SDC announces new date and venue for its 2008 lecture series

Professor Tim Lang, Commissioner for Natural Resources and Land Use, kick starts the Sustainable Development Commission�s 2008 lecture series when he delivers the inaugural address, titled �The Rapidly Changing World of Food�, at 6.30pm on Thursday 29th May 2008 in the Peter Frogget Centre, Queen's University Belfast.
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