Uma Lele's Blog http://www.umalele.org Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:19:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.umalele.org/content/view/181/32/ Global Food and Agricultural Institutions: Cosmology of International Development Assistance Uma Lele download text (images/stories/documents/lele%20-%20global%20food%20and%20agricultural%20institutions.pdf) link to Wiley Interscience (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117999581/home) Uma's Blog - Global Policy Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:37:22 +0100 http://www.umalele.org/content/view/178/32/ McNamara’s Contribution to Food, Agriculture and Rural Development: Challenges It Poses for the Present GenerationUma Lele The implications of Robert McNamara’s substantial contribution to global food, agriculture and poverty reduction are worth a reflection on the eve of his passing. It is also timely. The World Food Program’s Executive Director stressed at the G 8 meeting in 2009 that WFP’s food aid requirements will likely exceed those of 2008, when WFP’s food aid to the billion poor was already $5 billion. Food aid was larger than the total combined financial commitments to food and agricultural development of the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), key international agencies concerned with food and agriculture, reviewed in a pioneering book on global food and agricultural institutionsLink to 1818 Society (http://1818members.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/remembering-robert-s-mcnamara/#comment-22) Uma's Blog - Poverty Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:18:15 +0100 http://www.umalele.org/content/view/177/32/ New IAAE Best Contributed Paper on Gender Award “This is exciting news to my family and me. I am short of words in appreciating the selection committee that selected my paper for this priceless award” says the first winner Professor Adebayo B Aromolaran of the IAAE AWARD for Best Contributed Paper on the Role of Gender in economic development being launched in perpetuity in Beijing on August 21, 2009 by Dr. Uma Lele. The recipient is getting a $1000 prize. The award is based on a trust fund Uma Lele has established with IAAE. Professor Adebayo B Aromolaran is at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. The topic of his paper is: “Does Increase in Women’s Income Relative to Men’s Income Increase Food Calorie Intake in Poor Households?: Evidence from Nigeria”. Uma's Blog - Environment Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:25:24 +0100 http://www.umalele.org/content/view/175/ Recognized international leader and thinker, analyst and manager of interdisciplinary professionals to address international policy issues of poverty, food, agriculture, health, environment, global public goods, and external assistance, seasoned in teaching and mentoring students, mobilizing human and financial resources on an international scale and in convening leaders of the public and private sectors, nongovernmental and international organizations to debate critical development issues, in achieving consensus to realize concrete results and in effecting policy changes.Read more (images/stories/documents/uma_cv_may_19.pdf) Home - Home Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:22:33 +0100 http://www.umalele.org/content/view/173/32/ Like millions of others I've been angered and saddened by the terrorist attacks on Mumbai. While I've live in the U.S. for several decades, I spent much of my youth in Mumbai. Mumbai is not a place of terror but a place of close friendship and love among people of many cultures. Read more... (http://www.feer.com/authors-corner/2008/december/my-mumbai) Uma's Blog - Poverty Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:29:11 +0100