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Presentations by Chris Barrett

Please Note: Most of these presentations are in Microsoft Power Point format. In order to view these, you must have Power Point installed on your computer OR have downloaded the free Power Point viewer from the Microsoft web site.

Some of these presentations are quite large and are best suited for those with high-speed Internet connections.

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2008

• Stimulating Agricultural and Rural Stimulation in Sub-Saharan Africa (StART)
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Cornell Association of Professors Emerti (CAPE) , May 14, 2008.
• Poverty Traps and Social Protection
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and Munenobu Ikegami
  • Cornell University, May 12, 2008.
• Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
  • Presentation by:
    • Sommarat Chantarat and Christopher B. Barrett
  • 5th Midwest International Economic Development ConferenceMadison, WisconsinMay 2, 2008
• Fractal Poverty Traps
  • Interview with:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • SAGA Audio Series Interview, April 2008
    
• Fractal Poverty Traps: Madagascar
  • Interview with:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • SAGA Audio Series Interview, April 2008
• Pastoralists in Africa
  • Interview with:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • SAGA Audio Series Interview, April 2008
• Ending Hunger: "Glocal" Solutions
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Ithaca Hunger Banquet, April 17 2008.
• Evolution of Horizontal Inequalities in Madagascar, 1999-2005
  • Presentation by:
    • David Stifel (Lafayette), Felix Forster (Lafayette), Chris Barrett (Cornell)
  • Oxford University, April 2008
• Modern Slavery

• Presentation by:
  • Christopher B. Barrett
• All Saints Church, Lansing NY, January 27, 2008

   

  2007

• Poverty Traps and Social Protection
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Purdue University, November 30, 2007
• Global Hunger, Trade, and North American Food Aid: What has Changed and What still Needs to Change
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • University of Manitoba and Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Network, November 29, 2007
• Food Systems and the Escape from Poverty and Hunger Traps in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Cornell University, November 2007

• Towards Goal-Oriented, Evidence-Based U.S. Food Aid Policy
• Presentation by:
  • Christopher B. Barrett
• OXFAM Expert Panel on Food Aid & The Farm Bill: Improving A Lifeline
  Washington, DC, October 29, 2007
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the roles of risk and ability
  • Presentation by:
    • Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
  • Seminar at North Carolina State University on October 24, 2007
• Food Aid: Policy Reforms and Targeting Performance
• Presentation by:
  • Christopher B. Barrett
• Delivered on September 24, 2007, at Nairobi, Kenya for USAID

• Poverty Traps and their Implication for Livestock Livelihoods Research and Policy
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Delivered on September 28, 2007 at Seminar at International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

• Poverty Traps and Social Protection
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and Munenobu Ikegami
  • Delivered in September 2007

• Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility, and Poverty Traps
• Presentation by:
  • Christopher B. Barrett and Sommarat Chantarat
• Delivered on May 03, 2007 at Ohio State University

 

• Global Hunger and U.S. Food Aid: What has Changed and What Still Needs to Change

• Presentation by:
  • Christopher B. Barrett
• Delivered on April 03, 2007 at The University of South Carolina


• Stagnant Smallholder Agriculture? Rice Yield Dynamics in the Highlands of Madagascar
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Delivered on March 14, 2007 at Cornell University for the CIIFAD lecture series.
  
  
• Small Holder Market Participation: Concepts and Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Delivered on March 1-2, 2007 at Staple Food Trade and Market Policy Options for Promoting Development in Eastern and Southern Africa

