Upcoming Events

  • Date: 
    May 28, 2010 - May 29, 2010

    Small Business Industrial Clusters in China and Italy (Call for Papers)

    Experiences and Lessons for Developing and Advanced Economies

    Location: 

    Chieti and Pescara, Italy

    Conference website

    The Faculty of Economics of the Gabriele D’Annunzio University (Chieti and Pescara, Italy) invites submissions of papers and extended abstracts for a conference on small-and-medium business clusters in developing and advanced economies, with a special focus on the Chinese and Italian experiences.

  • Date: 
    February 12, 2010
    11:00am – 12:30pm You are invited to join us for a light lunch following the seminar

    Reforming Agricultural Extension in Africa and Asia

    Have Female Farmers Been Left Out?

    Presenter(s): 
    Burt Swanson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kristin Davis, IFPRI; Regina Birner, IFPR
    Location: 

    International Food Policy Research Institute
    2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
    Fourth Floor Conference Facility

    Abstract

    The recent food crisis, the L’Aquila G-8 statement on the importance of agricultural extension services, renewed donor interest in agriculture and advisory services, and a broad commitment to restructure global agricultural development institutions have revived the interest in agricultural extension as an instrument to reduce hunger and food insecurity. Furthermore, there is an increasing recognition that agricultural extension services need to reach female farmers to be effective, as women play an important role in developing countries’ agriculture.