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CASID/WID Friday Forum

CASID/WID Friday Forum Fall 2008 Schedule

Center for Advanced Study of International Development and Women and International Development Program
International Center, Room 303
Noon - 1 p.m.

*Sep 12 Globalization in Reverse: The Impact of High Food Prices in West Africa John Staatz Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics
Sep 19 "Democratic Assertions: Exclusions, Historical Injustices and the Making of India's Forest rights Act" Kundan Kumar Dept. of CARRS
*Sep 26 The Impact of Global Change on Food Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa Jennifer Olson Dept. of Telecom., Information Studies & Media
*Oct 3 French Wine Confronts the Global Economy: Illustrations from Languedoc-Rousillon James Bingen Dept. of CARRS
Oct 10 TBA Bill Derman Dept. of Anthropology
*Oct 17 Who Owns Organic? Consolidation in an Emerging North American Food Industry Phil Howard Dept. of CARRS
Oct 24 Who Drives Resettlement? The Case of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Robert Hitchcock Dept. of Anthropology
*Nov 7 Rising World Food Prices and the Political Economy of Food in Eastern and Sothern Africa Thom Jayne Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Resources Economics
Nov 14 TBA    
*Nov 21 Is Food Security Achievable in a Nitrogen-Poor World with Finite Fertilizer? Sieglinde Snapp Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences
Dec 5 TBA    

*Re-Envisioning Food and Agriculture: The New Global Context

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