IFPRI Discussion Paper by Mika Ueyama and Futoshi Yamauchi

IFPRI EPTD/PBS Forum, Thursday, May 8, 2008, 9:00 am - 1:15 pm. Featuring: Mark Rosegrant, Jose Falck-Zepeda, Guillaume Gruere, Greg Jaffe, and Regina Birner. IFPRI Headquarters, 2033 K Street NW, Washington DC.

IFPRI/ICTSD/IPC Seminar, Thursday, May 1, 2008, 3:00 - 6:00 pm. Featuring: Representative Ron Kind (invited); Former Representative Cal Dooley; Joachim von Braun, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Carl Hausmann, Bunge North America; J.B. Penn, John Deere and Co. Rayburn House Office Building B-318, Washington DC.

IFPRI Discussion Paper by John Pender, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Jupiter Ndjeunga, Bruno Gerard, and Edward Kato

Publications Review Seminar, April 24, 2008, 12:30 - 2:00 pm. Presenters: Melinda Smale, José Falck-Zepeda, Guillaume Gruère, Indira Yerramareddy, and Patricia Zambrano. IFPRI Headquarters, 2033 K Street NW, Washington DC.

Ethiopia opens a commodity exchange this week, the first of its kind in Africa. The exchange will trade in six commodities: coffee, sesame, haricot beans, teff, wheat and maize. IFPRI Press Release - April 14, 2008.

IFPRI Discussion Paper by José Falck-Zepeda, Patricia Zambrano, Joel I. Cohen, Orangel Borges, Elcio P. Guimarães, Desiree Hautea, Joseph Kengue, and Josephine Songa

New research report investigates undernutrition's persistence, drawing on case studies of the public response to the problem in Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.

IFPRI Policy Brief by Joachim von Braun. April 2008.

Policymakers, researchers, and representatives from the private sector, farmers' organizations, and other civil society groups gather in Addis Ababa to discuss innovations that are transforming agriculture, reducing poverty and hunger, and improving people's lives. IFPRI Press Release - April 7, 2008.