A Sustainability Challenge Food Security for All: Report of Two Workshops (2012) / Chapter Skim
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[Part I]: SPEAKER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
[Part I]: SPEAKER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Pages 79-86
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At WSU, her program focuses on quantifying the environmental impact of dairy and beef production systems, identifying the factors that contribute to mitigating resource use and greenhouse gas emissions and communicating the results to producers, consumer and policy-makers. Current projects include comparisons of the historical and modern US beef industry; evaluation of the effect of dairy breed on the environmental impact of cheese production; and quantifying the impact of performance-enhancing technologies on resource use and greenhouse gas emissions from beef production.
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, assisting the National Statistics Offices of the Region in improving basic data sources for the compilation of the main economic indicators. At the end of 2005 he became the Director of ESCAP Statistics Division, where he launched a new programme of statistical capacity building and redesigned the statistical dissemination strategy.
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She also contributes to the generation of new evidence by active maintenance of a research portfolio related to many aspects of nutrition and micronutrients, using diverse methodologies from surveys and other observational methods to randomized controlled trials and rigorous program effectiveness evaluations. Her areas of expertise include: nutritional factors affecting fetal and early childhood growth and development, causes, consequences and strategies to control anaemia and micronutrient malnutrition during pregnancy and early childhood and women's nutritional status during pregnancy.
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Dr. Polasky's research interests include ecosystem services; natural capital; biodiversity conservation; endangered species policy; integrating ecological and economic analysis; renewable energy; environmental regulation; and common property resources.
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He has taught courses in consumption economics, food marketing, microeconomic theory, world food problems, and agricultural development. He has co-authored two influential books: Food Trends and the Changing Consumer and Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization, which received the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
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At BASF SE Dirk Voeste previously had responsibilities in research as well as marketing functions. Among others he led the global Plant Health and Seed Treatment Research and was Head of the BASF SeedSolutions Business Development.
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HarvestChoice is a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that generates knowledge products to help guide strategic investments in improving the productivity and profitability of cropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Before joining IFPRI, Wood served as an independent consultant to multilateral and bilateral development organizations on natural resource, land use and agricultural systems modeling, based in Libya, Italy and Indonesia.
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