Presentations and Media
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USAID BASIS CRSP Presentations (on USAID BASIS CRSP project web site)
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Bayesian Herders: Optimistic Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to
External Forecasts
- Presentation by Travis J. Lybbert (Cornell), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), John G. McPeak (Syracuse/Cornell) and Winnie K. Luseno (Cornell)
- Delivered February 16, 2004 at the Development Economics Seminar, University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley, CA
- 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).
- Food
Aid for Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Presentation by Awudu Abdulai (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell) and Peter Hazell (IFPRI)
- Delivered January 12, 2004 at The International Food Policy Research Institute
- Washington, D.C.
- Assessing
the value of climate forecast information for pastoralists: Evidence from
southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya
- Presentation by Winnie K. Luseno (Cornell), John G. McPeak (Cornell/Syracuse), Peter D. Little (Kentucky) and Getachew Gebru (ILRI/Utah State)
- Delivered December 6, 2002 at the African Studies Association annual meetings
- Washington, D.C.
- Poverty
traps and their implications for tropical biodiversity conservation
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell)
- Delivered December 5, 2002
- The Poverty and Biodiversity Distinguished Lecture, Conservation International
- Washington, D.C.
- Nature,
Wealth and Power: Emerging Best Practice for Revitalizing Rural Africa
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell), Jon Anderson (USAID/AFR/SD) and Peter Veit (World Resources Institute)
- Delivered November 15, 2002 at a public symposium on Nature, Wealth and Power at the World Resources Institute
- Washington, D.C.
- See discussion paper below for more information...
- Paper: Nature, Wealth and Power: Emerging Best Practice for Revitalizing Rural Africa
- Discussion paper by the Environment & Natural Resources Team of the Sustainable
- Development Office in USAID’s Africa Bureau (AFR/SD) resources).
- Main contributors: Jon Anderson (team leader), Asif Shaikh, Chris Barrett, Peter Veit, Jesse Ribot, Bob Winterbottom, Mike McGahuey and Roy Hagen.
- Background paper for November 15, 2002, public symposium on Nature, Wealth and Power at the World Resources Institute
- "While the fate of Africa’s natural resources cannot be separated from the broader context of economic and development challenges, neither can Africa’s economic and development future be separated from the management of its natural resources. Building on lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource–based development in rural Africa, this document presents principles and action steps that can serve as a guide to investment there."
- Poverty
traps and their implication for the USAID Global Livestock CRSP
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell)
- Delivered October 9, 2002 at the Global Livestock CRSP annual meetings
- Washington, D.C.
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Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: Maximizing Complementarities,
Minimizing Tradeoffs
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell)
- Delivered August 2002 at a Rockefeller Foundation workshop at Wageningen University
- Netherlands
- Social
Identity and Manipulative Interhousehold Transfers among East Africa Pastoralists
- Presentation by Marieke Huysentruyt (L.S.E.), Christopher Barrett (Cornell), and John McPeak (Cornell/Syracuse)
- Delivered May 2002 at the 2002 Pew Project annual team meeting
- Perinton, NY
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Assessing the value of climate forecast information for pastoralists: Evidence
from southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya
- Presentation by Winnie K. Luseno (Cornell), John G. McPeak (Cornell/Syracuse), Christopher Barrett (Cornell), Getachew Gebru (ILRI/Utah State) and Peter D. Little (Kentucky)
- Delivered March 2002 at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
- New York, NY
- Decomposing
Producer Price Risk: An Analysis of Livestock Markets in Northern Kenya
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell) and Winnie Luseno (Cornell)
- Delivered July 2001 at the Western Agricultural Economics Association annual meetings
- Logan, UT
- Global
Livestock CRSP Pastoral Risk Management (PARIMA) Project
- Presentation on preliminary PARIMA research findings by Christopher Barrett (Cornell), Peter Little, John McPeak (Cornell/Syracuse) and Getachew Gebru (ILRI/Utah State)
- Delivered June 2001 at Egerton University
- Njoro, Kenya
- Microfinance
in Northern Kenya: the experience of Kenya Rural Enterprise Program
- Presentation by Sharon Osterloh, Masters Candidate, Cornell University
- Delivered June 2001 at Egerton University
- Njoro, Kenya
- Technology
Adoption Decisions of Farmers Facing Seasonal Liquidity and Labor Constraints:
A Case Study of the System of Rice Intensification in Madagascar
- Presentation by Christine Moser in defense of her MS thesis, Cornell University
- Delivered March 12, 2001
- Ithaca, NY
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Poverty, Food Security and Environmental Stress in Developing Areas
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell) on his research program and work with graduate students
- Delivered September 21, 2001 to the Cornell University Department of Natural Resources
- Ithaca, NY
- Sharing
a Home: Humans and Tropical Wildlife Conservation
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell)
- Delivered December 13, 2000 at Lansing Middle School to the 5th grade class
- Lansing, NY
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The challenge of improved natural resource management practices adoption
in African agriculture: A social science perspective
- Presentation by Christopher Barrett (Cornell), Frank Place (ICRAF), Abdillahi Aboud (Egerton University), and Doug Brown (Cornell)
- Delivered July 3, 2000 at a conference on, "The challenge of improved natural resource management practices adoption in African agriculture," at the International Centre for Research on Agroforestry
- Nairobi, Kenya