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Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?
May 2013
Effective water management is one key element of agricultural innovation and growth.
Africa's Food Systems in 2030
February 2013
Paul Collier will talk about how to manage the difference between helpful and damaging commercialisation, and puts forth three arguments.
Biofuels: The changing nature of agricultural demand
April 2012
Policies promoting ethanol and biodiesel production and use in the U.S., Europe, and other parts of the world since the mid-2000s have had profound—and largely unintended—consequences on global food prices, agricultural land values, land...
Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Toward the identification of appropriate rural development strategies
January 2012
Thom Jayne, Professor of International Development from Michigan State University will answer the following questions: What are the trends in land access?
Climate change and agricultural adaptation
December 2011
What should food policy experts understand about future climate and how it will affect food security? What don't we know?
African Agricultural R&D and Productivity Growth in a Global Setting
October 2011
Trends in productivity and investments in technology. Survey of constraints to productivity, incentives and investment, and opportunities to raise productivity.
Towards Food Security in a Warmer World: Understanding Crop Responses to Climate
October 2010
FSE Fellow David Lobell presented his work on climate impacts on crop production at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara, CA.