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

Making learning resources available online on a global scale, could be an enabler for the development and welfare of agricultural and rural populations. One mean to achieve this aim, is the development and promotion of a global infrastructure that will facilitate sharing and reusing of learning resources on topics related to agricultural and rural development. To this end, the experience of stakeholders that are involved in the development and operation of agricultural learning repositories would be of extreme value.

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.

2008/04 - AgInfo News from IAALD