Annual Meeting 2006
The 42nd Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development

June 4-6, 2006

Speakers and Panelists

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Dr. Mary Melnyk is Senior Advisor for Natural Resource Management in the Asia and Near East Bureau at USAID and has 17 years experience working on community development and forest conservation throughout Latin America and Asia. Since 2001, she has been designing and managing activities to reduce forest conflict in Asia. She has also designed and facilitated public-private sector alliances linking environmentally-sustainable and socially-responsible products to markets. Her PhD is in ecological management from Imperial College of the University of London and quantified the economic and nutritional values of forest foods to rural livelihoods in Southern Venezuela.