Presentations by Chris Barrett

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2013

• Food or Consequences: Food Security and Its Implications for Global Sociopolitical Instability
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presented at Australian National University (Canberra) to the Australasian Development Economics Workshop
  • June 7, 2013
• Decomposing Intergenerational Income Elasticity: The gender-differentiated contribution of capital transmission in rural Philippines
  • Leah Bevis, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Australasian Development Economics Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra
  • June 6, 2013
• The System of Rice Intensification and Its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia
  • Kazushi Takahashi, Institute of Developing Economies and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Australian National University seminar
  • June 4, 2013
• Reflections On My Winding Path To Becoming A Professor
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presentation to Elwood College students
  • May 29, 2013
• The System of Rice Intensification and Its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia
  • Kazushi Takahashi, Institute of Developing Economies and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • University of Sydney seminar
  • May 24, 2013
• The Impact of World Oil Price Shocks on Maize Prices in East Africa
  • Brian M. Dillon, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presentation to the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society New South Wales Brank
  • May 23, 2013
• Resilience to Avoid and Escape Chronic Poverty
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Monash Centre for Development Economics panel discussion
  • May 22, 2013
• Decomposing Intergenerational Income Elasticity: The gender-differentiated contribution of capital transmission in rural Philippines
  • Leah Bevis, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Monash University Workshop on Poverty and Inequality
  • May 21, 2013
• The Impact of World Oil Price Shocks on Maize Prices in East Africa
  • Brian M. Dillon, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • University of Melbourne seminar
  • May 16, 2013
• The Impact of World Oil Price Shocks on Maize Prices in East Africa
  • Brian M. Dillon, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Monash University seminar
  • May 8, 2013
• The System of Rice Intensification and Its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia
  • Kazushi Takahashi, Institute of Developing Economies and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Deakin University seminar
  • May 1, 2013
• Decomposing Intergenerational Income Elasticity: The gender-differentiated contribution of human and physical capital transmission in rural Philippines
  • Leah Bevis, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • April 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
• The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
  • Marc F. Bellemare, Duke University; Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University; and David R. Just, Cornell University
  • University of Adelaide, School of Economics
  • April 5, 2013
• The System of Rice Intensification and Its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia
  • Kazushi Takahashi, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Melbourne Workshop In Development Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • March 15, 2013
• Chronic Rural Poverty and Resilience: Some Reflections and A Research Agenda
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Monash University Workshop on “Ecologists and Economists: scope for collaboration?”
  • March 13, 2013
• Non-farm Occupational and Earnings Dynamics in Rural Thailand
  • Chayanee Chawanote, Cornell University and Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Applied Microeconomics Seminar, Monash University
  • March 7, 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
• How a Global Oil Price Rise Might Impact Local Maize Market Prices in Africa
  • Brian Dillon, Cornell University and Chris Barrett, Cornell University
  • A presentation for the “Oil Prices and African Food Security” workshop, Cornell University, Jan 7-8, 2013
  • Sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • January 7, 2013

2012

• 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
• US Food Aid: Background Trends and Key Policy Issues on the Cusp of a Farm Bill
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • C.H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Department of Economics, Cornell University
  • Community and International Nutrition Seminar Series, Cornell University
  • November 19, 2012
• Financial Innovation For Famine Prevention
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • C.H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management and Dept. of Economics
  • Trustee Council Annual Meetings
  • October 27, 2012
• Resilience Against Chronic Poverty: Some Reflections and An Agenda
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Cornell University
  • Seminar to Harvard University Sustainability Science Program
  • October 24, 2012
• Food or Consequences: Food Security and Its Implications for Global Sociopolitical Instability
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Cornell University
  • Seminar presented to Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
  • October 23, 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
• Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya: An Analysis of the Patterns and Determinants of Purchase
  • Andrew G. Mude and Christopher B. Barrett
  • 10th International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy, Ethiopian Economics Association
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • July 19, 2012
• The System of Rice Intensification and Its Puzzling Impacts on Household Welfare: Evidence from Rural Indonesia
  • Kazushi Takahashi and Christopher B. Barrett
  • Presentation at workshop on The Economics of Global Poverty
  • Calvin College
  • July 12, 2012
• Food Security and Sociopolitical Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Christopher B. Barrett and Joanna B. Upton
  • Food Security and its Implications for Global Stability Authors' Workshop
  • Ithaca, NY
  • June 19, 2012
• Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya: An Analysis of the Patterns and Determinants of Purchase
  • Andrew G. Mude and Christopher B. Barrett
  • I4 Meetings, Rome
  • June 14, 2012
• The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: Policy and Empirical Implications
  • Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter
  • Seminar at University of California at Riverside
  • May 24, 2012
• Local Food for Local Schools: The impacts of local procurement for a school feeding program in Burkina Faso
  • Joanna B. Upton, Erin C. Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett, and Teevrat Garg
  • Seminar at University of California at Riverside
  • May 23, 2012
• Index-based Insurance: Financial Innovations for Development and Conservation
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Seminar at Monash University
  • May 20, 2012
• A stochastic dominance approach to program evaluation
  • Felix Naschold, University of Wyoming
  • Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
  • May 2012 seminar presentation
  • University of Sydney and Monash University
• 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
• LRP and Market Prices: A Multi-Country Analysis
  • Teevrat Garg, Christopher B. Barrett, Miguel I. Gómez, Erin C. Lentz, William Violette
  • Cornell University
  • FAO ISN-Symposium, January, 2012
• Measuring Social Networks'’ Effects on Agricultural Technology Adoption
  • Annemie Maertens and Christopher B. Barrett
  • University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University
  • 7 January 2012

