His Eminence Cardinal Peter Turkson opened the three-day meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 4 to 6 November 2013, at the Casina Pio IV in the Vatican.
The conference, entitled "Bread and Brain, Education and Poverty" has addressed the urgent issues of education, biotechnology useful to improve the quality of the populations in need, culture at the service of life, human integral development.