Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC and the University of Kiel (EU-E-VAL Project), Kiel, Germany
Background and objectives
A successful example of achieving food security while adapting to climate change, catalyzed by farmers and scaled-up by effective aid.
Agricultural input subsidies were commonly used to alleviate poverty in rural areas in the 1960s and 70s.
Chair: Shenggen Fan, IFPRI
The seminar will analyze the political economy of two fields of agricultural policy in India: fertilizer supply and electricity supply for groundwater irrigation.
A brief review of different methods for evaluating the impacts of rural road improvements will be followed by an assessment of the impacts of rural road rehabilitation on market development in rural Vietnam.