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

• November 30, 2000 - 2020 Policy Seminar
  Biosafety Systems and Capacity Building: Policy and Implementation Lessons from Developing - Country Research
  Joel I. Cohen, Principal Research Officer, ISNAR; and Visiting Research Fellow, IFPRI

• November 16, 2000 - 2020 Policy Seminar
  Promoting Sustainable Development in Less-Favored Areas
  Panelists: John Pender, IFPRI; Shenggen Fan, IFPRI; Simeon Ehui, International Livestock Research Institute; Shawki Barghouti, World Bank; and Peter Hazell, IFPRI.
  

• October 17, 2000 - Gender Issues and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar
  Survival Strategies for the Urban Poor
  Irene Tinker, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

• October 10, 2000 - Informal Seminar
  Consumers' & Leaders' Perceptions on Biotechnology
  Thomas J. Hoban, Ph.D., Professor in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, North Carolina State University

• October 2, 2000 - Policy Seminar
  Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learned and Directions for the Future (forthcoming book)
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen, IFPRI and Finn Tarp, University of Copenhagen and Development Economics Research Group.

• September 28, 2000 - Policy Seminar
  Attacking the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Asia and the Pacific
  (based on a study IFPRI has been conducting for the Asian Development Bank on public nutrition priorities in the Asia and Pacific region)
  Lawrence Haddad and Stuart Gillespie, IFPRI

• September 21, 2000 - Policy Seminar and Book Launching
  Out of the Shadow of Famine: Evolving Food Markets & Food Policy in Bangladesh
  Raisuddin Ahmed, IFPRI

• September 20, 2000 - Brown Bag Seminar
  Global Perspectives of New Agricultural Negotiations under the WTO
  Xinshen Diao, IFPRI

• September 14, 2000 - Policy Seminar and Book Launching
  Issues related to Food Aid and Human Security, and European Perspectives
  Edward Clay and Charlotte Benson, Overseas Development Institute, London

• August 14, 2000 - Panel Discussion
  Globalization and some aspects of recent social changes in rural Bangladesh, at the Annual Meeting of American RURAL SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  A. Majeed Khan, Archibald O. Haller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Held in the Renaissance-Mayflower Hotel, Washington DC

• August 3, 2000 - Brown Bag Seminar
  Strategy development for animal disease control: The use of epidemiology & economics
  Dr. Brian Perry, Coordinator, Epidemiology & Disease Control, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

• July 27, 2000 - Brown Bag Seminar
  Agricultural Biotechnology: A Survey of Viewpoints among Cornell Faculty and Extension Staff
  David Pelletier, PhD

• July 26, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Contractual Forms and Value Contents: The case of milk sales by smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya
  Margaret Ngigi (ILRI, Nairobi) and collaborators

• July 25, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Agricultural Biotechnology: A Survey of Viewpoints among Cornell Faculty and Extension Staff
  David Pelletier, PhD

• July 13, 2000 -- Seminar and Book Launching
  Negotiating Water Rights
  edited by Bryan Randolph Bruns and Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick

• June 26, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Job Loss, Change in Marital Status and the Allocation of Time within Families: Evidence from Urban Mexico
  Emmanuel Skoufias

• June 23, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  The Role of Productivity in Economic Growth: Evidence from the Chinese Economy
  Dr. Yanrui Wu, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Western Australia

• June 20, 2000 -- Gender Brown Bag Seminar
  The Cost of Marriage in Egypt: A Hidden Variable in the Measurement of Poverty and the New Arab Demography
  Professor Diane Singerman, School of Public Affairs, American University

• June 19, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Evaluating Recent Strategies to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Households in Malawi
  Gerald Shively, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

• June 16, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Agricultural Change and Land Management in the Highlands of Tigray: Causes and Implications
  John Pender, Pamela Jagger and Berhanu Gebremedhin

• June 15, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Community Resource Management: The Case of Woodlots and Grazing Lands In Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
  Berhanu Gebremedhin, John Pender and Girmay Tesfay

• June 15, 2000 -- Internet Debate
  Hunger--first of five internet debates on food-related issues for the EXPO 2000 Food Pavilion. Panelists: Michael Lipton, University of Sussex; Jaime Olle Goig, PREVIHSA; Peter Rosset, Institute for Food and Development Policy; and Flavio Valente, Global Forum for Food and Nutrition Security. Moderator: Marc Cohen, IFPRI.

