You are cordially invited to a Panel Discussion about the new book Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, edited by Arvonne Fraser and Irene Tinker. Four of the 27 authors from 12 countries will discuss their roles in this transformation. Books will be available for purchase.

Ensuring food security must necessarily involve women in planning and implemention. Yet 35 years ago, integrating women into international development programs was a novel idea. In Developing Power, 27 women from 12 countries recount their activities that collectively helped form and support the global women's movement. By setting their actions into their own biography, these women illustrate the many strands that form the movement and clearly show how individual women can make a difference.

The memoirs describe how and why this group of activists, practitioners, and academics took on the development community, demanding greater opportunities for women worldwide. Four authors will discuss their activities in areas that directly relate to IFPRI programming.

Kathleen Cloud will talk about her early work on desertification and women in Africa when she was at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She was instrumental in ensuring that women were included into BIFAD programming.

Marilyn Hoskins learned about the importance of the "useless bush" to village women in the Sahel. Her understanding of community forestry led to her appointment at FAO where she brought the insights of women's central role in forests to countries around the world.

Michaela Walsh was chosen to lead Women's World Banking because of her investment banking background. She found that creating a sound financial institution took many years; and much education of non-bankers to sound financial practice. The impact of WWB lending is global.

Irene Tinker talks about how she has contested development programming to change policy. Her insight that the real rural energy crisis was women's time influenced many poverty programs. The Street Food study changed FAO and governmental approaches to vendors.