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A. Thirteenth McDougall memorial lecture
B. Presentation of the B.R. Sen Awards for
1982 and 1983
C. Presentation of the A.H. Boerma Award for
1982-83
D. Tribute to the memory of Arrhenius F.
Machado de Freitas
E. In
memoriam
A. Thirteenth McDougall memorial lecture
1. The Thirteenth in the series of lectures at regular Conference sessions in memory of Frank Lidgett McDougall, a founding father of the Organization, was delivered by His Excellency Bruno Kreisky, former Federal Chancellor of Austria.
B. Presentation of the B.R. Sen Awards for 1982 and 1983
2. The B.R. Sen Award for 1982 was presented to Mr Lim Poh Lob (Malaysia) for his achievements in the development of natural rubber production in Thailand. Mr Lim's long association with FAO started in 1971 when he was assigned to the Rubber Development Project in Thailand (THA/70/543), where he helped to plan and organize the training of 9 500 farmers and about 600 staff members. He later introduced a tapping course in the FAO/UNDP Rubber Replanting Project (THA/75/021) to which he was appointed as Senior Development Officer, followed by an assignment as Senior Officer on the Thailand Rubber Development Project (THA/79/016). In October 1982 he was given his present assignment of Chief Technical Adviser on Project THA/82/007 (Rubber Replanting and Research Programmes in support of the Second Tree Crop Project). Mr Lim has been involved at all levels in natural rubber production training and extension programmes. These have ranged from the purely technical - such as the introduction of new rubber clones, the establishment of demonstration plots, and suggestions for tree replanting schemes - to management and decision making - such as the preparation of proposals for loans from the World Bank and the Commonwealth Development Corporation. His outstanding technical competence, combined with his skill in dealing with people ? governments and financial institutions, have led to the achievements which culminated today in the bestowal of this Award.
3. The B.R. Sen Award for 1983 was presented to Mr Manuel Calvelo Rios for his accomplishments in mass audio-visual training in rural areas in Peru as well as other countries in Latin America. His earliest FAO assignments were in Chile, where he developer communication services which included both a portable closed circuit TV system and printed materials specifically designed for farmer training. Mr Calvelo Rios further distinguished himself in Peru, where he first started to work in 1974 as a consultant in educational TV and cinema on the UNDP/FAO PER/71/544 project (Assistant to the National Training and Investigation Centre for Agrarian Reform (CENCIRA)), becoming its manager in 1976. He was then appointed manager of the Project PER/76/003 (Mass Audio-visual Training for Rural Development), a project that aimed at the development of a mass farmer training system in Peru based on video and other media. In 1981, after an assignment as FAO Regional Communications Adviser under the TCP Regional Project LAT/0001 (Peru), Mr Calvelo Rios was made manager of Project PER/76/003 (at that time in its second phase), with the object of developing and applying, on a massive scale, an audio-visual training methodology, and training national technicians in the Project's field of work. Mr Calvelo Rios' ability to adapt advanced video technology. to grass-roots level training in developing countries has been fittingly recognized this year which has been declared World Communications Year.
C. Presentation of the A.H. Boerma Award for 1982-83
4. The A.H. Boerma Award of FAO was presented for the third time at this Conference. The winner of the Award for the 1982-83 biennium was "Farming World", a thrice-weekly radio programme of the World Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which reaches an estimated audience of 80 million people in different parts of the world. The programme's listeners have been made aware of the work being carried out by national governments and local organizations, as well as by FAO and other international agencies, in the search for solutions to the problems of hunger and malnutrition facing the underprivileged rural populations of the Third World. The Award was accepted by Mr David Dixon, producer of "Farming World", on behalf of the programme's production team.
D. Tribute to the memory of Arrhenius F. Machado de Freitas
5. The Conference observed a minute of silence in memory of Arrhenius Machado de Freitas, Minister and Permanent Representative of Brazil to FAO, who had died unexpectedly on 11 November 1983. The Director-General and delegations paid tribute to his memory for the prominent and dedicated role he had played during his association with the Organization, not only as Permanent Representative but also as a member of the Programme Committee.
6. The Conference paid tribute to the staff members who had died in the service of the Organization since its Twenty-first Session by observing a minute of silence.
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