• June 14, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Integrating Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Biotechnology: The Wave of the Future
  Autar K. Mattoo, Plant Sciences Institute, USDA-ARS-BARC-VL, Beltsville, Maryland

• June 13, 2000 -- 11th Martin Forman Memorial Lecture
  Globalization and Human Nutrition: Opportunities and Risks for the Poor in Developing Countries
  Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Director-General of the International Food Policy Research Institution
  Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, located at 1700 Jefferson Highway in Crystal City

• June 12, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Genetic Engineering and Trade: Panacea or Dilemma for Developing Countries
  Chantal Pohl Nielsen, Danish Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Economics; Sherman Robinson, International Food Policy Research Institute; and Karen Thierfelder, U.S. Naval Academy

• June 8, 2000 -- 2020 Policy Seminar
  Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century: Trends, Projections, and Policy Options
  Gregory Scott and Mark W. Rosegrant

• May 11, 2000 -- Policy Seminar
  Agricultural Trade and the Environment: Beyond the Green Box
  Ford Runge, University of Minnesota

• May 9, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Impact of Bt Cotton in China
  Carl E. Pray, Rutgers University

• May 5, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Evaluating the Targeting and Redistributional Efficiency of Alternative Transfer Programs (or: The Decompoistion of the Lambdas)
  David Coady and Emmanuel Skoufias, IFPRI

• May 4, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  The Distributional Effect of Balance of Payments Reform: A Macro-Micro Simulation for Jamaica
  Sudhanshu Handa, Social Sector Specialist, Inter American Development Bank, and Damien King, Lecturer in Economics, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica

• April 26, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Tradeoffs Between Global Environments and Objectives and Agricultural Development in the Humid Topics
  Tom Tomich, ICRAF

• April 25, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Poverty Monitoring and Poverty Alleviation Programs in Malawi
  Lawrence Kachikopa, Poverty and Social Policy Division; Stanley Khaila, Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi National Economic Council; and Charles Machinjili, National Statistical Office

• April 24, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Assessment of Sustainable Development using Fuzzy Set Theory; Developing a standardized framework to initiate and monitor sustainable development
  Mr. Ton Cornelissen, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands

• April 18, 2000 -- Gender Brown Bag Seminar
  Mother-Father Resource Control, Marriage Payments, and Girl-Boy Health in Rural Bangladesh
  Kelly Hallman, IFPRI

• April 13, 2000 -- Policy Seminar
  Agricultural Market Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Synthesis of Research Findings
  Mylene Kherallah and Nicholas Minot, IFPRI

• April 12, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Off-farm Income and Crop Production in Developing Countries
  Marrit vandenBerg, Wageningen Agricultural University

• March 30, 2000 -- Policy Seminar
  Participation and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from South Africa
  John Hoddinott, IFPRI

• March 24, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  The role of trees in sustainable development for less favored lands: The case of eucalyptus in Ethiopia
  Pam Jagger and John Pender, IFPRI

• March 10, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Growth Strategies for Long-Term Poverty Reduction
  Professor Siddiq Osmani (School of Public Policy, Economy, & Law, Belfast), Hans Lofgren, Shenggen Fan, John Hoddinott, Lawrence Haddad

• February 24, 2000 -- 2020 Policy Seminar
  Overcoming Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries: Past Achievements and Future Choices
  Presenters: Lisa Smith and Lawrence Haddad, IFPRI. Commentator: Charles MacCormack, Save the Children

• February 10, 2000 -- Brown Bag Seminar
  Priorities for Rural Development at a Time of Declining Support: A German Perspective
  Dr. Cornelis van Tuyll, Director, Rural Development, Deutsche Gesellschaft fŸr Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ)

• January 13, 2000 -- Policy Seminar
  Agriculture, Developing Countries and the WTO Millennium Round
  Kym Anderson, School of Economics and Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide