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APPENDIX A: COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
APPENDIX A: COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Pages 243-248
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He served 10 years as the International Food Policy Research Institute's Director General and seven years as department head; seven years as an economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia; and six years as a distinguished professor at Wageningen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate and the recipient of several awards for his teaching, research and communication of research results.
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Jury is conducting research in field measurement and modeling of preferential flow of chemicals, chemical transport at low water content, unstable flow of water in soil, global water management, and sequential reuse of agricultural drainage water. He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union.
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She has served on various international expert committees, such as the National Academy of Sciences, the International Zinc in Nutrition Consultative Group, and the Society for International Nutrition Research. Her current research focuses on the evaluation and strengthening of social protection programs and targeted nutrition interventions to foster human capital formation.
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Dr. Stamoulis's major focuses include: the potential of the rural economy for growth and poverty reduction; changes in food systems and commercialization with effects on smallholders, rural development and rural poverty; analysis of trends in rural development analysis and practice; seed markets as a means of promoting the sustainable utilization of crop genetic resources; introducing food security objectives and policies in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; and behavioral economics and development policy.
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in economics from the University of California at Davis. PAUL VLEK, 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.
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