1. IFPRI Training Materials
   Food Economics Course: A preliminary set of teaching and reading materials are available for teachers and trainers who plan to teach a course on food economics and policy analysis. Contact Valerie Rhoe (v.rhoe@cgiar.org) for further details.
   • Food Security and Nutrition in the Developing World: Trends, Policies, and Strategies
   • Lecture 1 - Basic Concepts: Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
   • Use of Consumption Parameters for Designing Nutritional Interventions
     
   • Economics of Food Subsidies
   • Poverty Measurement and Analysis
     
   • The State of Poverty in Malawi: Results of the poverty analysis of the 1997-98 Integrated Household Survey
     
   • Food for Education Program in Bangladesh: An Evaluation of its Impact on Educational Attainment and Food Security
     
   • Intra-household Allocation (IHA) and Nutrition Interventions
   • Commercial Vegetable And Polyculture Fish Production In Bangladesh: Their Impacts on Income, Household Resource Allocation, and Nutrition
     
   • Macroeconomics of Food and Nutrition Policies
   • Food Safety and Food Security
   • Health & Nutrition: Emerging & Reemerging Issues in Developing Countries
     
   • Can Public Programs Ease the Burden of Poverty? IFPRI's Evaluation of PROGRESA in Mexico
   • Communicating Food Policy Research: A Guidebook
     
   • Food Economics Reader
   • Food Economics Reader (condensed version)

2. GDNET Africa
   A website has been establish by Global Development Network that lists newsletters from African research centers. To view and subscribe to the listed newsletters, visit www.ids.ac.uk/gdn/afrsources.htm.

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Leadership for Environment and Development
Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) is an international network of professionals committed to sustainable development. Its 1,200 members from nearly 70 countries are drawn from business, media, the public sector, academia, and non-government organizations. LEAD aims to create and sustain a global network of emerging and working leaders ready and willing to address environment and development challenges in different countries. LEAD Fellows, who are selected on a competitive basis, are constantly in touch through LEADnet, a global system that provides members of the LEAD network with a platform for communication and information exchange. LEADnet also offers live conferences, online discussions, web-based bulletin boards, mailing lists, databases, and CD-ROMs. For more information, visit http://www.lead.org.

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Tanzania Agricultural Policy Analysis Network (TAPANET)
Tanzania Agricultural Policy Analysis Network is a think tank of stakeholders involved in agriculture and related activities. It was formed as a result of combined efforts to address agricultural-sector constraints in Tanzania. TAPANET was initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and the President of the United Republic of Tanzania; the Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA); International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); the Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Policy Network--Southern African Development Community (FANRPAN-SADC); and other stakeholders. TAPANET emerged to fill the capacity gap in designing Tanzania's economic policy. For more information, visit www.esrf.or.tz/tapanet

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• The Overseas Development Group is offering the following courses, which will be held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

  Contact: Overseas Development Group
  University of East Anglia
  Norwich NR4 7TJ
  United Kingdom
  Phone: +44 (0)1603 457880
  Fax: +44 (0)1603 505262
  Email: odg.gen@uea.ac.uk

  Title: Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Activities
  Dates: August 5-30, 2002
  Fee: £4,200 per person including accommodation
  Web: www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/course_a.html

  Title: Management Information Systems for M&E
  Dates: September 2-13, 2002
  Fee: £2,500 per person including accommodation
  Web: www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/course_a.html

  Title: Gender Mainstreaming: Practical Skills and Critical Analysis
  Dates: August 5-30, 2002
  Fee: £3,700 per person including accommodation
  Web: www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/course_d.html

  Title: Social Analysis for Natural Resource Research, Extension, and Development Workers
  Dates: August 5-30, 2002
  Fee: £3,500 per person including accommodation
  Web: www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/course_social.html

  Title: Disasters and Development: Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
  Dates: July 8-26, 2002
  Fee: £2,900 per person including accommodation
  Web: www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/course_disaster.html

  Title: Integrated Approaches to Climate Change Management
  Dates: October 7- November 1, 2002
  Fee: £4,500 per person including bed and breakfast accommodation

  Title: Personal Development Programmes in Agriculture, Natural Resource Policy & Poverty Monitoring in Developing Countries
  Dates: negotiable, from 1 week to 12 months
  Fee: negotiable
  Web: www.odg.uea.ac.uk/pages/vpsprog.html

