IFPRI in the News: 1999

IFPRI IN THE NEWS: 1999

December 20 Outlook 2000: Economy & Industry; Rocky Outlook for Genetically Engineered Crops
The New York Times
Barnaby J. Feder
December 17 Changing face of funding for agricultural research
National Public Radio (NPR)
SHOW: MORNING EDITION (10:00 AM ET)
Bob Edwards, anchor and host; Frank Browning, reporter
December 9 India lags behind
The Hindu
By G. Venkatramani
December 3 Commentary; Be not afraid, use genetics to feed the world's hungry; Agriculture: If we don't use science to farm more intelligently, we put people and ecosystems at risk.
Los Angeles Times
Jack Kemp
December 2 Zimbabwe; Biotechnology a useful tool in poverty alleviation
Africa News
Philip Chigaru, Financial Gazette (Harare)
December 2 World Trade Organization negotiations (and demonstrations) in Seattle. Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla quoted.
New York Times
(Online session on "Evolving Public Concerns and the Multilateral Trading System")
December At Bat for Biotech: A Director’s Pitch for Improved Food Security. Interview with Per Pinstrup-Andersen
World Paper
December A segment based on interview with Phil Pardey on funding trends and institutional changes regarding agricultural R&D in the United States.
National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.
Frank Browning, science reporter
November 30 Per Pinstrup-Andersen was quoted in an article on genetically modified foods.
Washington Times
November 27 What on earth? A weekly look at trends, people and events around the world. So Many Mouths to Feed
The Washington Post
November 25 World's farmers facing a big challenge: increasing production by 40% by 2020
The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT
Associated Press
November 19-25 Teach a man to fish. The report, From Works to Public Works: The Performance of Labour Intensive Public Works in Western Cape Province, South Africa, by Michelle Adato, Lawrence Haddad, Dudley Horner, Neetha Ravjee, and Ridwaan Haywood, and the two-day workshop held by IFPRI and SALDRU to present the research results in Cape Town last month.
South Africa's Weekly Mail and Guardian
November 23 Trade-Agriculture: Developing countries and biotechnology
Inter Press Service, Mexico City
By Gumisai Mutume
November 16 India may face food shortage by 2020
BBC Monitoring South Asia - Economic
SOURCE: PTI news agency, New Delhi, in English 0622 gmt 16 Nov 99
November 12 Interview with G. S. Bhalla about the 2020 Vision discussion paper Prospects for India's Cereal Supply and Demand to 2020, cowritten with Peter Hazell and John Kerr
BBC
November 7 Study Says Farmers Must Produce More; The World Will Need More Grain by 2020
Dayton Daily News, CITY EDITION
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. 4A
Philip Brasher ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 7 Study: More grain needed to feed world in 2020; 40% increase: Official says outlook for farmers is good because demand for meat will also grow
Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, IA
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. 4A
Associated Press
November 7 Population increase should eat up farm surpluses
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Philip Brasher
Associated Press
November 7 Study foresees need for more grain
Sunday Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA.
Philip Brasher
November 7 World needs to up food output
Business Intelligence Australia Pty Ltd
ABIX: Australasian Business Intelligence
SOURCE: Northern Territory News
November 6 WEEKLY FARM: World's farmers must increase grain production, study says
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, Washington Edition
By Philip Brasher, AP Farm Writer
November 6 World Hunger
The Economist, U.S. Edition
November 4 Widening rift on genetic crops predicted
THE PANTAGRAPH, Bloomington, IL.
Chris Anderson
November 3 ADB gives $5.6M to studies on agricultural productivity
BusinessWorld, SECTION: Pg. 24
October 27 Biotech and the Poor
The Washington Post
Op-ed piece by Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI
October 22 ADB grant to boost agriculture and natural resources research
M2 Communications Ltd.
