India’s ranking in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI’s) 2017 Global Hunger Index has invited much comment and criticism among India’s intellectual elite. India has slipped to 100 among 119 countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index, down from 97 among the 118 countries in 2016. Fortunately, the Government of India’s National Nutrition Strategy […]
Uma Lele, “a leader in the world of economic development,” receives Dyson’s Wharton Award
Uma Lele, MS ’63, PhD ’65, never considered herself a trailblazer—not when she became the first woman to earn a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell and not when she became one of the first employees of the World Bank and the rare woman traveling on international missions in the 1970s. But her distinguished career […]
IAAE Election Results Dear IAAE Members, On behalf of the IAAE Board, I am pleased to announce the results of the recent on-line elections for the IAAE Board of Directors for 2018-21. The successful candidates were: President Elect: Uma Lele Members-at-Large: Chris Barrett, Cheryl Doss and Matin Qaim These new members have joined President Nick Vink, , Past […]
Changing Roles of Forests and their Cross- Sectorial Linkages in the Course of Economic Development
This is one of three background papers commissioned by the United Nations Forum for Forests. Background paper 1: Focuses on economic contributions of forests, by Agrawal, Shepherd and Cashore; Background Paper 2: Forests and cross-sectorial linkages, by Lele, Karsenty, Benson, Fétiveau, Agarwal and Goswami; and Background paper 3: The role of forests in a future […]
Good governance for food, water and energy security
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Key issues in Evaluating Carbon Sequestration from Avoided Deforestation
Evaluating initiatives such as REDD include many of the old challenges evaluators have confronted but it also include new challenges.