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All seminars and workshops are held at IFPRI unless otherwise specified. See address and map

• June 25, 2009 - Panel Discussion
  Climate Change -- Adaptation and Poverty
  Mahabub Hossain, Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (Bangladesh); Raul Montemayor, General Secretary, Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives Inc. (Philippines); Camilla Toulmin, Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (United Kingdom).
  3:30-5:00 pm
• June 11, 2009 - Policy Seminar
  Strengthening Social Entrepreneurship: An Innovative Approach to the Teaching of Food Policy Analysis
  Presented by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University
  3:00 – 4:30 pm
• May 28, 2009 - Panel Discussion
  Dealing with Climate Change
  Panelists: Ross Garnaut, Chair of the IFPRI Board of Trustees & Professor of Economics, the Australian National University; William Hohenstein, Director, Global Change Program Office, USDA; Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI.
  12:15 – 1:45 pm
• April 30, 2009 - Panel Discussion
  Implications of the Financial Crisis for Developing Countries
  Panelists: Máximo Torero, Director, MTID, IFPRI; Ousmane Badiane, Africa Director, IFPRI; John Hoddinott, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, PHND, IFPRI. Regional Commentators: Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti, Inter-American Development Bank; Stephen Mink, Lead Economist, Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank.
  12:00 – 2:00 pm
• April 24, 2009 - WFP/Cornell/IFPRI Symposium
  Hunger and Markets in a Time of Crises
  Sponsored by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA)
  9:00 am – 6:00 pm
• April 23, 2009 - Policy Seminar
  The Beauty and the Beast: Unveiling the Beauty of Statistics for a Fact-Based World View
  Presenter: Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institutet
  3:30 – 5:00 pm
• April 17, 2009 - 19th Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture and Luncheon
  Controversial Issues on the Role of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs to Improve Nutrition
  Presented by Santiago Levy
  11:00 am – 12:30 pm
• April 8, 2009 - Policy Seminar
  Overcoming Infrastructure Challenges to Africa’s Rural Development
  Presented by Vivian Foster, the World Bank and Máximo Torero, IFPRI
  3:30 – 5:00 pm
• March 27, 2009 - 2020 Panel Discussion
  Securing a Place for Agriculture at the International Climate Change Negotiations
  Presented by Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Siphiwe Mkhize, Minister of Agriculture, Embassy of South Africa; Ian Noble, Lead Climate Specialist, World Bank
  10:30 am – 12:00 pm
• January 13, 2009 - Policy Seminar
  Is It Inevitable That Foreign Aid Can No Longer Reduce Overall Poverty Levels? Commentary from 55 Years of Experience
  Presented by John Mellor
  3:30 – 5:00 pm