2011

• Food Prices and the Poor: The Differential Welfare Effects of Price Levels and Volatility
  • Chris Barrett, Cornell University
  • International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, General Meeting Theme Day
  • St. Petersburg, Florida, December 11, 2011
• 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
• New Modalities of International Food Assistance: A Review of the Evidence
  • Joanna B. Upton, Erin C. Lentz, Christopher B. Barrett
  • Presentation at AAEA Annual Meetings, Pittsburgh, PA
  • July 2011
• Climate Change, Climate Variability And Poverty Traps: The Role (and Limits) of Index Insurance for East African Pastoralists
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Presentation at the Brown International Advanced Research Institute on Climate Change and Its Impacts, Providence, RI
  • June 13, 2011
• Training and Education of Purchasers: Insights and Challenges from IBLI in East Africa
  • Andrew Mude and Chris Barrett
  • I4 Technical Meeting, Washington, DC
  • 13-14 May 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
  • USAID web screencast: Agrilinks of KDID / Presentation Screencast
  • 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.
  • 11 May, 2011
• Assisting the Escape From Persistent Ultra-Poverty in Rural Africa
  • Video Link
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium, Stanford University
  • April 27, 2011
• Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility
  • Video Link
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Institute for the Social Sciences Theme Project Capstone Lecture
  • April 6, 2011
• Index-based Insurance: Financial Innovations for Development and Conservation
  • Video Link
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • CIIFAD Seminar
  • March 16, 2011
• A stochastic dominance approach to program evaluation (And an application to child nutritional status in arid and semi-arid Kenya)
  • Felix Naschold (Cornell University & University of Wyoming) and Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell University)
  • Cornell University Nutrition and Food Science & Technology seminar
  • March 7, 2011
• Index Insurance for Pro-poor Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of Hornbills in Southern Thailand
  • Pin Chantarat, Chris Barrett. Tavan Janvilisri, Chularat Niratisayakul, Sittichai Mudsri and Pilai Poonswad
  • Linking Biodiversity and Poverty Hotspots Seminar, Cornell University
  • February 24, 2011
• On Climate Variability And Resource-Dependent Wealth Dynamics: The Case of Ethiopian Pastoralists
  • Paulo Santos and Chris Barrett
  • Presentation at Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
  • January 20, 2011

2010

• 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.
• Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
  • Sommarat Chantarat and Chris Barrett
  • Seminar at Watson Institute, Brown University
  • October 13, 2010.
• Index-based Insurance: Financial Innovations for Development and Conservation
  • Lecture to Cornell JGSM Executive MBA students
  • July 30, 2010.
• A stochastic dominance approach to program evaluation And an application to child nutritional status in arid and semi-arid Kenya
  • Felix Naschold (Cornell University & University of Wyoming), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell University)
  • Annual meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
  • Denver, Colorado, July 2010.
• A Century-Long Perspective on Agricultural Development
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and C. Peter Timmer
  • Annual meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
  • Denver, Colorado, July 2010.
• Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non-random Reflections
  • Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter
  • Annual meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
  • Denver, Colorado, July 2010.
• Idiosyncratic Shocks and Welfare Dynamics in Akwapim South District: Some Preliminary Results
  • Andrew Adjei-Holmes (ISSER, UoG), Ernest Aryeetey (ISSER, UoG), Christopher Barrett (Cornell University), Robert Darko Osei (ISSER, UoG), Thomas Walker (Cornell University)
  • ISSER, 15th July, 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.
• Smallholder Market Participation in Evolving Agricultural Value Chains: Comparative Evidence From Three Continents
  • Chris Barrett, Maren Bachke, Marc Bellemare, Hope Michelson, Sudha Narayanan, Tom Walker
  • FAO, Rome, June 3, 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.
• The Performance of Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): Ex Ante Assessment in the Presence of a Poverty Trap
  • Index Insurance Innovation Initiative Scientific Meeting, January 15-16, 2010.
• Index Insurance for Pro-poor Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of Hornbills in Southern Thailand
  • Biodiversity and Poverty Traps Workshop, Cornell University, February 5, 2010.

