IFPRI IN THE NEWS: 2003

December 4 AFRICA: Improved agricultural output key to cutting poverty
UN Regional Information Network Africa
December 4 Seeds of Hope in the Agriculture Sector
Jean-Jacques Cornish. Inter Press Service
December 2 Agricultural research: Paying for penny
Abdul Bayes. Daily Star [Bangladesh]
December 1 Africa Gears Up for Green Revolution
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen. Business Day [Johannesburg]
November 27 Solutions to Hunger Panel
Guest: Joachim von Braun. The Current [CBC radio]
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November 19 Water shortage to cause food crisis
Alfred Oduor. East African Standard [Kenya]
November 19 Pakistan wary of growing China-India ties
Miriam Kagan. Inter Press Service
November 18 Expert Focuses on Malnutrition: 'U' to Receive $2.3M for Crop Enhancement
Don Jordan. The State News [Michigan State University]
November 17 India, China discuss how to jointly reduce poverty
New Kerala
November 15 Workshop calls for exploiting Asian livestock potential
Business Standard [India]
November 12 Asian Rivals India-China Discuss Joint Poverty Reduction Strategies
OneWorld South Asia
November 11 A Third of Agricultural Income Must Be spent on R&D in Dairies
Piyush Pandey. Business Standard [India]
November 11 Drives, drivers and diversification
Abdul Bayes. Daily Star [Bangladesh]
November 8 Brazilian trade impasse gives way
Jeffrey Sparshott. The Washington Times
November 7 Urgent Need to Save Africa's Water Sources
Business Day [Johannesburg]
November 4 Water scarcity to worsen food shortages in Africa
AFP
November 3 Water shortages may make Africa more aid dependent
Reuters
November 2 Le manque d'eau va aggraver les pénuries alimentaires en Afrique
Jeune Afrique l'intelligent
October 31 10-Year Head Start Helps ARS Play Vital Role in Nutrition Program
Luis Pons. USDA Agricultural Research Service
October 30 When Will They Cotton On? Anti-Competitive Subsidies are Destroying Developing Nations
Cedric Soule. Oxford Student
October 29 Battle Malnutrition Now - or Watch it Rise - Agencies
Jim Lobe. Inter Press Service
October 29 WTO Collapse to Hurt Food Security
The East African Standard [Nairobi]
October 29 Whelan calls on U.S. and EU to review agricultural subsidies that hurt Africa
Susan Linnee. CBC News
October 28 ZAMBIA: Conservation farming proves popular with farmers
IRIN News
October 27 International Think-Tank Warns of Malnutrition
South African Press Association
October 26 200 Million Africans Malnourished - Report
Jennifer Nakalema. The Monitor [Kampala]
October 24 New species found in race to map oceans
Alanna Mitchell. Globe and Mail [Toronto]
October 22 Orange corn could nourish Africa
AP
October 21 Grant Aims at More Healthful Crops
Andrew Pollack. New York Times [registration required]
October 15 $100m plan for Third World GM crops
Sunday Times [South Africa]
October 15 Golden rice study gets Gates boost
Kitta MacPherson. Newark Star Ledger
October 15 Scientists launch $100 mn drive to battle hunger with new food crops
Glenn Mckenzie . Hindustan Times
October 15 USA: Bill Gates donates $25m to GM research to fight malnutrition
Just-food.com
October 15 Poor Countries to Dominate Fish Industry in 2020
Mildred Mpundu. The Times of Zambia
October 14 Gates Funds Nutritious Crops Initiative
Associated Press [registration required]
October 14 $100 Million Plan Announced to Battle Hunger With New Crops
VOA News
October 14 'HarvestPlus' grants will aid biotechnology
Rachel Melcer. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 14 Monsanto Announces Launch Of HarvestPlus To Address Malnutrition
CropDecisions.com
October 14 La Fondation Gates donne 25 M USD pour des récoltes enrichies en fortifiants
AFP
October 14 Cash boost for research to make crops more healthy
Katie Mantell. SciDev.net
October 8 Ergebnisse der Forschung gemeinsam umsetzen
Eduard Warda. Göttinger Tageblatt
October 7 Nach Cancun: Wege aus der Sackgasse
Joachim von Braun. Süddeutsche Zeitung
October 6 Developing Nations Set To Cash In On Marine Resources To Meet Global Demand
Ashok B. Sharma. Financial Express
October 3 Un séminaire sur l'élaboration de la carte sur la pauvreté au Vietnam
Dô Quyên. Le Courrier [Viet Nam]
October 3 Fish Intake Will Scale New Heights
Earl Lane. Newsday
October 3 Poissons sous pression
Sciences et Avenir