• Organization: International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC),
  Fertilizer Society of South Africa (FSSA)
  Title: Developing Competitive Agricultural Input Markets to Benefit Smallholders
  Location: Pretoria, South Africa
  Date: February 25-March 1, 2002
  Fee: US$1,050
  Deadline: January 25, 2002
  Contact: Director, Human Resource Development
  International Fertilizer Development Center
  P.O. Box 2040
  Muscle Shoals, Alabama 35662 (U.S.A.)
  Telephone: +1 (256) 381-6600
  Telefax: +1 (256) 381-7408
  E-Mail: hrdu@IFDC.org
  Web Site: www.ifdc.org

• Organization: Schumacher College
  Title: Exploring Globalisation
  Date: February 3-22, 2002
  Fee: £1500
  Contact: Gideon Lossoff, Schumacher College, Old Postern
  Dartington, Tones
  Devon TQ9 6EA, England
  Phone: 44 (0) 1803-865-934
  Fax: 44 (0) 1803-866-899
  Web: www.gn.apc.org/schumachercollege

• Organization: United Nations University
  Title: Environment and Sustainable Development
  Date: May 20-June 28, 2002
  Deadline: January 15, 2002 (applications)
  Contact: Ms. Wilma James
  Training Assistant
  United Nations University Centre
  5-53-70 Jungumae, Shibuya-ku
  Tokyo 150-8925, Japan
  Phone: +81-3/3499-2811
  Fax: +81-3/3499-2828
  Email: james@hq.unu.edu

• Organization: United Nations University
  Title: International Cooperation and Development
  Date: May 20-June 28, 2002
  Deadline: January 15, 2002 (applications)
  Contact: Ms. Wilma James
  Training Assistant
  United Nations University Centre
  5-53-70 Jungumae, Shibuya-ku
  Tokyo 150-8925, Japan
  Phone: +81-3/3499-2811
  Fax: +81-3/3499-2828
  Email: james@hq.unu.edu

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• Organization: Center for Sustainable Development, National Tsing Hua University and Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University
  Title: Sustainable Development and the General Equilibrium Approach
  Location: Taipei, Taiwan
  Date: June 5-7, 2002
  Email: chhuang@mx.nthu.edu.tw

• Title: International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics
  Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
  Date: June 5-7, 2002
  Deadline: January 31, 2002 (Paper submission)
  Web: www.sls.wau.nl/enr/conference/index.htm

• Organization: University of Paris
  Title: Spring Meeting of Young Economists
  Location: Paris, France
  Date: April 18-20, 2002
  Deadline: December 1, 2002 (paper submission)
  Web: http://smye2002.univ-paris1.fr

• Title: 5th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (GWOEP2002)
  Location: Berlin, German
  Date: July 3-4, 2002
  Deadline: February 28, 2002 (paper submission)
  Web: www.diw-berlin.de/deutsch/sop/aktuelles/gsoep2002.html

• Organization: Caribbean Latin American Action (CLAA)
  Title: 25th Anniversary Miami Conference
  Location: Miami, Florida
  Date: December 4-7, 2001
  Contact: Matthew Babash
  Program Director
  Agribusiness/Intellectual Property Rights
  Caribbean Latin American Action
  Phone: (202) 466-7464, x2
  Fax: (202) 822-0075
  Web: www.claa.org

• Organizations: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales et Institut National des Etudes Démographiques, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique et Delta, all in France
  Title: Wealth Accumulation, Inequality and Growth in the Long Run: New Perspectives Derived from Individual and Family Data
  Location: Paris, France
  Date: February 8-9, 2002
  Deadline: December 14, 2001 (paper submission)
  Web: www.inra.fr/Internet/Departements/ESR/UR/lea/conffev02/fev2002e.htm

• Title: 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies
  Location: Toronto, Ontario
  Date: May 29-June 1, 2002
  Deadline: January 15th, 2002 (abstract)
  Contact: Secretariat
  Mme. Linda Theriault
  Mme. Roxanne Welters
  c/o CETASE
  Université de Montréal
  C.P. 6128
  Succ. Centre-Ville
  Montréal, Québec, Canada
  H3C 3J7
  Phone: (514)343-6569
  Fax: (514) 343-7716
  Email: caas@cetase.umontreal.ca
  Web: www.caas.umontreal.ca

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Organization: Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), Sub-Committee on Nutrition (SCN)
Title: 6th Dr. Abraham Horwitz Lecture
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: March 12, 2002
Deadline: December 20, 2001
Contact: ACC/SCN Secretariat
c/o World Health Organization
20 Avenue Appia
CH 1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Phone: 41-22-791-04-56
Fax: 41-22-798-88-91
E-mail: accscn@who.int
Web: http://acc.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/HorwitzLecture/horwitz_lecures.htm