Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium

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)

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)

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)

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.

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.

Per Pinstrup- Andersen and Eran Bendavid talk about new evidence on the linkages among agriculture, nutrition, and health, with a special emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. (April 11, 2012)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)