October 22 ADB GRANT TO BOOST AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH
ASIA PULSE, MANILA
SOURCE: Asian Development Bank
October 21 Interest cost and investment growth
FT Asia Intelligence Wire
October 13 Rising China demand to offset effects of rice trade liberalization, says Habito
FT Asia Intelligence Wire
BUSINESSWORLD, PHILIPPINES
October 11 Climbers Cal's Aide Dooley Noted
Roll Call, View Related Topics
By Lauren W. Whittington
October 10 Letters: Developing Nations Don't Need Factory Farms
Dayton Daily News, CITY EDITION
October 7 Modified foods raise consumers' questions
Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine
by Clair Wood
September 11 Here's Food for Thought; Fears of famine have faded, but we're never more than one or two bad harvests away from crisis.
The National Journal, View Related Topics, Economics
by Bruce Stokes
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI
August 23 Who will join the Earth's defense?
The Charleston Gazette
by Donella Meadows
August 23 Making the most of the information explosion
The Hindu
by Donella Meadows
August 23 Who will join the Earth's defense?
The Charleston Gazette
Donella Meadows
August 23 Making the most of the information explosion
The Hindu
August 16 Money hungry: preparing for the next population explosion
New Republic, Washington, D.C
by Charles C. Mann
IFPRI source cited: Phil Pardey, IFPRI
August 13 Paper examines possible impacts of “Livestock Revolution”
Cheese Market News, Middleton, Wisconsin
staff reporter
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI
August 12 Uganda, Kenya and DRCongo trade on the rise
LookSmart Daily News, San Francisco, California
reporter, Agence France-Presse
IFPRI source cited: Fred Opio, IFPRI
July/August Biotech goes wild
MIT Technology Review, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charles C. Mann
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI
July 30 Beside labels, USDA eyes other GM moves
Illinois Agri-News, La Salle, Illinois
staff reporter
IFPRI source cited: Phil Pardey, IFPRI
July 29 NAMA issues forum set Sept. 15-17
Farm & Diary, Salem, Ohio
staff reporter
IFPRI source cited: Sherman Robinson, IFPRI
July 13 U.S. unveils new steps to calm fears of transgenic food
Money, New York, New York
Julie Vorman
IFPRI source cited: Phil Pardey, IFPRI
June 30 Expert rules out irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya
Catherine Mgendi
IFPRI source cited: Eleni Gabre-Madhin, IFPRI
June 18 Making harvests more nutritious, goal of ag researchers
Illinois Agri-News, La Salle, Illinois
staff reporter
IFPRI source cited: Howarth Bouis, IFPRI
June 11 At Vatican, scientists discuss improving food for Third World
Inside Passage, Juneau, Arkansas
Cindy Wooden
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI
June 9 Agricultural yield and consumption (letter to the editor)
Point Pleasant Register, West Virginia
by Alice click, Concerned Women for America of West Virginia
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI
June 30 Africa-at-Large; Expert Rules Out Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa News, Nairobi
Catherine Mgendi, The Nation
June 17 Petition to Congress seeks labels on transgenic foods
Reuters
By Julie Vorman
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
June 7 Food-Supply Imbalance Is Foreseen, Scientists convene in Lincoln for three days of talks on agriculture and biotechnology
Omaha World-Herald, Lincoln
By Bill Hord
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
June 6 Seeking biotechnology safeguards (letter to the editor)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri
By Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI
May 25 China--Officials vow closer international co-operation Agro-science key factor
China Daily, FT Asia Intelligence Wire
May 20 Agriculture: Costs and Benefits of Biotechnology
By Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service (IPS)
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
May 15 Back-peddling on the terminator (editorial) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri
by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI
May 1 Investing in the future: using modern science to assure food security
Seed World, Des Plaines, Illinois
by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI
May 1 Scientists say food supplies hinge on genetic engineering
The Guardian, London
by Claire Wallerstein in Manila
IFPRI source cited: Peter Hazell
April 19 Vietnam Opens to Private Rice Exports: In a First Step, Two Firms Get Rights to Sell Small Amounts Overseas
Asian Wall Street Journal, New York, New York
by Anya Schiffrin, Dow Jones Newswires
IFPRI source cited: Nicholas Minot
Contents: Vietnam is tentatively opening its vast, politically sensitive rice-exporting trade to private companies.
April 14 Africa-at-Large; Experts Discuss Hunger And Poverty Alleviation
Africa News, Africa News Service, Inc.