    2006

• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the roles of risk and ability
• Presentation by:
  • Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
• Delivered on September 14, 2006 at Michigan State University
• Informal Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia
• Presentation by:
  • Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett
• Delivered on September 14, 2006 at Michigan State University
• Improving Food Aid: What Reforms Would Yield The Highest Payoff?
• Presentation by:
  • Erin Lentz and Chris Barrett
• Delivered July 2006 Long Beach, CA
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: on the roles of risk and ability
• Presentation by:
  • Paulo Santos and Chris Barrett
• Delivered at Conference on Pastoralism and Poverty Reduction in East Africa Nairobi, 27-28 June 2006
• Reforming International Food Aid
• Presentation by:
  • Chris Barrett
• Date Aired: July 26, 2006 Chicago Public Radio - Worldview with Jerome McDonnell
• Poverty Traps and Resource Dynamics In Smallholder Agrarian Systems
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered in May, 17 2006, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
• U.S. Food Aid After Fifteen Years
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered in March 2006, Washington D.C.
• Livestock Market and Mortality Risk in East Africa
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on February 28, 2006, Cornell University Veterinary School
• Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar
  • Presentation by:
    • Bart Minten and Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on February 15, 2006, Cornell University  (Earlier version presented in May 2005 at USAID, Washington, DC)
  • View the seminar here
• U.S. Food Aid: It's Not Your Parents' Program Any More!
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on February 13, 2006, Cornell University
  • View the seminar here
• Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on February 7, 2006, Cornell University's Mann Library
  • View the presentation here
• Towards A Global Food Aid Compact
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on February 2, 2006, USAID/Washington seminar (Earlier version presented in January 2006 at University of Illinois and in September 2005 at Cornell University)
• The Social Economics of Poverty
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on February 1, 2006, International Food Policy Research Institute seminar
• Mann Library Book Talk
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Mann Library, Cornell University, February 2006
• Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On The Role of Risk and Ability
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on January 27, 2006, University of Illinois seminar

    2005

• An Asset-Based Approach To Poverty Dynamics and Safety Nets: Research and Policy Questions
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett and Michael Carter
  • Delivered on November 7, 2005, InterAmerican Development Bank seminar
• Food Aid, American Agriculture, the World Trade Organization and International Development
  • J.W. Fanning Memorial Lecture presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered on November 4, 2005, University of Georgia
• PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer
  • Interview with:
    • Jim Lehrer
    • Chris Barrett
  • Conducted on August 4, 2005 in Niger
• Risk and Asset Management in the Presence of Poverty Trap
  • Presentation by:
    • Chris Barrett
  • Delivered in June 2005, World Bank/DfID Conference at the University of Leuven, Belgium
• Missed opportunities and missing markets: Spatio-temporal arbitrage of rice in Madagascar
  • Presentation by:
    • Christine Moser, Chris Barrett and Bart Minten 
  • Delivered on May 18, 2005, World Bank seminar
• Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role in Support of MDG#1
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Presentation to Senior Executives of Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, MD, May 19, 2005
• Poverty Traps, Safety Nets and Sustainability
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Delivered on April 28, 2005 at the Robin Hill Seminar, Cornell University

    2004

• Inclusive Agricultural and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (9 MB)
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Delivered at the USAID BASIS CRSP Policy Conference, Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa in Washington, DC, November 15, 2004
• Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar (4 MB)
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
    • Paswel Marenya
    • John McPeak
    • Bart Minten
    • Festus Murithi
    • Willis Oluoch-Kosura
    • Frank Place
    • Jean Claude Randrianarisoa
    • Jhon Rasambainarivo
    • Justine Wangila
  • Delivered at the USAID BASIS CRSP Policy Conference, Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa in Washington, DC, November 15, 2004
• Assets, Poverty Traps and Rights (5 MB)
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Delivered in Washington, DC, December 9, 2004
• Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: An Asset-based Approach
  • Presentation by:
    • Michael R. Carter, University of Wisconsin
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Delivered at the American Economic Association annual meetings in Philadelphia, January 2005
• Does Food Aid Really Have Disincentive Effects? New Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Presentation by:
    • Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel (Germany)
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
    • John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Delivered at the CIIFAD weekly seminar at Cornell University, November 10, 2004
• Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role (2 mb)
  • Presentation by Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell) and Dan Maxwell (CARE)
  • A variant of this was delivered in February 2004 at the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA), in March 2004 at the Columbia University School of Public Affairs (New York, NY), in April 2004 at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), and in June 2004 at the World Bank (Washington, DC).
• African Food Security and Natural Resources Management Program presentations
• USAID BASIS CRSP Program presentations

last updated January 30, 2007

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