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Infrastructure spend: insights from the effect of a bridge across the Zambezi on maize prices
Investments in infrastructure – such as roads – typically aim to reduce transport costs, stimulate trade, and make new production activities viable...
Project meeting
Policymakers' responses to food price crises
Policymakers' responses to food price crises: Results from a 14-Country political economy study
2 May 2013
International Food Policy Research Institute , 2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States
Past event
In the media
UNU-WIDER experts and the WIDER Development Conference featured in the media
Kalle Hirvonen, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, was interviewed by YLE for a news article published on 10 March 2022 on the effects of the Ukraine war on global food security. ‘The war in Ukraine is causing a major supply shock to the world food market...
Policy seminar
Food price policy in an era of market instability - a political economy analysis
4 March 2015
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
Past event
Presentation
Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in Vietnam
Presented at: A Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen: New Direction in the Fight Against hunger and Malnutrition. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Presentation See full programme New directions in the fight against hunger and...
13 December 2013
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14 December 2013
Cornell University, 109 Tower Rd, Ithaca, United States
Past event
Video
Food Production Systems
Conference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 3.3
Project meeting
Political economy of food price policy
This was the third and final meeting of participants in the Political Economy of Food Price Policy project, which is jointly led by UNU-WIDER, Cornell University, and the University of Copenhagen and partially supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates...
10 July 2012
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12 July 2012
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past event
Workshop
Second project workshop of the political economy of food price policy
Collaborating Institutions in this project were Cornell University and the University of Copenhagen. Please refer to the research page for more information: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy.
24 February 2012
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25 February 2012
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Menelik II Ave, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Past event
Workshop
The political economy of food price policy
Please refer to the The Political Economy of Food Price Policy project page for more information.
4 April 2011
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5 April 2011
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen, Nørregade 10, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past event
Conference
UNU-WIDER 25th Anniversary Conference: The Triple Crisis – Finance, Food and Climate Change
In the 25 years of UNU-WIDER’s existence both foundational and responsive research have been carried out, aiming to be innovative and relevant in advancing development economics research and policy-making with a strong focus on poverty reduction and...
13 May 2010
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15 May 2010
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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