October 3 Developing Nations To Consume, Produce Most Fish By 2020
UN Wire
October 2 Developing nations are 'set to dominate world fishing'
John Mason. Financial Times
October 2 Overfishing threat grows
Alex Kirby. BBC
October 2 Les pays pauvres domineront le secteur de la pêche d'ici 2020, selon l'IFPRI
AFP
October 2 Welternährung: Steigender Fischkonsum
Der Standard
October 2 La pêche dans le monde : Les pauvres vont dominer l’activité dans 20 ans
Mohamed Gueye. Le Quotidien [Senegal]
September Agrar-Handelspolitik der Industrieländer: nicht auf Kosten der Armen
Joachim von Braun. e.velop
September 27 Pyrrhic victory at Cancun
Vijalakshmi Balakrishnan. Hindu Business Line
September 23 Some African Governments Ignoring Food Security Committments
Cole Mallard. VOA News
September 19 Cancun confrontation and concocted comparative advantage
Abdul Bayes. The Daily Star [Bangladesh]
September 17 The Contest in Cancun
Boston Globe
September 16 Africa loses in WTO impasse: Lack of trade deal hurts poor states
Chicago Tribune
September 15 EU farm reforms do not reduce trade distortions
Surinder Sud. Business Standard
September 14 No can do at Cancun
Dan Mariano. Today [Philippines]
September 10 A fair crop?
Rhys Blakely. Times Online [London]
September 10 Farm Subsidies
Guest: David Orden. Forum with Michael Krasny. KQED
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September 10 Curbing protectionism
Boston Globe
September 9 How trade impacts US jobs and the war on terrorism
Howard LaFranchi. The Christian Science Monitor
September 7 EU Moots Lowering (Some) Trade Barriers
Deutsche Welle
September 4 Global Trade and Commodities: Sugar
Guest: David Orden. Worldview. Chicago Public Radio
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September 4 Poor Nations to Target Subsidies at Upcoming WTO Meeting
Marcela Sanchez. washingtonpost.com
September 4 Global Trade Rules Carry Deadly Costs for Africa
Shapi Shacinda. Reuters
September 3 Dhaka to urge rich nations to cut farm subsidies
Reaz Ahmad. The Daily Star [Bangladesh]
September 1 WTO Conference to Tackle Global Trade Issues
Asia Pulse
September 1 Trade hopes ride on Cancun talks
Liam Dann. New Zealand Herald
August 29 Trade 'distortion': impact on developing economies
FoodNavigator.com
August 29 Rich Country Trade Policies Sap Poor Country Economies
OneWorld.net
August 27 Report: Subsidies cost poor farmers $24 billion
Bloomberg
August 27 Agriculture and baneful bifurcation
Abdul Bayes. The Daily Star [Bangladesh]
August 27 Adding up farming subsidies
Rachel Clarke. BBC
August 27 U.S. Corn Subsidies Said to Damage Mexico
Elizabeth Becker. New York Times
August 27 Farm Subsidies in Developed Nations Harmful to Poor Countries, says Study
Mwamoyo Hamza. VOA News
August 27 Paul Knox
Paul Knox. The Globe and Mail
August 27 Hondurans protest IMF-inspired reforms
Australian Financial Review
August 26 Study: Rich Nations Hurt World's Farmers
Reuters
August 26 WTO toils over global growth deal
Washington Times
August 25 Think-tank and NEPAD to unite on Africa's food security
Katie Mantell. SciDev.net
August 21 Zimbabwe Fiasco Likely to Feature At Food Conference
The Daily News [Harare]
August 19 Farm Subsidies High On the Agenda
Anthony Stoppard. InterPress Service
August 19 Economists seek ideas to fight African food shortage
Business Day
August 17 Africa slams EU/US farm deal
Reuters
August 14 Think-Tank Urges Bigger Government Agriculture Spending
AllAfrica.com
August 8 Experten sehen Cancún scheitern
Die Tageszeitung
August 8 Besser frei handeln als für Hunger bezahlen
Monika Hoegen. Frankfurter Rundschau
August 8 Sorgen um Erfolg der WTO-Verhandlungen
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
August 7 The promise of a blue revolution
The Economist
August 6 IFPRI: Changes and the challenges
Abdul Bayes. The Daily Star [Bangladesh]
August 4 New Book Says We Can End Hunger By Mid-Century
Jessica T. Farmer. U.N. Wire
August 1 U economists zero in on global hunger
Lee Egerstrom. St. Paul Pioneer Press
July 10 The Real Economics of Linking Rivers
Article by Suresh Chandra Babu. Sify News
July 3 Mehr Vitamine für die Armen
Interview with Joachim von Braun. Die Zeit
July 2 No End to World Hunger Without Biotech: Researchers
Tim Large. Reuters
June 23 Remarks for Opening Plenary, Science & Technology Ministerial
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman. USDA Press Release.
