speaker(s)

Tom Kramer

International experts discuss challenges to achieving sustainable reductions in coca and poppy growing, focusing on the situations in rural areas of Afghanistan and Colombia, the world's leading producers of heroin and cocaine, respectively.

Location

The U.S. Capitol, Senate Visitor Center, Room 215
First and East Capitol Streets
See map: Google Maps

Organised by:

The Washington Office on Latin America

In cooperation with

Senator Bob Menendez
Chairman, Subcommittee on International Development
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

and

Representative John Tierney
Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Speakers:

Tom Kramer
Researcher, Drugs and Democracy Program, Transnational Institute (TNI)
The Netherlands 

Carlos Rosero
Founder, Black Communities Process (PCN)
Colombia

Vanda Felbab-Brown
Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative
The Brookings Institution 

James T. Smith
Independent Consultant
Former Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator,
USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade

Coletta Youngers
Senior Fellow
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

Mr. Rosero will present in Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation into English available.  All other presentations will be in English.

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Event location

The U.S. Capitol, Senate Visitor Center, Room 215
First and East Capitol Streets
Washington D.C.
Estados Unidos
See map: Google Maps