Panafrican News Agency
April 5 Sampling world's diet diversity is a healthy move
Capital Times, Madison, WI
by Colleen Dunn Bates, Health & Fitness News Service
April 3 Global farm markets spark imagination
Iowa Farmer Today, Cedar Rapids, IA
staff reporter
IFPRI Source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Contents: The recent USAID conference "Global Agriculture and the American Midwest: A Win-Win Exchange," which was held at Iowa State University.
March 31 Finding the Midwest's role in today's global agriculture
Missouri Valley Times-News, Missouri Valley, IA
by Susan Thompson, Communications Specialist, Iowa State University
March 30 Worldly tastes, We've got a lot to learn--and enjoy--from traditional diets of other countries
Tucson Citizen, Tucson, AZ
by Colleen Dunn Bates, Lost Angeles Times Syndicate
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI research on rice consumption
Contents: Americans' eating habits are opening up to the traditional diets of other countries.
March 11 Calling a Spade...The case for agriculture
Business World, The Philippines
Solita Collas-Monsod, member of IFPRI's Board of Trustees
IFPRI source cited: Peter Hazell and Mark Rosegrant
Contents: Rural agriculture's impact in the economic transformation of East Asia, citing Peter and Mark's work in the forthcoming book Rural Asia Transformed: The Quiet Revolution, which will be published by the Asian Development Bank.
March 8-14 Food policy planners debate globalisation
Vietnam Investment Review, Vietnam
by Bich Ngoc, staff reporter
IFPRI source cited: Francesco Goletti
Contents: "Food Policy in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar: The Effects of Globalization," IFPRI's symposium at the 1999 board meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.
March 8-14 Vietnam could lose hard-won status as world's second largest exporter of rice
Vietnam Investment Review, Vietnam
by Agence France-Presse
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Francesco Goletti
Contents: "Food Policy in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Nyanmar: The Effects of Globalization," IFPRI's symposium at the 1999 board meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.
March 8 China's Food Needs Loom Large Indeed:
A Study to End All Studies, or at Least Clarify Them, Finds Middle Ground

Asian Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
G. Pierre Goad, Staff Reporter
IFPRI source cited: IFPRI
Contents: A Sino-U.S. research project by the World Bank, USDA, and IFPRI, which concludes that China will need to import large quantities of food over the next 25 years in order to feed itself.
March 6 Pressure to diversify as rice market loses luster
Asian Times, Riverside, California
staff reporter
IFPRI source cited: Francesco Goletti
Contents: "Food Policy in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Nyanmar: The Effects of Globalization," IFPRI's symposium at the 1999 board meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.
March 3 Vietnam-IFRI, Coopération dans la production vivrière
Le Courrier, du Vietnam
March 3 VN wants more co-operation with food institute, says Tan
Viêt Nam News, Vietnam
staff reporter
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Contents: IFPRI's 1999 board meeting reception in Vietnam, at which the country's Deputy Prime Minister Nguyên Công Tan spoke.
March 2 Indochina needs to boost rice output
The Saigon Times Daily, FT Asia Intelligence Wire
March 2 More rice needed from less land: agronomist
Viêt Nam News, The National English Language Daily
March 2 Crop Diversification Key For Indochina Development
Hanoi (Dow Jones)
by Anya Schiffrin
March 1 Vietnam could lose status as world's second rice exporter
Agence France Presse, Hanoi
IFPRI source cited: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
March 1 Higher Indochina Rice Yields Needed For Rising Demand
Hanoi (Dow Jones)
by Anya Schiffrin
February 28 Global grazing
Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois
by Colleen Dunn Bates, L.A. Times Syndicate
February 13 At Vatican, Scientists Discuss Improving Food for Third World
America Press Inc., Information Access Company, a Thomson Corpration Company; ASAP
January 15 Crop Scientists Seek a New Revolution
Science Magazine (Vol 283), News Focus
by Charles Mann, staff reporter
IFPRI source sited: Mark Rosegrant, Claudia Ringler, and Phil Pardey
Contents: Efforts in bioengineer crops seem the only hope for a surge in world grain harvests.

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