Conference

The conference is winding down, and it has been very interesting. My boss is actually the president of the association that organized the conference. There are about 400 people from all over the world working on issues of common property resources such as forests, grazing lands, fisheries, etc. We had a senior UNEP official give a speech during lunch one day, which was pretty fascinating. On Wednesday night, we had a conference dinner in the town hall---it was really splendid inside, as was the meal. I gave my presentation on Wednesday afternoon as part of the panel of 2 other researchers from the workshop I attended in Kenya: it went well, and even though we didn’t draw that many people, we had an excellent informal discussion after all the presentations, which will help me strengthen my paper.