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Q&A Please advise on this comma among semi-colons and provide a more concise sentence

I created this question for two reasons: I want to know if it is proper to place a comma after the word and (in bold) below. This sentence is kind of clunky, like many of my sentences, and it hel...

0 answers  ·  posted 13y ago by Brian Dant‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

Question punctuation clarity
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T01:42:20Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/3132
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Brian Dant‭ · 2019-12-08T01:42:20Z (over 4 years ago)
I created this question for two reasons:

1. I want to know if it is proper to place a comma after the word _and_ (in bold) below.

2. This sentence is kind of clunky, like many of my sentences, and it helps if more advanced writers chop it up and express it in a more clear format. Please offer me your re-written sentence, and tell me why you changed it.

> 124 delegates from 12 countries attended the Symposium and were met with multiple workshops and speeches, here are a few: Scaling Conservation Ag to Confront the Upcoming Famine; Permaculture: A tool for self-reliance; **and,** Opportunities & Challenges for Reversing Soil Fertility Depletion and Increasing Crop Productivity.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-06-18T20:02:13Z (almost 13 years ago)
Original score: 1