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June 2010

Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
Date: June 15th, 2010
Location: London, UK

Meeting the interlinked global challenges of poverty reduction, social justice and environmental sustainability is the great moral and political imperative of our age. Science, technology and innovation of many kinds have essential roles to play in this. But along with many others, the STEPS Centre believes that this imperative can only be fulfilled if there is a radical shift in how we think about and perform innovation.
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Sustainable Food Systems – Food for All Forever
Date: June 29th, 2010
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

The right technological solutions combined with the right policy directions for the future can effectively contribute to a sustainable and equitable global food system. A new global food system should assure that everybody has access to sufficient food and that poverty should be reduced significantly without doing damage to the natural environment.
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