Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium
By Stanford University
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Description
The Symposium series brings the world's leading policy experts in the fields of food and agricultural development to Stanford. Participants address the major themes of hunger and rural poverty, agricultural productivity, resource and climate constraints on agriculture, and food and agriculture policy.
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1 | VideoChina and Africa: Are there Lessons for Development? | Stanford agricultural economics expert Scott Rozelle examines the record of the development of China's food economy and identifies the policies that helped generate the growth and transformation of agriculture. Alain de Janvry provides commentary. (4/17/13) | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | VideoAfrica's food systems in 2030 | Harvard economics Professor Paul Collier talks about how to manage the difference between helpful and damaging commercialisation. Independent scholar Derek Byerlee discusses a number of different models of inclusive agribusiness growth. (2/5/13) | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | VideoWater and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done? | Water expert John Briscoe discusses effective water management as a key element of agricultural innovation and growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Stanford research fellow Jennifer Burney provides commentary. (5/23/13) | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | VideoFood security is a global challenge | Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan delivers a keynote address on food security and climate change at FSI's global underdevelopment conference on November 10, 2011. | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | VideoHow Can Trade Improve Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa? | Economics Professor Kym Anderson discusses ways to improve economic welfare and reduce poverty and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa through trade. Commentary by Johan Swinnen. | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | VideoLinkages Between Food Systems and Human Health in Africa | Center on Food Security and the Environment | 11/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | VideoStructural Change and the Future of Indian Agriculture | Hans Binswanger-Mkhize looks at past and likely future agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in the context of the overall economy of India. Marianne Banziger offers her comments on Binswanger-Mkhize's paper and presentation. (May 10, 2012) | 8/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | VideoThe Changing Nature of Agricultural Demand | A panel of scholars talk about biofuels, world development, and our world's changing agricultural demand. They discuss and explore the fascinating relationship between agriculture and energy. (April 11, 2012) | 8/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | VideoEmerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Impacts on Poverty Reduction and Food Policy | Scholars give a talk on the the trends of Africa's land access and discuss Africa's pathways to development. They seek to discover how access to food and land evolves over time. (January 12, 2012) | 8/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
10 | VideoClimate Change and the Agricultural Adaption | David Lobell gives a lecture about the future of climate change and how the agricultural landscape will have to adapt to these changes. (December 8, 2011) | 8/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
11 | VideoA Brighter Future Though Food Security | Leaders from the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) discuss the center's global and multifaceted approach to addressing issues of global hunger, poverty, climate change and environmental degradation. | 8/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
12 | VideoThe Green Revolution and the Growth of African Agriculture | Prabhu Pingali discusses the future of the "Green Revolution." Following this presentation, Philip Pardey discusses the current and future agricultural landscape in Africa. (October 6, 2011) | 7/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
13 | VideoManaging Food Price Volatility: Approaches at the Global, National, and Household Levels | Peter Timmer gives a background of the price instability problem, general issues to be resolved surrounding price volatility and management, approaches at the local, national and global level to stabilize food prices. (May 26, 2011) | 7/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
14 | VideoImproving Food Security in the 21st Century: What are the Roles for Foundations and Firms | Jeff Raikes and Gregory Page speak on the world's agriculture and food security problems and provide important perspectives on the role of their foundations and companies in assisting farmers and reducing hunger. (February 10, 2011) | 7/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
15 | VideoAssisting the Escape from Persistent Ultra-Poverty in Rural Africa | Poverty is an Asian phenomenon. Ultra-poverty is an African phenomenon, and it is exceptionally persistent. Christopher Barrett reviews the evidence on persistent poverty with a focus on rural Africa. (April 27, 2011) | 7/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
16 | VideoWhy Has Africa Been Slow in Developing its Agriculture? | Ousmane Badiane talks about the investment and policy strategies needed for a dynamic agricultural sector and how conditions in Africa differ from those in Asia. (April 7, 2011) | 7/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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