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Blog Post
February 24, 2012
This is a joint post with Peter Timmer and Julie Walz.
“If you care about the poorest, you care about agriculture,” declared Bill Gates in a high-profile speech in Rome yesterday, at a meeting of the Global Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development. IFAD is one of the three ...
Blog Post
June 29, 2011
This post is co-authored by Vijaya Ramachandran
Last week, the G-20 agriculture ministers meeting in Paris issued a communiqué calling for the World Food Programme to develop hedging strategies to purchase food. In a little-noticed section towards the end of a 24-page document, the ministers s...