The CCDS hosts a debate each year on a pressing issue in development studies..
Our first was held last March, 2014. It featured Evan Fraser, a Canada Research Chair in Global Human Security from the University of Guelph and Herbert Krunzucker, Canada Research Chair in Systems Biology of Plant Nutrition from UTSC. they debated the topic: "The Promise and Perilm of Using Biotechnology to Feed the Future" (podast below).