All seminars and workshops are held at IFPRI unless otherwise specified. See address and map

• December 14, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  Cash Transfer Programs - Do They Reduce Poverty? - Lessons from Mexico.
  Elizabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry, University of California at Berkeley and the World Bank

• December 9, 1999 -- Symposium
  Eliminating Poverty: The Value of Science to Rural Livelihoods.
  Organized by DFID (United Kingdom Department for International Developmnet)

• December 2, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Prospects & Implications Through 2000.
  David Orden, Visiting Professor - Stanford University, Rob Paarlberg, Wellesley College, Terry Roe, University of Minnesota

• November 30, 1999 -- 2020 Policy Seminar
  Meeting India's Cereal Needs by 2020.
  Peter Hazell, IFPRI

• November 29, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Input Substitution in Agricultural Production: Implication for Research and Policy
  Ruerd Ruben, Visiting Research Fellow, IFPRI

• November 22, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Globalization and the Emerging World Order
  Sherman Robinson, Raisuddin Ahmed, and Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, IFPRI

• November 18, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Family Planning, Gender Differences and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India.
  Alok Bhargava, University of Houston

• November 16, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  China's Accession to WTO--What Impact Will it Have on National Food Security?
  Dr. Jikun Huang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

• November 16, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Social Capital and Gender in South Africa.
  John Maluccio, IFPRI

• November 12, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  Water Resource Policies in India: Past Experience and Future Directions.
  Dr. Yoginer K. Alagh, Member of Parliament and Vice Chairman, Sadar Patel Institute, India

• October 20, 1999 -- Seminar and Book Launching
  Paying for Agricultural Productivity.
  Daniel Newlon, Director of Economic Programs, National Science Foundation, Philip Pardey, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, Vincent Smith, Professor of Economics, Montana State University

• October 18, 1999 -- 2020 Panel Discusion
  Biotechnology for Developing-Country Agriculture: Problems and Opportunities.
  Dr. Gabrielle J. Persley, Dr. Richard Flavell, Dr. Anatole Krattiger, Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen
  By invitation only. For more information, please contact j.kryszczun@cgiar.org.

• October 5-7, 1999 -- Workshop
  Improving Human Nutrition Through Agriculture: The Role of International Agricultural Research.
  Workshop will be held at IRRI, Los Ba–os, Philippines. Organized by IFPRI. (background papers)
  Media Advisory: Philippine Workshop to Examine Human Nutrition through Agriculture. Can agricultural research play a bigger role?

• October 5, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Small-Scale Farms in the Western Brazilian Amazon: What Role for Retaining and Sequestering Carbon.
  Chantal Line Carpentier (The Wallace Institute) and Peter Hazell (IFPRI)

• September 23, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  The Landscape of the Millennium Agricultural Round for Developing Countries.
  Carole Brookins, World Perspectives, Inc.

• September 21, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Intrahousehold Allocation and Gender Relations: New Empirical Evidence.
  Agnes Quisumbing and John Maluccio, IFPRI

• September 10, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  An Ecological and Historical Perspective on Rural Sector Development in Southeast Asia.
  Prof. Yujiro Hayami, Aoyama-Gakuin University, SIPEB, Tokyo

• September 7, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  Food Policy Responses to the 1998 Floods of the Century in Bangladesh.
  Mr. Mahbub Kabir, Secretary, Bangladesh Ministry of Food

• September 7, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  Past and Future Sources of Growth for China.
  Shenggen Fan, Xiaobo Zhang, and Sherman Robinson, IFPRI

• August 20, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Land Rental Markets and Agricultural Efficiency in Ethiopia.
  John Pender, IFPRI

• August 17, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Gender Differences in Education and Land Inheritance in the Philippines.
  Kei Otsuka and Jonna Estudillo, Metropolitan University, Tokyo Japan

• August 2, 1999 -- Brown Bag seminar
  Institutional Analysis of Service Delivery Systems in Irrigation a Conceptual Development by GTZ.
  Walter Huppert

• July 29, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Poverty Synthesis Study.
  Synthesis II Team: Siddiq R. Osmani, Shenggen Fan, John Hoddinott, Hans Lofgren, Lawrence Haddad

• July 20, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Women's Status, Women's Education and Child Nutrition in Developing Countries.
  Lisa Smith and Lawrence Haddad, IFPRI

• July 15, 1999 -- 2020 Policy Seminar
  The Global Burden of Disease: The 1990s and Beyond.
  Alan Lopez, World Health Organization (WHO)

• July 14, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Identification of the Poor and Nonpoor: The Application of Proxy Means Tests to Target Food Subsidies in Egypt.
  Akhter Ahmed, IFPRI

• June 15, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Whose Work and Whose Leisure? Time Use and Overlapping Activities of Men and Women.
  Marie Segrario Floro, American University

• June 11, 1999 -- 2020 Brown Bag Seminar
  External Impact Assessment of the 2020 Vision Initiative. Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College

• June 1, 1999 -- 2020 Panel Discussion
  Livestock to 2020: The Next Food Revolution.
  Christopher Delgado, IFPRI, Henning Steinfeld, FAO, Simeon Ehui, ILRI, Lester Brown, WorldWatch Institute, Gary Valen, Humane Society of the United States, and Montague Yudelman, World Wildlife Fund.

• May 25-26, 1999 -- Conference in Cairo
  Ensuring Food Security in Egypt: Food Subsidy, Income Generation and Market Reform.
  (Conference held in Cairo, Egypt)

• May 19, 1999 -- Policy Seminar and Media luncheon
  Launch of the U.S. release of The Doubly Green Revolution.
  Gordon Conway, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former IFPRI board member

• May 18, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Gender, Participation, and Rights to Common Property Resources: The Case of Water Users' Organizations in South Asia.
  Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI

• May 12, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Transaction Costs, Supply Response, and Marketed Surplus. Nicholas Minot

• May 10, 1999 -- 2020 Policy Seminar
  World Population Dynamics: What Do They Imply for Food Security?
  Margaret Catley-Carlson

• May 6, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  Food Policy Research for Developing Countries: Emerging Issues and Unfinished Business.
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director General, IFPRI

• May 3, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  A Methodology for Integrated Biophysical and Economic Land Use Analysis at Different Scales.
  Dr. Hans G.P. Jansen, Senior Economist, Agricultural Research Department (DLO-NL), Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI-DLO), The Netherlands

• April 27, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Policies for Export Promotion of Egypt's Food Products.
  Dr. Mahmoud Mansour, Director General, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Cairo

• April 22, 1999 -- 2020 Panel discussion
  IFPRI's 2020 Focus One, Getting Ready for the Millennium Round Trade Negotiations.
  Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Sherman Robinson, IFPRI

• April 20, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Intrahousehold Distribution of Food and Micronutrient Status in Bangladesh.
  Howarth Bouis, IFPRI

• April 8, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  International Collaboration in Agricultural Research: What's at the end of the tunnel?
  Prabhu Pingali, CIMMYT

• March 25, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  Does Care Really Matter for Child Nutrition?
  Marie Ruel, IFPRI

• February 24, 1999 -- Policy Seminar
  The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid.
  Finn Tarp, Associate Professor of Development Economics, Institute of Economics at the University of Copenhagen

• February 19, 1999 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  The Economics of Potato Genetic Improvement.
  Thomas Walker and Keith Fuglie, International Potato Center

• February 18, 1999 -- 2020 Policy Seminar
  Soil Degradation: A Threat to Developing Country Food Security.
  Sara Scherr, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Maryland

• February 16, 1999 -- Gender and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Gender, Land Rights, and the Management of Land and Trees in Customary Areas of West Ghana.
  Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI