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International Development (AID), the workshopls' purpose was to evaluate 

 the Conference's lectures and discussions and determine what the implica- 

 tions were for AID as it considers supporting research and development in 

 agriculture and food processing in the future. In part because of the 

 Conference and the follow-up workshop, AID has singled out agricultural 

 research as one of five priority areas as it evaluates applications for 

 support of research and development. 



Finally with respect to the CHEMRAWN Conference, lUPAC with support 

 from the ACS Committee on International Activities plans a series of 

 briefings in developing countries to discuss the implications of the Con- 

 ference's recommendations with persons in positions to affect agricultural 

 and food processing research and development. Six of us associated with 

 the Conference conducted the first such briefing early in January 1985 in 

 Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the invitation of that country's president, J. R. 

 Jayewardene. Some 30 secretaries of government ministries, directors of 

 research institutes, and heads of universities attended, and within a 

 few days we shall send President Jayawardene a summary of the discussions 

 and our observations. 



We now expect to conduct similar briefings later this year and in 

 1986, one in Southeast Asia, two in Africa, and two in Latin America. 

 They represent the type of follow-up activity that helps ensure concrete 

 results based on a major conference. 



Before I turn to the Pacific Basin Chemical Congress, let me say just 

 a few more words about the CHEMRAWN conferences. As many of you will re- 

 call, the first conference in the series was held in 1977. It dealt with 

 future sources of organic raw materials, a topic of high concern in the 

 mid-1970's in light of oil embargoes, rising oil prices, and disappearing 

 oil reserves. That conference also led a number of organizations to re- 

 vise their research and development strategies. A major American oil com- 

 pany, for example, abandoned a significant area of research, and it relo- 

 cated a research facility following its participation in CHEMRAWN I. In 

 addition, it helped raise money for the second CHEMRAWN Conference even 

 though it is not in the food business. Instead, it did so because of the 

 value it sees in such international meetings. 



Another example comes from Japan, whose leaders in the chemical in- 

 dustry told me later that they had decided as a matter of national policy 

 to concentrate on research and development related to Ci chemistry--that 

 is, the chemistry of carbon monoxide--as the basis for future developments 

 in industrial organic chemistry in Japan. 



As a final example, another group from a developing country later ex- 

 plained that they had gone to the conference full of confidence over the 

 possibilities for making a liquid fuel from natural products only to aban- 

 don their efforts once they got a clear understanding of the economics of 

 production as a result of attending the conference. 



