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IFPRI IN THE NEWS: 1999 |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
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| 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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