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

• November 19, 2007 - 2020 Vision Seminar
  Taking Action for the World's Poor and Hungry People
  Policy Seminar with Akhter Ahmed (IFPRI), Johannes Linn (Brookings Institution), Peter McPherson (NASULGC), and Joachim von Braun(IFPRI)
  11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  The Melrose Hotel, Washington, DC
• October 31, 2007 - Publications Review Seminar
  Impact of Trade Liberalization on Small-farm Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa
  Publications Review Seminar with Nicholas Minot (IFPRI)
  12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
  The World Bank, Washington, DC
• September 20-21, 2007
  How can African agriculture adapt to climate change? Insights for Ethiopia
  September 20-21, 2007
  Sheraton Addis, Addis Ababa
  Ethiopia
• September 18-19, 2007
  How can African agriculture adapt to climate change? Insights for South Africa
  Roode Vallei Country Lodge
  Pretoria, South Africa
• July 11, 2007 - 2020 Vision Seminar
  The Urbanization of Global Poverty: New Estimates
  Policy Seminar with Martin Ravallion (The World Bank)
  3:30 - 5:00 p.m
• June 26, 2007 - 2020 Vision Seminar
  Action for the World's Most Vulnerable: Reaching the Poor During & After Conflict 
  Policy Seminar with Marc Cohen (IFPRI) and Bruce Cogill (UNICEF)
  3:30 - 5:00 p.m
• June 25, 2007
  Forging Links between Agriculture and Health: Setting Strategies and Priorities for Joint International Research on Agriculture and Health
  Seminar, June 25 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
• June 6, 2007 - Policy Seminar/Book Launch
  A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy
  Presented by Brad Parks, Millennium Challenge Corporation
  3:30-5:00 pm
• May 23, 2007 - 2020 Vision Seminar
  Indigenous Peoples and Economic Opportunities in Latin America
  Policy Seminar with Emmanuel Skoufias (The World Bank)
  3:30 - 5:00 p.m
• May 16, 2007 - Panel Discussions
  Development, Poverty, and Agriculture: An International Expert Dialogue
  11:00am - 3:30 p.m
• May 10, 2007 - 2020 Vision Seminar
  Social Protection to Overcome Poverty Traps and Aid Traps
  Policy Seminar with Michael Carter (University of Wisconsin)
  3:30 - 5:00 p.m
• April 27, 2007 - Publications Review Seminar
  Natural Resource Management and Its Linkage to Poverty in Uganda
  Presented by Ephraim Nkyonya, IFPRI and John Pender, IFPRI
  3:00 - 4:30 p.m
• April 25, 2007 - 2020 Vision Seminar
  Why Don't "The Poor" Have A Louder Voice When They Are Many?
  Policy Seminar with Anirudh Krishna (Duke University)
  3:30 - 5:00 p.m
• April 11, 2007 - Roundtable Discussion
  Policy Responses to the Spatial Concentration of the Poorest in Lagging Regions
  Roundtable with Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University), Somik Lall (World Bank), Xiaobo Zhang (IFPRI), Maximo Torero (IFPRI)
  3:00 - 5:00 p.m
• February 27, 2007 - 2020 Vision Panel Discussion
  Bioenergy and Agriculture
  Presented by Peter Hazell, Imperial College London, Siwa Msangi, IFPRI, Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch Institute, and Jake Caldwell, Center for American Progress
  3:00 - 5:00 p.m
• February 15, 2007 - Policy Seminar
  Food Security: Some Challenges for Science
  Presented by Sir Gordon Conway, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom
  3:30 - 5:00 p.m
• January 26, 2007 - Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture
  Nutrition and Health in China -- From Science to Policymaking
  Presented by Chen Chunming, Senior Advisor and Professor of Nutrition at the Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control
  10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
• January 11, 2007 - Policy Seminar
  Dynamic Shifts in the Stage of the Nutrition Transition & Research Gaps
  Presented by Barry Popkin, Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, North Carolina University at Chapel Hill
  3:30 - 5:00 p.m.