New agreement FAO-Wageningen University and Research Centre via Newsroom
10 October 2008 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) today signed an agreement to enhance their cooperation to promote and support education, research and technical and institutional capacities in developing...
World Food Day stresses climate change and bioenergy effects on poor via Newsroom
10 October 2008 - Climate change and bioenergy are the focus of this year’s World Food Day activities, expected to involve over 150 countries. FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in...
Weekly Development Policy News via Global Development: Views from the Center
The Development Promise via IFPRI Website Update
US$50 billion lost by marine fishing each year via Newsroom
9 October 2008 - Economic losses in marine fisheries resulting from poor management, inefficiencies, and overfishing add up to a staggering US$50 billion per year, according to a new World Bank-FAO report released today. Taken over the last three decades, these losses total over $US2 trillion, a figure roughly equivalent to the GDP of...
IFPRI Annual Report 2007-2008 via IFPRI Website Update
Easing organic agricultural trade via Newsroom
8 October 2008 - Organic farmers in developing countries will have greater access to world markets, thanks to two new tools that seek to ease trade in organic agricultural...
FAO calls for review of biofuel policies and subsidies via Newsroom
7 October 2008, Rome - Biofuel policies and subsidies should be urgently reviewed in order to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and ensure environmental sustainability, FAO said today in a new edition of The State of Food and...
Is the aquaculture boom starting to fade? via Newsroom
6 October 2008 - The aquaculture industry has reached an important crossroads, with new challenges emerging regarding the sector’s ability to meet future world demand for fish. Small-scale farmers in developing countries are facing difficulties in exporting their produce, and need help to become competitive and access global...
Social Activism Online - Presentation via ask direct
Economic Transformation in Theory and Practice: What are the Messages for Africa? via IFPRI Website Update
Analyzing the Determinants of Farmers’ Choice of Adaptation Methods and Perceptions of Climate Change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia via IFPRI Website Update
Race to the Top and Race to the Bottom: Tax Competition in Rural China via IFPRI Website Update
Cotton-Textile-Apparel Sectors of Pakistan: Situations and Challenges Faced via IFPRI Website Update
Cotton-Textile-Apparel Sectors of India: Situations and Challenges Faced via IFPRI Website Update
Weekly Development Policy News via Global Development: Views from the Center
Fifty Years of Distortion in World Food Markets via IFPRI Website Update
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Share/Save... Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Malawi via IFPRI Website Update
Publish or Patent? Knowledge Dissemination in Agricultural Biotechnology - IFPRI Discussion Paper via IFPRI Website Update
Biosafety at the Crossroads: An Analysis of South Africa’s Marketing and Trade Policies for Genetically Modified Products via IFPRI Website Update
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Metrics All the Rage: PDMS with Clinton, NYTimes, BizWeek via Acumen Fund Blog
We’ve previously mentioned our Portfolio Database Management System (PDMS), the tool we are developing (with the help of many) to aggregate and evaluate data about social enterprises. Yesterday was a big day for PDMS: the social metrics platform was announced yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative, and articles about it appeared in both BusinessWeek and The New York Times.
Also announced at the Clinton Global Initiative was the launch of the ANDE network, which Brian blogged about here. The PDMS is currently being tested by a number of beta users, and we anticipate launching officially at the beginning of 2009. We’d love to launch with a name better than the bland PDMS acronym — any suggestions?
Share/Save... Responding to the Global Food Crisis: Three Perspectives via IFPRI Website Update
International Agricultural Research for Food Security, Poverty Reduction, and the Environment via IFPRI Website Update
India: Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications via IFPRI Website Update
China: Shadow WTO Agricultural Domestic Support Notifications via IFPRI Website Update
Globalization of Food and Agriculture and the Poor via IFPRI Website Update
Crisis? Not If We Take a Long View via Global Development: Views from the Center
People need to relax. The media are overly focused on the very short term, as usual, and for sounding the alarm they are amply rewarded with readership and viewership. In my view, there just isn't much evidence to support the idea that financial crises wreck havoc on the real economy. Even huge financial crises tend to have tiny, transient effects on people's actual welfare.
The entire effect of the Tequila Crisis on per-capita real income of the average Mexican, as you can see in the first figure below, was erased in exactly two years. In Thailand, epicenter of the Asian Financial Crisis, it took all of six years. The trend is slightly different in Thailand afterwards, but it's not clear that the boom there was sustainable anyway, so the right counterfactual might be...