Seminars and Workshops - 2006
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All seminars and workshops are held at IFPRI unless otherwise specified. See address and map
- December 8, 2006 - Policy Seminar
AIDS & Food Security: New Directions, New Questions
Presented by Stuart Gillespie and Bruce Frayne, IFPRI
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- November 13, 2006 - Panel Discussion
Agricultural Research - A Growing Global Divide
Presented by Nienke Beintema, IFPRI, Philip G. Pardey, University of Minnesota, Dana G. Dalrymple, USAID, and Isi A. Siddiqui, CropLife America
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- November 7, 2006 - Panel Discussion
Land Policy & Economic Development in China
Presented by Guo Li, The World Bank, Chengri Ding, University of Maryland, Erik Lichtenberg, University of Maryland, and Klaus Deininger, The World Bank
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- November 2, 2006 - Policy Seminar
Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries
Presented by Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- September 22, 2006 - Publications Review Seminar
Agricultural Producer Support Estimates for Developing Countries: Measurement Issues and Evidence from India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam
Presented by David Orden, IFPRI, and Fuzhi Cheng, Cornell University
3:00 - 4:30 pm
- September 20-21, 2006 - IFPRI/IEG Workshop
From Plate to Plough: Agricultural Diversification and its Implications for the Smallholders
Workshop organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Institute of Economic Growth
(IEG), held at NASC Complex, Pusa, New Delhi, India
- July 26, 2006 - Policy Seminar
Governance Matters for the Rural Poor
Presented by Regina Birner, IFPRI
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- June 8-9, 2006 - IFPRI/PIDE/IGIDR Workshop
Trade Liberalization and Food Security in South Asia: The Lessons Learnt
Workshop organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
- June 6, 2006
Visit of His Excellency, the Indian Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Mr. Sharad Pawar, to IFPRI
- May 15, 2006 - 2020 Panel Discussion
Understanding the Links between Agriculture and Health
With Corinna Hawkes, IFPRI, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, CGIAR Science Council and Cornell University, Robert Bos, World Health Organization, and Marie Ruel, IFPRI
3:00 - 5:00 pm
- May 11, 2006 - Policy Seminar
Modern Biotechnology in African Economies: Promoting Regional Economic Integration and Trade
Presented by Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- March 30, 2006 -Policy Seminar
Understanding Institutional Change: Modeling China's Economic Transformation Since 1978
Presented by Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- March 20, 2006 -Policy Seminar
Macro Trends in Agriculture and Food Security: Considerations on Issues Affecting Agriculture and Food Security in Eastern and Central Africa
Presented by Seyfu Ketema, Executive Secretary of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and ISNAR Program Advisory Committee Member
3:30 - 5:00 pm
- February 1, 2006 -Policy Seminar
The Social Economics of Poverty
Presented by Christopher B. Barrett, International Professor, Department of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University
10:30am - 12:30 pm
- January 6, 2006 -Publications Review Seminar
An Economic Assessment of Banana Genetic Improvement & Innovations in the Lake Victoria Region of Uganda and Tanzania
Presented by Melinda Smale and Wilberforce Kateera Tushemereirwe
10:30am - 12:30 pm