May 29 Organismes Genetiquement Modifies: Les préalables à la consommation
Walf Wadjiri
May 24 Perspectives du commerce international : Doha serait bon pour l’Afrique
Mohamed Gueye. Le Quotidien
May 23 Recherche sur les politiques alimentaires : L’IFPRI s’ouvre à Afrique de l’Ouest
Sadibou Marone. Le Soleil [Dakar]
May 20 Neither panacea nor poison
Rachel Melcer. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 8 Punjab fancies corporate farming, cuts taxes on eco-friendly crops
The Economic Times [India]
April 25 AP, Punjab may use US body for farm research
Janaki Ghatpande. Business Standard
April 23 The great grain drain: US floods global markets
Nidhi Nath Srinavas. The Economic Times
April 23 The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Guest: Joachim von Braun. WAMU
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April 5 Saturday Food Chain
Guests: David Fredrickson and Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla. Metrofarm.com
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April 3 Donors urged to remember Africa
Olga Kryzhanovska. The Washington Times
March 31 Sleeping elephants, charging dragons
Business Standard
March 30 WTO's failing agricultural trade negotiations
Letter to the Editor by Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla. The Washington Times
March 27 India has enormous under-nutrition and over-nutrition problems
Express Pharma Pulse
March 26 Ending Hunger in Africa
Moyiga Nduru. InterPress Service
March 26 Why agricultural subsidies don’t work
Surinder Sud. Business Standard
March 26 Manmohan seeks farm sector push
Business Standard
March 25 Elephant And Dragon Could Cross The Wall And March Together Tall
Financial Express
March 25 Indo-China ties will help the poor, say experts
Nishtha Chugh. Express News Service
March 25 Seminar on farm reforms concludes
Express News Service
March 13 Malnutrition costs 5 pc of India's GDP
Sarita Ravindranath. Sify News
March 12 Malnutrition continues to plague Asia
The New Indian Express
March 10 The government must invest in small-scale farming to reduce poverty
Bangalore Times
March 7 Nutrition trouble in India
Lalita Panicker. Times of India
March 6 India need to invest in nutrition
Feroze Ahmed. The Hindu
February 20 Africa Journal
Voice of America
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February 18 Famine in Ethiopia: When markets don't work
Op-ed by Eleni Gabre-Madin. International Herald Tribune
February 6 Ethiopia: Researchers Outline Root Causes Of Recurring Famine
Teri Hope. UN Wire
February 6 Bug-Resistant Cotton Yields Big in India
Lauran Neergaard. Associated Press
February 5 Report Says Ethiopia Must Invest in Solutions to Hunger
Emad Mekay. IPS
February 1-15 World Bank-IFPRI organize workshop on AoA in Bhutan
World Trade Review (Islamabad)
January 25 Inefficiency of Ethiopia’s Grain Market Accused of Creating Deficiency Crisis
Addis Tribune
January 23 From Crop Surplus to Food Shortage. What Happened?
Eleni Gabre-Madhin. The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
January 17 Researchers Speak of Fundamental Policies to be Put in Place to Fight Famine in Ethiopia
Addis Tribune

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