Outreach Presentations

• Hearing on “Reforming Food Aid: Desperate Need to Do Better”
  • View PDF of Paper
  • View video on the Foreign Affairs website
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Testimony at US Congress, House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
  • Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building
  • October 7, 2015
• If I Could Start Anew: Some Reflections of A Development Economist
  • Download PowerPoint presentation
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Liberal Arts Colleges Development Economics Conference
  • Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
  • September 12, 2015
• Food or Consequences? Global Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability
  • Download PowerPoint presentation
  • View video on the Steamboat Seminars website
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Presented at Seminars at Steamboat Dialogues on Public Policy
  • Steamboat Springs, Colorado
  • July 30, 2015
• Poverty and Food Security in Africa: An Optimist’s View of Current and Pending Challenges
  • Download PowerPoint presentation
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • San Francisco, California
  • July 29, 2015
• Cornell and Global Poverty Reduction: Philanthropy, Policy and Scholarship
  • View video on CornellCast
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University; Kaushik Basu, World Bank, Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Eleni LLC.; Debraj Ray, New York University; Richard Stearns, World Vision US; Erik Thorbecke, Cornell University
  • Panel event during Charter Weekend of the Cornell Sesquicentennial
  • Ithaca, New York
  • April 25, 2015
• "Myths and Facts" in African Agriculture: What We Now Know
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  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presentation for the African Development Bank Workshop on Structural Transformation in African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS)
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • April 8, 2015
• Creating a Class of Government Experts and Managers: Training and Educating Professionals for American Government
  • View video on CornellCast
  • Glenn Altschuler, Gretchen Ritter, Christopher Barrett, Derek Chollet, Andrea Palm, Cornell University
  • Cornell in Washington sesquicentennial celebration panel event at the Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution
  • March 23, 2015
• Overcoming Persistent Poverty and Hunger in Africa: How Business Can and Does Help
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  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presentation for the Cornell Club of Sarasota
  • March 11, 2015
• Webinar for Cornell University Alumni Affairs and Development
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  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Webinar hosted by Cornell University Alumni Affairs and Development
  • February 6, 2015

• The Global Food Security Challenge Of The Coming Decades
  • View video on YouTube
  • Download PowerPoint presentation
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Weill Cornell Global Health Grand Rounds, New York City, NY
  • December 2014
• Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Institute for African Development
  • View video on YouTube
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • November 4, 2014
• Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presented at Cornell University Lynch/Weiss Alumni Visit
  • November 1, 2014
• Building Resilience for Global Food Security
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presentation at the Cornell University/Institute on Science for Global Policy conference on Food Safety, Security, and Defense: Focus on Food and the Environment
  • October 6, 2014
• Food Security and Sociopolitical Stability
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presented at Cornell University Family Fellows Program
  • April 26, 2014
• Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Director's Report
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • April 2014
• Persistent Poverty in Africa: Why and How You Can Help (Video)
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Hosted by Heifer International chapter, Cornell University
  • March 24, 2014
• Livestock Market and Mortality Risk in East Africa
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Vet Med 6723 Guest Lecture
  • February 28, 2014
• World View, the Meaning of Life, and the End of Poverty by Rich Stearns
  • View video on CornellCast
  • Dialogue with Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Beimfohr Lecture Series
  • February 27, 2014
• Some Insights on Successful (and Not So Successful) Research Grantsmanship
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Syracuse University Workshop
  • February 24, 2014

