IFPRI News Announcements, Press Releases & Backgrounders: 1995-1999

PRESS RELEASES and STATEMENTS: 1995-1999

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1999
November 12 India's Changing Diet Could Impact Cereal and Livestock Production.
Opportunity for Policymakers to Complete Reforms Begun in the Early 1990s
October 27 Feeding the World in the Next Millennium: Farmers Must Produce 40 Percent More Grain
September 29 Philippine Workshop to Examine Human Nutrition through Agriculture.
Can agricultural research play a bigger role?
July 22 Pinstrup-Andersen Receives Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom
June 7 Where's the Beef? Experts say “Livestock Revolution” is Here to Stay.
It Will Fuel Increase in Global Demand for Meat and Milk Products by 2020
May 27 Author of Doubly Green Revolution Calls for Global Forum on Biotechnology
May 4 Pinstrup-Andersen Receives an Honorary Doctorate from India's Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
March 2 Regional Symposium on Indochina, Food Policy in Indochina: Effects of Globalization
1998
December 17 Investing in Agriculture in the Developing World Can Reap Big Harvests for U.S.
November 27 Pinstrup-Andersen Receives Oklahoma State University Distinguished Alumni Award
November 13 Policymakers Endorse Declaration at Microfinace Workshop in Ghana.
Declaration Outlines Strategies for Building Sustainable Rural Financial Systems for the Poor
November 9 Policymakers Call for Credit Services for the Rural Poor in Developing Countries
June 25 IFPRI and China Hold Workshop to Examine Chinese Food and Agricultural Policy Goals
June 3 Report Says Resolving Violent Conflicts Key to Ending Hunger; Cites Sudan Famine
March 20 Pinstrup-Andersen Receives Charles A. Black Award
1997
October 26 Food Gap Widening in Developing Countries One in Four Children Worldwide Will Be Malnourished in 2020
March 9 Report Finds World Water Supplies Dwindling While Demand Rises; World Food Production, Health, and Environment at Risk
February 12 Growth in China's Grain Imports an Opportunity for Exporting Countries, Not a Threat to World Food Supply, Says New Report
January 31 Donors and Policymakers Can Make Microcredit Work for the Rural Poor
1996
December 19 Pinstrup-Andersen Receives Honorary Doctorate
November 13 Research Group Calls for Heads of State to Muster Political Will to Feed the World's Hungry
September 19 U.S. Aid for Overseas Research on Rice and Wheat Generates Large Return to U.S. Consumers and Farmers
June 17 Study Shows AIDS Slowing Economic Growth in Africa
April 23 World's Natural Fish Stocks Depleted Says New Study
January 24 Recent High Grain Prices and Low Supplies Do Not Signal a Long-term Trend
1995
August 10 New Report Finds Women Offer Untapped Potential for Boosting Food Production in the Developing World
June 15 New Study Finds Indiscriminate Spraying of Bean Crops, Few Protective Precautions in Three-Country Andean Region
June 15 International Conference Hears Call for Human Right to Food, Global Action Plan for Preventing Hunger While Protecting the Environment to Year 2020
June 15 Comprehensive Projections Model Predicts Future Hunger Hot Spots; Shows Pantry Bare in Large Pockets of the World in 2020
June 15 Revolutionary Method Using Genetic "Maps and Markers" Promises to Increase Rice Yields by 15-20 Percent in Hungry South Asia
June 14 New Study Reports that Foreign Aid Creates U.S. Jobs
June 14 China Will Not Drain World Food Markets Concludes New Study
June 14 Potential for International and National Water Conflicts Is High in Coming Years According to Research Organization
 

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