Highlights

IFPRI Forum - October 2008

Lead article examines African leaders' pledge to allocate 10 percent of their budgets to agriculture by 2008. Commentary discusses the benefits of cooperation between agriculture and health in research, policymaking, and practice. Interview with Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/newsletters/IFPRIForum/if200810.asp

Helping Women Respond to the Global Food Price Crisis

Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Lucy Bassett, et al.

Examines the gender dimensions of the food price crisis and recommends focusing on women's roles in agricultural production and household welfare to craft more effective policies.

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/bp/bp007.asp

The Development Promise: Can the Doha Development Agenda Deliver for Least-Developed Countries?

Valdete Berisha-Krasniqi, Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, and Simon Mevel

Concludes that benefits for the least-developed countries in the May 2008 proposal are negligible and recommends that WTO negotiators make a supplementary effort in favor of the poorest countries.

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/ib/in14.asp