• No food security without good data or local analysts
  • Luc Christiaensen and Gero Carletto, World Bank, and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Workshop Café, 1st Global Food Security Conference, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands
  • September 29, 2013 - October 2, 2013
• Food for the Future: Where are we going and how do we get there?
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Cornell IP-CALS Symposium on Food Security in a Vulnerable World
  • Video Online: Food for the Future - A discussion with Cornell Researchers
  • September 12, 2013
• Some Insights on Successful (and Not So Successful) Research Grantsmanship
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Calvin College Summer Seminar on the Economics of Global Poverty
  • August 2013
• Publishing and Collaborations: Some Tips for Young Economists
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Calvin College Summer Seminar on the Economics of Global Poverty
  • August 2013
• Reflections On My Winding Path To Becoming A Professor
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presentation to Elwood College students
  • May 29, 2013
• Publishing and Collaborations: Some Tips for Young Economists
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne
  • April 23, 2013
• Some Insights on Successful (and Not So Successful) Research Grantsmanship: Reflections from a US Visitor
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne
  • February 22, 2013

• Resilience to Avoid and Escape Chronic Poverty: Theoretical Foundations and Measurement Principles
  • Christopher B. Barrett and Mark A. Constas
  • Cornell University
  • CARE USA's Washington, DC, Roundtable on Resilience
  • December 11, 2012
• Financial Innovation For Famine Prevention
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Dept. of Economics
  • Trustee Council Annual Meetings
  • October 27, 2012
• Persistent Poverty in Africa: Why and How You Can Help
  • Chris Barrett
  • Cornell University
  • TST BOCES New Visions Life Sciences Program
  • October 12, 2012
• Persistent Poverty in Africa: Why and How Christian Ivy Leaguers Can Help
  • Chris Barrett
  • Cornell Chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes
  • September 27, 2012
• Why IBLI? On Poverty Traps, Catastrophic Risk and Index Insurance
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Index Based Livestock Insurance Mini Workshop
  • International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
  • July 24, 2012
• The Global Food Security Challenge In the Coming Decades
  • Chris Barrett
  • Sydney Ideas Lecture, University of Sydney (Australia)
  • May 16, 2012
• US Food Aid: Background Trends and Key Policy Issues
  • Chris Barrett
  • Congressional Staff Briefing, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC
  • May 7, 2012
• The Global Food Security Challenge In the Coming Generation
  • Chris Barrett
  • Agricultural Sciences 4010 Seminar, Cornell University
  • April 30, 2012
• The Global Food Security Challenge In the Coming Generation
  • Chris Barrett, Cornell University
  • Guest lecture to Gov’t 3553 (Prof. N. van de Walle)
  • February 22, 2012
• Food Prices and the Poor: The Differential Welfare Effects of Price Levels and Volatility
  • Chris Barrett, Cornell University
  • Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Spring 2012 Colloquium
  • February 2, 2012
• Livestock Market and Mortality Risk in East Africa
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Vet Med 6273 Guest Lecture
  • January 31, 2012

• Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid: Preliminary Findings from 2010-11 US Programs
  • Christopher B. Barrett and Erin C. Lentz, Cornell University
  • LRP Learning Alliance, Local And Regional Procurement Learning and Knowledge Workshop, Sponsored by TOPS, funded by USAID Food for Peace
  • Washington DC, Nov 14, 2011
• Response Analysis: Approaches and Directions Forward
  • Christopher B. Barrett and Erin C. Lentz, Cornell University
  • LRP Learning Alliance, Local And Regional Procurement Learning and Knowledge Workshop, Sponsored by TOPS, funded by USAID Food for Peace
  • Washington DC, Nov 14, 2011
• Market-provisioned social protection: The Index-based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Experiment in Northern Kenya
  • Chris Barrett, Cornell University (on behalf of the ANU-Cornell-ILRI-Syracuse – UC Davis IBLI research team)
  • Presentation to USAID BASIS AMA CRSP workshop "Building Resilience and Assets for Food Security: Evidence and Implications for Feed the Future"
  • Washington, DC, 29-30 September 2011
• Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid: Preliminary Findings and Lessons Learned from 2010-11 US Programs
  • Christopher B. Barrett and Miguel I. Gómez, Cornell University
  • LRP Learning Alliance, USDA Local And Regional Food Aid Procurement Pilot Project, Lessons Learned Workshop
  • Nairobi, Kenya, September 19-22, 2011
• The Evolution of US Food Aid: Major Changes and Key Issues
  • Chris Barrett, Cornell University
  • Congressional Research Service Briefing Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC
  • May 12, 2011
• Index Insurance to Enhance Productivity and Incomes for Small-scale Agricultural and Pastoral Households in Kenya & Mali
  • Chris Barrett, Cornell University; Michael Carter, University of California, Davic; Andrew Mude, International Livestock Research Institute
  • USAID Agricultural Sector Council Seminar Series, Washington, D.C.
  • May 11, 2011
• Index-based Insurance: Financial Innovations for Development and Conservation
  • Video Link
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • CIIFAD Seminar
  • March 16, 2011

