The climate change negotiations in Copenhagen:
A. failed miserably,
B. were rescued at the last minute, or
C. resulted in a promising set of new initiatives that will ultimately lead to a binding international treaty.
The financial and economic crash of 2008 was immediately succeeded by a global recession that is leading to significant paradigm shifts in the global policy agenda.
Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.
The 2009 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, prepared by IFPRI, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern, emphasizes the fundamental role that gender equality plays in the reduction and ultimate elimination of hunger.
Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.
A successful example of achieving food security while adapting to climate change, catalyzed by farmers and scaled-up by effective aid.
Abstract
China’s spectacular achievements in economic growth and poverty reduction have been accompanied by growing inequality, which not only jeopardizes its equitable development goals but also threatens its social compact and thus, the political basis f
School feeding programs have recently received renewed attention as a policy instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals of universal primary education and hunger reduction in developing countries.
n late 2008 there were an estimated 24 million Internally Displaced Persons spread across fifty countries around the world.
This seminar consists of three presentations of new work on the global food crisis.
Agricultural input subsidies were commonly used to alleviate poverty in rural areas in the 1960s and 70s.
Climate change threatens poor people, especially farmers, in developing countries.
“The Social Entrepreneurship Approach” developed by Per Pinstrup-Andersen at Cornell University in collaboration with IFPRI, Copenhagen University and Wageningen University, aims to instill in the students a social entrepreneurship mindset and to
Chair: Joachim von Braun, Director General, IFPRI
Lunch served from 11.45 am, panel begins at 12.15 pm
Co-sponsored by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST), and Science Foundations for Livelihoods (Scifode)
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