Lecture: Feeding the world
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Sun Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Prabhu Pingali is Head of the Agricultural Policy and Statistics Agriculture Development Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He formerly served as Director of the Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations and has over twenty-five years of experience in analyzing food, agriculture and development policy in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Pingali has authored nine books and over 90 refereed journal articles and book chapters on food policy, technological change, productivity growth and resource management in the developing world. Part of the World Affairs Series and 2009 BIGMAP Symposium - Food and Fuel Crops: Issues, Policies, and Regulation.
Dr. Prabhu Pingali was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as a Foreign Fellow in May 2007. He was the President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) from 2003-2006. He was elected Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2006. Also in 2006, he was appointed to the U.S. National Academies Round Table on Sustainability. He co-chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Panel's working group on Future Scenarios. An Indian national he earned a Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University in 1982. He was Director of the Economics Program at CIMMYT, Mexico from 1996-2002. Prior to joining CIMMYT, he worked at the International Rice Research Institute at Los Baños, Philippines from 1987 to 1996 as an Agricultural Economist, and prior to that at the World Bank's Agriculture and Rural Development Department from 1982-1987 as an economist. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Food Research Institute, and an Affiliate professor at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños. He has received several international awards and recognitions for his work.