Seminar and Film Series
IFPRI/IFAD/World Bank Seminar
June 17, 2008.
Seminars
Please email Lauren Pandolfelli at l.pandolfelli@cgiar.org if you would like to receive email alerts about upcoming events being held at IFPRI.
- Gender and Governance in Local Government
May 2, 2007
By Florence McCarthy - Young Women, Rich(er) Men, and the Spread of HIV
April 5, 2007
By Kathleen Beegle, DECRG, World Bank - Bred for Women Rice Farmers? Impact of Nerica Adoption on Rice Yields in Cote d'Ivoire
February 14, 2007
by Aliou Diagne, WARDA - Is Feminization of Agriculture Occuring in China? Debunking the Myth and Measuring the Consequence of Women's Participation in Agriculture
January 18, 2007
by Alan de Brauw, Research Fellow, IFPRI - Literacy sharing, assortative mating, or what? Labour market advantages and proximate illiteracy revisited
November 29, 2006
by Vegard Iversen, Research Fellow, IFPRI - Collective action in agrobiodiversity management: Gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India
October 10, 2006
by Martina Padmanabhan, Humboldt University of Berlin - Property Ownership and Experience of Domestic Violence: An Exploration in South Asia
August 23, 2006
by Nata Duvvury, ICRW - Gender and Collective Action: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis
July 25, 2006
by Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI - Has Trade Liberalization in South Africa Affected Men and Women Differently?
June 13, 2006
by James Thurlow
Postdoctoral Fellow, IFPRI - India's Firewood Crisis Re-examined
May 31, 2006
by Urvashi Narain
Resources for the Future - Law, Gender and Land: Kenya's Experience
March 2006
by Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi - Translating Gender Research into Action
12-2 p.m. March 9, 2006 (co-sponsored by InterAction)
by Cheryl Morden, IFAD; Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI; Bonnie McClafferty, IFPRI; Annaka Peterson Carvalho, Oxfam - Social Capital and Networks in Rural Philippine Communities
12:30-2:00 p.m. November 17, 2005 (co-sponsored by FCND)
by Agnes Quisumbing
Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI - Intrahousehold Bargaining, Fertility, and Efficiency of Production- An Ethiopian Case Study
12:30-2:00 p.m. October 27, 2005 (co-sponsored by FCND)
by Holger Seebens
Center for Development Research - Property Rights and Household Income Diversification in Rural Malawi
12:00-1:00 p.m, July 19, 2005
by Hema Swaminathan, Aslihan Kes, and Caren Grown
International Center for Research on Women - Engendering Policy Coherence for Development: Gender Issues for the Global Policy Agenda in 2005
June 30, 2005
by Maria Floro
Professor of Economics, American University - Poverty, Afghan Women and Opium production: An Alternative Livelihoods Approach to Drugs Control
May 19, 2005
by Marilee Kane
Agriculture/Natural Resource Management Advisor, United States Agency for International Development/Women in Development (USAID/WID) - Why Gender Matters to Trade: Evidence from Jamaica, Mexico, and Bangladesh
April 19, 2005
by Marceline White
Deputy Project Director, Greater Access to Trade Expansion (GATE) Project - Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development
November 17, 2004
by Irene Tinker
Professor Emerita of Women's Studies and of City and Regional Planning University of California-Berkeley - How Fair is Workfare? Gender, Public Works, and Employment in Rural Ethiopia
May 2004 (co-sponsored by FCND)
by Agnes Quisumbing
Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Films
These films may be borrowed from the IFPRI library for viewing.
- Sisters in Law
May 2007
Directed by Kim Longinotto and winner of the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival, Sisters in Law "is a totally fascinating, often hilarious look at the work of one small courthouse in Cameroon. - Lebanon: Bits and Pieces
August 2006
Directed by Olga Nakkas, Lebanon: Bits and Pieces "is an exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving exploration of the myths and realities of present-day Lebanon, as reflected through the voices of women." - Yesterday
July 2006
Struggling to raise her daughter in a poor African village, Yesterday finds the odds stacked against her when she learns that she's HIV positive. With her husband in denial, Yesterday must somehow find the strength to go on, determined to live just long enough to see her daughter go to school. - Born into Brothels
May 2006
Produced and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, Born into Brothels won the 2004 Best Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary. - A Barber's Wisdom
June 2005
Directed by Amaka Igwe, this Nigerian short satarizes a Nigerian father's attempts to attract more clients to his barberhop at the expense of his teenage daughters. - When Four Friends Meet
May 2005
Directed by Rahul Roy, When Four Friends Meet is part of a South Asia based project under which four documentaries have been made to explore masculinities and male roles. - Ten
April 2005
Director Abbas Kiarostami's Ten provides an intimate examination of everyday life as seen through the eyes of a young Iranian woman who offers rides to 10 different passengers in Tehran. The film, which was screened at both the Cannes and Human Rights Watch International film festivals, has been hailed for challenging stereotypes about Iranian women's lives while depicting the universalities women share in juggling their multiple roles. - Osama
March 2005
The first film to be made in post-Taliban Afghanistan and winner of the 2004 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, Osama is based on the true story of a family of women whom dress their 12-year-old girl as a boy so that she can look for work. - Neria
February 2005
The highest grossing film in Zimbabwe’s history, Neria depicts one woman’s legal battle to reclaim her property from her brother-in-law when she suddenly finds herself widowed. - Taafe Fanga
January 2005
Inspired in part by the role women played in Mali’s 1991 revolution, Adama Draba’s Taafe Fanga uses Dogon myth to explore contemporary gender roles.