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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Greetings Rangelands Partners:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Last year Kristie Maczko and John Tanaka successfully submitted an abstract for a presentation at this conference. It would be wonderful if more members of the
Partnership were able to present and participate. As you may remember from our discussions in Logan, we are now members of the worldwide Rangelands Initiative that Fiona Flintan coordinates out of ILRI in Ethiopia. An update about this effort will be provided
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Please let me know if you are interested in the World Bank conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Flintan, Fiona (ILRI) [mailto:F.Flintan@cgiar.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 3, 2017 5:28 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> WB Conference on Land and Poverty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The call for abstracts to the WB Land and Poverty Conference has been made. The Conference is held annually in Washington in March. Last year we successfully supported several papers on rangelands
and we would like to do the same this year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/08/07/land-and-poverty-conference-2018-land-governance-in-an-interconnected-world">http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/08/07/land-and-poverty-conference-2018-land-governance-in-an-interconnected-world</a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">If anyone is thinking about putting in an abstract, and/or has some research/work that they would like to contribute on rangelands, please do get in touch so we can coordinate the efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Best<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Fiona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#000053">Fiona Flintan
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#000053">| Senior Scientist-Rangelands Governance including coordinator of ILC Rangelands Initiative-Global Component,<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">International Livestock Research Institute
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Box 5689, Addis Ababa</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#000053">, Ethiopia
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