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All seminars and workshops are held at IFPRI unless otherwise specified. See address and map
- December 16, 2004 - Policy Seminar
Empowering Rural People For Their Own Development: Hans Binswanger Shares His Wisdom Upon Retirement
Presented by Hans P. Binswanger, Agriculture Operations Division, The World Bank
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
- December 10, 2004 - HarvestPlus Policy Seminar
High-Zinc Wheat: Biofortfication To Reduce Undernutrition In The Indo-Gangetic Plains
Presented by Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, and
Dr. Ivan Ortiz-Monastario, Wheat Crop Leader for HarvestPlus and Senior Agronomist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- December 6, 2004 - IFPRI/NAS Policy Seminar
Realizing the Promise and Potential of African Agriculture
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- November 17, 2004 - Panel Discussion
Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- November 10, 2004 - Workshop
Impact Assessment Of Food Policy Research: A Stocktaking Workshop
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- August 19, 2004 - Policy Seminar
Trade Openness and the Developing Countries: Emerging Challenges
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- July 21, 2004 -Publications Review Committee Seminar
Road Development, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in China
Presented by Shenggen Fan and Connie Chan-Kang
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- July 15, 2004 - Policy Seminar
Which Path to Peace:
Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective
Presented by Jeremy Weinstein, Center for Global Development & Stanford University
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- June 23, 2004 - Publications Review Committee Seminar
HIV/AIDS and Hunger
Presented by Stuart Gillespie and Suneetha Kadiyala
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- June 21-22, 2004 - Workshop
Reaching a Successful Framework for Agriculture at the WTO Doha Round
- June 8, 2004 - Research Report Seminar
Policy Analysis for Sustainable Land Management and Food Security: A Bio-economic Model with Market Imperfections
Presented by Stein Holden, Bekele Shiferaw, and John Pender
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- May 20, 2004 - Policy Seminar
Impacts of Agricultural Research on Poverty Reduction: Findings of an Integrated Economic and Social Analysis
Presented by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Michelle Adato, and Peter Hazell, IFPRI
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- May 19, 2004 - Research Report Seminar
The Impact of Agroforestry-Based Soil Fertility Replenishment Practices on the Poor in Western Kenya
Presented by Frank Place, Michelle Adato, Paul Hebinck, and Mary Osmosa
Internal reviewer: John Pender, IFPRI
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- May 19, 2004 - 2020 Panel Discussion
Collective Action and Property Rights for Sustainable Development
Presented by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI, John Bruce, The World Bank, Nancy McCarthy, IFPRI, and
Monica Di Gregorio, IFPRI
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
- May 11, 2004 - HarvestPlus Seminar
Efficacy of Biofortification to Increase Iron Content of Rice: Results from a Human Feeding Trial in The Philippines
Presented by Dr. Jere Haas, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University and Dr. John Beard, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
- April 22, 2004 - Policy Seminar
Growth, Inequality & Poverty: Some Hard Questions
Presented by Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m
- March 29, 2004 - Seminar
Institutions and Economic Policies for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth in Africa and South Asia
Chair: Peter Hazell, IFPRI
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m
- February 19, 2004 - Policy Seminar
Success and Failure of Reform: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture
Presented by Scott Rozelle, University of California, Davis; Johan Swinnen, The World Bank & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m
- February 13, 2004 - Policy Seminar
Rethinking GMO Regulation Through a Golden Rice Framework
Presented by Dr. Ingo Potrykus, Chairman Humanitarian Golden Rice Board Professor Emeritus ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Commentary by Dr. I. Joel Cohen, Director, Program for Biosafety Systems, Visiting Research Fellow, IFPRI
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- January 30, 2004 - Book Launching Seminar
Land Quality, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security Biophysical Processes and Economic Choices at Local, Regional, and Global Levels
Presented by Keith Wiebe, US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service; Rattan Lal, Ohio State University; Mark Rosegrant, IFPRI
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- January 21, 2004
Workshop at IFPRI on ISNAR Research
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