2009

• The Performance of Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): Ex Ante Assessment in the Presence of a Poverty Trap
  • ISS Seminar, Cornell University, October 27, 2009.
• Index-based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) for Northern Kenya Pastoralists
  • Institute for African Development, Cornell University, October 7, 2009.
• 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.
• Interactive Decision Support for Humanitarian Response: Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA)
  • 1st International Conference on Computational Sustainability, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 10, 2009.
• Synthesis of Recommendations
  • AGRA/ILRI Conference: "Towards Priority Actions for Market Development for African Farmers", Nairobi, Kenya. May 15, 2009.
• Challenges to Pro-Poor Market Development for African Agriculture
  • AGRA/ILRI Conference : "Towards Priority Actions for Market Development for African Farmers", Nairobi, Kenya. May 13, 2009.
• Incomplete Credit Markets and Commodity Marketing Behavior
  • Lafayette College seminar, Easton, PA. May 1, 2009.
• Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility
  • Institute for Social Sciences Theme Project Kickoff Lecture. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April 22, 2009 .
• Index-based Livestock Insurence : Logic and Design
  • International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. March 16, 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.

2008

• 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.
  • Online at: http://www.campaign.cornell.edu/events/opportunity/opportunity104.cfm
• 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.
• Poverty Traps and Social Protection
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. May 12, 2008.
• Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
  • 5th Midwest International Economic Development Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. May 2, 2008.
• Fractal Poverty Traps
  • Interview with Christopher B. Barrett
  • SAGA Audio Series Interview. April 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.
• Evolution of Horizontal Inequalities in Madagascar, 1999-2005
  • Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK. April 2008 .
• Modern Slavery
  • All Saints Church, Lansing, NY. January 27, 2008

     

    2007

• Poverty Traps and Social Protection
  • At Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. November 30, 2007.
• 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.
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the roles of risk and ability
  • Seminar at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. October 24, 2007.
• Food Aid: Policy Reforms and Targeting Performance
• USAID, Nairobi, Kenya. September 24, 2007.

• Poverty Traps and their Implication for Livestock Livelihoods Research and Policy
  • Seminar at the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. September 28, 2007.

• Poverty Traps and Social Protection
  • World Bank, Washington D.C. September 2007.

• Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
• Ohio State University seminar, Columbus, OH. May 3, 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.
• Stagnant Smallholder Agriculture? Rice Yield Dynamics in the Highlands of Madagascar
  • CIIFAD lecture series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. March 14, 2007.
• Small Holder Market Participation: Concepts and Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa
  • At Staple Food Trade and Market Policy Options for Promoting Development in Eastern and Southern Africa, Rome, Italy. March 1-2, 2007.

    2006

• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the roles of risk and ability
• Michigan State University guest lecture, East Lansing, MI. September 14, 2006.
• Informal Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia
• At a Michigan State University, MI. September 14, 2006.
• Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield The Highest Payoff?
• AAEA Symposium on Food Aid Controversies in an Era of Policy Reform, Long Beach, CA. July 2006.
• Reforming International Food Aid
• Chicago Public Radio - Worldview with Jerome McDonnell. Date Aired: July 26, 2006.
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: on the roles of risk and ability
• Conference on Pastoralism and Poverty Reduction in East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. June 27-28, 2006.
• Poverty Traps and Resource Dynamics In Smallholder Agrarian Systems
  • International Conference on Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use at Wageningen University, Wageningen, Gelderland, the Netherlands. May 19, 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.
• Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. February 15, 2006.
  •   An earlier version was presented in May 2005 at USAID, Washington, D.C..
  • View the seminar here
• U.S. Food Aid: It's Not Your Parents' Program Any More!
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. February 13, 2006.
  • View the seminar here
• 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.
• The Social Economics of Poverty
  • International Food Policy Research Institute seminar, Washington. February 1, 2006.
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the roles of risk and ability
  • University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana seminar, IL. January 27, 2006.

    2005

• 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.
• Food Aid, American Agriculture, the World Trade Organization and International Development
  • J.W. Fanning Memorial Lecture at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. November 4, 2005.
• PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer
  • Interview with Jim Lehrer and Chris Barrett
  • Niger. August 4, 2005.
• Risk and Asset Management in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Implications for Growth and Social Protection
  • World Bank/DfID Conference at the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. June 2005.
• Missed opportunities and missing markets: Spatio-temporal arbitrage of rice in Madagascar
  • World Bank seminar, Washington D.C. May 18, 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.

    2004

• 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.
• Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar (4 MB)
  • 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.
• Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: An Asset-based Approach
  • American Economic Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, PA. January 2005.
• Does Food Aid Really Have Disincentive Effects? New Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
  • CIIFAD weekly seminar at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 10, 2004.
• Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role (2 mb)
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. April 14, 2004.
  • A variant of this was delivered in February 2004 at the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA), in March 2004 at the Columbia University School of Public Affairs (New York, NY), in April 2004 at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), and in June 2004 at the World Bank (Washington, D.C.).
• African Food Security and Natural Resources Management Program presentations
• USAID BASIS CRSP Program presentations