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C BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: PLANNING COMMITTEE, SPEAKERS AND STAFF
C BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: PLANNING COMMITTEE, SPEAKERS AND STAFF
Pages 90-100
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His research and teaching include economic analyses of food and nutrition policy, globalization and poverty, agricultural development, the interaction between the food system and human health and nutrition, and agricultural research and technology policy. TIM BENTON is Research Dean in the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds, and Professor of Population Ecology.
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and associate professor at Michigan State University. For most of his career he worked in several postings in Africa, Latin America and Asia conducting field research on agricultural technological change and food policy.
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. He has published books and articles in the fields of production economics, development economics, agricultural policy and environmental economics.
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BRIAN GREENBERG is the Director of Sustainable Development at InterAction, an alliance of US NGOs engaged in international development and humanitarian assistance. His experience in rural development extends from sustainable agriculture and natural resource management to capacity building for NGOs and communities.
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is a senior program officer with the National Academies Policy and Global Affairs Division. She has been the staff lead for a number of workshops and studies including one examining federal R&D activities related to urban sustainability, a regional workshop assessing the sustainability impacts of biofuels, and work on global food security.
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JEFFREY MILDER is an ecologist and land-use planner with fourteen years of experience in the field of conservation and sustainable development. He has worked with EcoAgriculture Partners since 2005, first as a Research Fellow associated with the Landscape Measures Initiative and payment for ecosystem services projects, and currently as Director of Strategic Planning and Research.
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Recently David coordinated a global program involving over 700 participants to produce a Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, with results documented in the publication Water for Food, Water for Life. The assessment examines trends, conditions, challenges and responses in water management for agriculture to enable effective investments and management decisions for enhancing food and environmental security.
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Previously he was a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC where he led the institute's Science and Technology Policy Program, and prior to 1994 at the International Service for National Agricultural Research in The Hague, Netherlands. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, Australia, and obtained a doctoral degree in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Minnesota.
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is currently an independent consultant on international development issues, with a focus on food, agriculture, and Africa. She serves on the boards of several organizations engaged in international agriculture and global development more broadly: the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and MS in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia. MAXIMO TORERO is the Division Director of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute, leader of the Global Research Program on Institutions and Infrastructure for Market Development and Director for Latin America.
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, a Soil Scientist, is Professor and Director of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn, a federally funded multidisciplinary research and teaching institute concerning sustainable development issues. Prior to accepting this post, he was a Professor and Director at the Institute of Agronomy in the Tropics at Georg-August University in Goettingen.
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