• U.S. Food Aid and Agricultural Cargo Preference Policy
  • Liz Bageant, Chris Barrett and Erin Lentz
  • Presentation at Breakfast Briefing co-sponsored by CARE, Oxfam America, the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
  • Capitol Visitor Center Congressional Meeting Room
  • December 7, 2010.
• US Assistance to International Agricultural Development and Food Security: Some Trends and Reflections
  • Chris Barrett
  • Presentation at Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC
  • December 6, 2010.
• Food Aid for Africa: Past and Present
  • Chris Barrett
  • Guest lecture to History/ASRC 3652, Cornell University
  • October 27, 2010.
• Index-based Insurance: Financial Innovations for Development and Conservation
  • Lecture to Cornell JGSM Executive MBA students
  • July 30, 2010.
• Adapting Index-based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) for Ethiopia: Logic and Design?
  • Workshop at International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • July 12, 2010.
• Food Aid and Food Assistance: What Have We Learned Here? What Key Things Do We Still Need to Learn?
  • 4th Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanitarian Action, Potsdam, Germany
  • July 9, 2010.
• Global Agricultural Transitions In the Coming Generation: Likely Market, Environmental and Humanitarian Impacts
  • Keynote Address to the 2010 Annual Conference of the Northeastern Branch of the Crop, Soil and Agronomy Societies of America
  • June 27, 2010.
• Developing Electronic Resources and Computational Techniques for Targeting Humanitarian and Development Interventions
  • Chris Barrett and Carla Gomes
  • Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, Topical Lunch, May 19, 2010.
• Developing Computational Tools to Aid Hunger and Poverty Reduction
  • Institute for Computational Sustainability, May 6, 2010.

• Stripe Review of Social Sciences in the CGIAR
  • Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, September 1, 2009. CGIAR Science Council, CIFOR, Indonesia, September 4, 2009.
• The Escape from Persistent Poverty and the Need to Stimulate Agricultural and Rural Transformation
  • Cornell Adult University Guest Lecture, Ithaca, NY, July 21, 2009.
• Why Is Global Poverty So Intractable?
  • Interview with Christopher B. Barrett
  • WXXI (Rochester affiliate of National Public Radio), June 16, 2009.
• Synthesis of Recommendations
  • AGRA/ILRI Conference: "Towards Priority Actions for Market Development for African Farmers", Nairobi, Kenya. May 15, 2009.
• Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility
  • Institute for Social Sciences Theme Project Kickoff Lecture. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April 22, 2009.
• Flexible Response to Food Insecurity: Food Aid Programming and Impact In A New Era
  • USAID African Regional Meeting on Global Food Security Response, Nairobi, Kenya. March 18, 2009.
• The BASIS Smart Development Pilot Project Agenda: Flexible Response to Food Insecurity: Food Aid Programming and Impact in a New Era
  • Conference on "Excaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chrnocially Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda," Washington, D.C.. February 26, 2009.
• Cornell Leadership on Sustainable Global Poverty Reduction
  • CALS Alumni Affairs, Development and Communications Staff Briefing, Ithaca, NY. February 24, 2009.
• Stimulating Agriculture and Rural Transformation (StART) in the Low-Income Tropics
  • CRP Colloquium, Ithaca, NY. February 20, 2009.
• Poverty Traps and Resource Dynamics in Smallholder Agrarian Systems
  • FDSC 4800/NTRES 4800/IARD 4800 Guest Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. January 27 2009.

