Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.

Hosted By the APPG Agriculture and Food for Development

The 2009 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, prepared by IFPRI, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern, emphasizes the fundamental role that gender equality plays in the reduction and ultimate elimination of hunger.

Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.

A successful example of achieving food security while adapting to climate change, catalyzed by farmers and scaled-up by effective aid.

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China’s spectacular achievements in economic growth and poverty reduction have been accompanied by growing inequality, which not only jeopardizes its equitable development goals but also threatens its social compact and thus, the political basis f

School feeding programs have recently received renewed attention as a policy instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals of universal primary education and hunger reduction in developing countries.

n late 2008 there were an estimated 24 million Internally Displaced Persons spread across fifty countries around the world.

This seminar consists of three presentations of new work on the global food crisis.

Agricultural input subsidies were commonly used to alleviate poverty in rural areas in the 1960s and 70s.

Climate change threatens poor people, especially farmers, in developing countries.

“The Social Entrepreneurship Approach” developed by Per Pinstrup-Andersen at Cornell University in collaboration with IFPRI, Copenhagen University and Wageningen University, aims to instill in the students a social entrepreneurship mindset and to

Chair: Joachim von Braun, Director General, IFPRI

Lunch served from 11.45 am, panel begins at 12.15 pm

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Co-sponsored by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST), and Science Foundations for Livelihoods (Scifode)

Regional Commentators: Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti, Inter-American Development Bank; Stephen Mink, Lead Economist, Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank

There are no longer two types of countries in the world. The old division into industrialized and developing countries has been replaced by 192 countries on a continuum of socio-economic development.

Chair: Shenggen Fan, IFPRI