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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyHonorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Honorable Ministers, Honorable Secretaries, Members of the Diplomatic Corp, Distinguished Representatives and Delegates from International and Regional Organizations, Distinguished Guests, and Ladies ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyIn this address, I highlight the large and growing national and international inequalities related to agriculture and rural areas, which threaten peace, growth, and sustainable development; I argue that we ought to rethink the nature and ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyAfter two decades of economic decline and stagnation, Africa has witnessed a remarkable overall economic and agricultural recovery over the last decade. Figure 1 below shows that the average rate of agricultural and overall GDP growth has ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyWorld agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period. Agriculture-and the natural resources it depends on-has been overexploited ecologically, has suffered from underinvestment, has recently been exposed to ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyAt a recent multi-actor all-Africa conference, a majority of the 500 participants-60 percent-believed that food security can be achieved in Africa by 2020 but only a minority-40 percent-believed that it will be achieved. Their predictions for ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyTestimony to the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Thursday, June 12, 2008 World agriculture is at a turning point: economic growth, energy needs, and climate change redefine the equations of agricultural ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyKeynote address by Shenggen Fan, Director General of IFPRI, at the China-DAC Study Group on Agriculture, Food Security and Rural Development, meeting in Bamako, April 27–28, 2010 Sub-Saharan Africa has made notable progress in economic recovery ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and Testimony“Este informe se centra en cinco medidas que deben adoptarse para que la liberalización del comercio agrícola favorezca a los pobres, y enfatiza la necesidad de combinar la reforma de la política comercial con inversiones en desarrollo para ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyWorld agriculture has entered a new, unsustainable, and politically risky period. Agriculture-and the natural resources it depends on-has been overexploited ecologically, has suffered from underinvestment, has recently been exposed to ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and Testimony“In this lecture, Moïse C. Mensah traces the recent history of economic policy in Benin and examines how Benin can meet food security needs while overcoming the challenges posed by a growing population, fragile natural resource base, and ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThis brief is based on a presentation by the two authors in Amsterdam on September 27, 2006, in celebration of World Food Day on global mechanisms to reduce hunger, and on subsequent dialogues. A world in which people are food secure is a ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyPresentation at a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) conference on “Addressing the Challenges of a Changing World Food Situation: Preventing Crisis and Leveraging Opportunity,” Washington, D.C., April 11, 2008.
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThe food price crisis hits a world that has the most unequal distribution of income ever, and a world that has left the poorest behind. The proportion of the ultra-poor who have incomes of less than half a dollar a day has declined even more ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThe prices of maize, wheat, rice, and other crops have more than doubled over the past two years. These price hikes have been catalyzed by various factors including the rising cost of oil, biofuel subsidies in the US and Europe, the depreciation ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThe Director-General of IFPRI emphasized, in his address, a most important fact: Poverty and hunger are now the world’s most serious public health problems. Since the great majority of the world’s poor and malnourished people depend ...
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyStrategischer Gesprächskreis der EADS, Berlin 26.3.2009
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThe twenty-first century is just around the corner. Will the local, self-organized communities that have governed and managed many natural resource systems continue into the next century? Or will they slowly disappear—relics of a dying past?
- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyTrust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS), Fourth Foundation Day Lecture New Delhi, March 6, 2009 Today’s acute world food situation is shaped by volatility of food prices, low growth in agricultural productivity, and ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyTraditionally, development policy and related research have adopted a simplified concept of rural and urban areas, with the words rural referring to more “remote farming areas” and urban to “crowded cities.” To a large extent, this view has ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyThe world is facing protracted and especially difficult food and economic crises, and climate change will increasingly provide serious challenges. Hunger is on the rise and the lives and health of millions of people are being compromised. Now ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyEnglish version of paper presented at ‘strategic discussion circle’ EADS, Berlin March 26, 2009 A.Trends in food and agriculture that threaten security Food security will become an increasingly global problem. Of the nearly 6.7 billion people ...
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- Lectures, Speeches, and TestimonyWorld agriculture is at a turning point, with high demand due to economic growth accelerating food prices. In addition, energy and climate change are re-defining the equations of supply and demand. Biofuels have a high place on the global agenda, ...