• Cornell Leadership on Sustainable Global Poverty Reduction
  • CALS Advisory Council, Ithaca, NY. November 20, 2008.
  • Handout entitlted: "Comments to CALS Environmental Sustainability and Development Task Force on topic of Global Economic Growth with Emphasis on Environmental Sustainability"
• Community-based risk management arrangements: Implications for Social Funds
  • World Bank, Washington, D.C.. November 10, 2008.
• Opportunity 104: Inequality in Developing Countries
  • Cornell Club, New York City, New York. October 30th, 2008.
• International Engagement at Cornell: Education, Research and Poverty
  • Cornell Trustee/Council Annual Meeting, Ithaca, NY. October 18th, 2008.
• Stimulating Agricultural and Rural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (StART)
  • For Cornell Association of Professors Emerti (CAPE), Ithaca, NY. May 14, 2008.
• Fractal Poverty Traps: Madagascar
  • Interview with Christopher B. Barrett
  • SAGA Audio Series Interview. April 2008.
• Pastoralists in Africa
  • Interview with Christopher B. Barrett
  • SAGA Audio Series Interview. April 2008.
• Ending Hunger: "Glocal" Solutions
  • Ithaca Hunger Banquet, Ithaca, NY. April 17, 2008.
• Modern Slavery
  • All Saints Church, Lansing, NY. January 27, 2008

• Global Hunger, Trade, and North American Food Aid: What has Changed and What still Needs to Change
  • University of Manitoba and Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Network. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. November 29, 2007.
• Food Systems and the Escape from Poverty and Hunger Traps in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • UN Symposium at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 2007.
• Towards Goal-Oriented, Evidence-Based U.S. Food Aid Policy
• OXFAM Expert Panel on Food Aid & The Farm Bill: Improving A Lifeline, Washington, D.C.
• October 29, 2007.
• Food Aid: Policy Reforms and Targeting Performance
  • USAID, Nairobi, Kenya. September 24, 2007.
• Global Hunger and U.S. Food Aid: What has Changed and What Still Needs to Change
  • University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. April 3, 2007.

• Reforming International Food Aid
• Chicago Public Radio - Worldview with Jerome McDonnell. Date Aired: July 26, 2006.
• U.S. Food Aid After Fifteen Years
  • Reconsidering Food Aid workshop: Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, Washington, D.C.. March 2006.
• Livestock Market and Mortality Risk in East Africa
  • Cornell University Veterinary School, Ithaca, NY. February 28, 2006.
• U.S. Food Aid: It's Not Your Parents' Program Any More!
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. February 13, 2006.
• Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role
  • Cornell University's Mann Library, Ithaca, NY. February 7, 2006.
  • View the presentation here
• Towards A Global Food Aid Compact
  • USAID/Washington seminar. February 2, 2006.
  • An earlier version was presented in January 2006 at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana and in September 2005 at Cornell University.

• An Asset-Based Approach to Poverty Dynamics and Safety Nets: Research and Policy Questions
  • Inter-American Development Bank seminar, Washington, D.C.. November 7, 2005.
• PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer
  • Interview with Jim Lehrer and Chris Barrett
  • Niger. August 4, 2005.
• Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role in Support of MDG#1
  • To the Senior Executives of Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, MD. May 19, 2005.
• Poverty Traps, Safety Nets and Sustainability
  • At the Robin Hill Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April 28, 2005.

• Inclusive Agricultural and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (9 MB)
  • At the USAID BASIS CRSP Policy Conference, Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa, Washington, D.C. November 15, 2004.
• Assets, Poverty Traps and Rights (5 MB)
  • USAID Seminar Series: Natural Resource Management and Poverty Reduction, Washington, D.C.. December 9, 2004.

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