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WASTE NUTRIENT RECYCLING USING HYDROPONIC AND AQUACULTURAL METHODS. (1975) (Sponsor Rockefeller Foundation)... 

Mexican Agricultural Program of the Rockefeller Foundation, Calle Londres 45 Mexico 6, D.F., Mexico... 

Ruppel, R. F., Rockefeller Foundation, Cooperative Agricultural Program in Colombia, personal communication. 

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for the conference provided by the following Arkansas organizations and individuals Arkansas Electric Power Company Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company BEI Electronics, Inc. First Commercial National Bank General Dynamics Corporation John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center Union National Bank University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Whit Stevens and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Support for publication of this book was provided in part by the Citadel Research Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas. 

Private philanthropy occupies an important place in the past and present of global health. For example, the Rockefeller Foundation has made significant contributions to public health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made major investments in this regard over the past 15 years. While these contributions are welcome, they cannot and will not form the basis of concerted global public sector action to control an entire class of infectious diseases. Private philanthropy is, by definition, not accountable to the public in the way that action undertaken by the public sector is. It is neither fully transparent nor predictable, nor is it subject to the checks and balances that come from engaging in multilateral cooperation involving national health authorities that are accountable to their citizens. 

In the USA, this plan was directed from 1929-1939 by the Committee on Drug Addiction of the National Research Council (NRC) with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. The program consisted of modification of the morphine molecule at all accessible points and also targeted (modified) partial structures of the morphine molecule, such as phenanthrene, hydrogenated phenanthrene, isoquinoline, dibenzofuran, and carbazole. More than 150 derivatives of morphine and more than 300... 

Sir Gordon Conway, KCMG FRS, Professor of International Development, Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, London, and past President of the Rockefeller Foundation... 

Support for Island Press is provided by the Agua Fund, Brain-erd Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Educational Foundation of America, The Ford Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation, National Environmental Trust, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The New-Land Foundation, Oak Foundation, The Overbrook Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Winslow Foundation, and other generous donors. 

Kay, Lilly E. 1993. The Molecular Vision of Life Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology. New York Oxford University Press. 

Mwadime, S. (2004) Private sector developments.- Paper presented on the conference "Markets to raise incomes for poor farmers in Africa", held by the Rockefeller Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya, from 5th to 8th April 2004. 

Crowfoot s research group steadily expanded in the postwar era, and it included workers from around the world one undergraduate student was Margaret Roberts (Mrs. Thatcher), who later changed her career direction to become Prime Minister. Crowfoot decided to limit the group size to 10 researchers so as to maintain the interactive environment of the group. A Rockefeller Foundation investigator commented that the lab was... 

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