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A. Seventeenth McDougall memorial lecture
B. Presentation of the B.R. Sen awards for
1990 and 1991
C. Presentation of the A.H. Boerma award
1990-91
D. In
memoriam
A. Seventeenth McDougall memorial lecture
1. The seventeenth in the series of lectures at regular Conference sessions in memory of Frank Lidgett McDougall, a founding father of the Organization, was delivered by Mr Jacques Attali, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
B. Presentation of the B.R. Sen awards for 1990 and 1991
2. These awards, honouring the name of Mr B.R. Sen, Director-General of FAO from 1956 to 1967, are conferred annually. They are given to the field officer who has made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of an agricultural sector of the country or countries to which he or she has been assigned.
3. The award for 1990 was presented to Mr Komi S. Gbeblewoo, a citizen of Togo, in recognition of the major contribution he had made to the establishment of a national service of agricultural statistics in Zaire. That there now existed in Zaire a permanent agricultural statistics system and accurate and current data on various aspects of agriculture was very largely due to the efforts of Mr Gbeblewoo.
4. The Government of Zaire, in supporting the selection of Mr Gbeblewoo for a Sen Award, had recognized his initiative, ability and devotion to his work.
5. The award for 1991 was presented to Mr Peter E. Kenmore, a citizen of the United States of America, in recognition of the key role he had played in the development and implementation of Integrated Pest Management strategies in Asia. As a result of Mr Kenmore's efforts, Integrated Pest Management was now considered to be the most successful pest control strategy in the context of agricultural sustainability. Technology development was now focused on farmers instead of on research centres, and afforded them the opportunity to participate in Integrated Pest Management strategy development, and to become informed managers of their land and its related agro-ecosystem.
6. The governments of the various countries in which Mr Kenmore's project was implemented - Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam - recognized the substantial contribution he and his team had made to the goal of sustainable agriculture.
C. Presentation of the A.H. Boerma award 1990-91
7. The A.H. Boerma Award is presented biennially to a journalist or journalists whose work has helped to focus public attention on important aspects of the world food problem and thereby contributed towards increasing public support for measures leading to its solution. On this, the seventh occasion, the Award for 1990-1991 was shared between two journalists, Ms Sanitsuda Ekachai, senior staff writer for Thailand's daily newspaper "Bangkok Post" and Mr Christophe Naigeon, a French journalist, director and chief editor of "Syfia-Periscoopt', "Intertitres" and "Intertropiques".
8. The Award wee presented to Ms Ekachai for her extensive writing on the impact of industrialization on the agricultural society in Thailand, which had contributed significantly in spreading awareness of the plight of the rural population in the vast region of Southeast Asia. Mr Naigeon received the Award for the creation of the first agricultural news information network in French, covering more than thirty countries in Africa, thus contributing to the flow of information between North and South and focusing public attention on food and development issues in the Third World.
9. The Conference observed one minute of silence in memory of those staff members and Representatives of Member Nations who had deed in the service of the Organization since the Conference had last met.
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