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IFPRI IN THE NEWS: 2000 |
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| July 8 | Pairing Food Aid with Schooling in the Global War on Hunger Our World (broadcast), Voice of America (VOA). An interview with Per Pinstrup-Andersena dn Akhter Ahmed |
| May 25 | Science update; Give a sucker an even break The Guardian, London |
| May 24 | Minnesota, farmers and food security will all benefit from PNTR Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN. C. Ford Runge; Rudy Boschwitz |
| May 23 | Nation/World Briefs The Detroit News |
| May 23 | Impact of environmental issues (WAV 5.4MB) World Service NewsHour Interview with Stanley Wood |
| May 22 | USA The Christian Science Monitor Robert Kilborn, Judy Nichols, and Joshua S. Burek |
| May 22 | 40 per cent of food land degraded, study finds The Toronto Star |
| May 22 | Degraded agricultural lands threaten world's food production capacity BusinessWorld |
| May 4 | Biofoods hysteria is much ado about nothing The Houston Chronicle Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., chairman of the Senate. Small Business Committee and a member of the Senate Environment Committee |
| April 30 | We Have to Keep Children Alive, (focus on the current drought and hunger in the Horn of Africa and many related issues) Toronto Star Kathleen Kenna |
| April 28 | Filling A Thriving India's Emerging Food Gap. (based on recent 2020 Vision discussion paper "Prospects for India's Cereal Supply and Demand to 2020", by G. S. Bhalla, Peter Hazell, and John Kerr) BridgeNews Forum Dennis Avery, Hudson Institute |
| April 18 | Time to tackle hunger The Hindu |
| April 17 | Policy Analyst Blames Hunger for Warfare in Africa and Asia The Washington Times, Washington, DC Tamar Hahn |
| April 14 | Can Biotechnology End Hunger? Promise and pitfalls of using genetically modified crops in developing countries National Public Radio Panelists: Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director General, IFPRI, and Dr. Peter Rosset, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP), Oakland, CA Anchor: Ira Flatow |
| April 6 | More Rules Urged for Altered Crops Los Angeles Times Melinda Fulmer, LA Times Staff Writer |
| April 5 | Breakthrough in Decoding the Genetic Code for Rice National Public Radio (NPR), Washington, DC, Morning Edition Bob Edwards, Anchor; Richard Harris, Reporter |
| March | Closing the 'Food Gap Farm Chemicals International Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Marc J. Cohen |
| March 25 | Agriculture and Technology: Growing Pains The Economist Shereen El Feki |
| March 18 | Protein at a price New Scientist Debora MacKenzie |
| March 13 | Engineering the Harvest. Biotech could help fight hunger in the world's poorest nations--but will it? U.S. News & World Report Laura Tangley |
| March 9 | India may witness cereal shortage of 64mt by '20: study. India may face cereal shortage of 36 mil-64 mil tonnes/yr by 2020 cereal demand forecast at 296 mil tonnes with output at 260 mil tonnes, possibly 242 mil tonnes, in 2020 demand for eggs and meat forecast at 20 mil tonnes in 2020 Economic Times, India, Responsive Database Services, Inc. |
| March 8 | India: Reform with a rural face FT Asia Intelligence Wire |
| March 7 | Health: World's Overfed Population Rivals the Number of Hungry Inter Press Service By Danielle Knight |
| February 26 | Asia spells growth Aberdeen Press and Journal, Aberdeen Press and Journal |
| February 24 | Consumer reaction hampers GM food progress The Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo Yoshiaki Sato; Yomiuri |
| February 24 | Why Research on Breeding For Nutritionally-Enhanced Crops is Vital IFPRI statement |
| January 14 | Gene-Altered Rice May Help Fight Vitamin A Deficiency Globally The Washington Post Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post Staff Writer |
| January 13 | Feeding Africa WORLDNET, (http://www.ibb.gov) interview with Christopher Delgado, IFPRI |
| January 5 | Challenges of Feeding the World Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Laurent Belsie, staff writer |
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