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Some of these presentations are quite large and are best suited for those with high-speed Internet connections. Presentations are in English unless otherwise noted.

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• Inclusive Agricultural and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (9 MB)
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Delivered at the USAID BASIS CRSP Policy Conference, Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa in Washington, DC, November 15, 2004
• Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar (4 MB)
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett
    • Paswel Marenya
    • John McPeak
    • Bart Minten
    • Festus Murithi
    • Willis Oluoch-Kosura
    • Frank Place
    • Jean Claude Randrianarisoa
    • Jhon Rasambainarivo
    • Justine Wangila
  • Delivered at the USAID BASIS CRSP Policy Conference, Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa in Washington, DC, November 15, 2004
• Assets, Poverty Traps and Rights (5 MB)
  • Presentation by:
    • Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
  • Delivered in Washington, DC, December 9, 2004

Presentations from the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting

• Linking Institutional Partnerships, Community Groups and Rural Livelihood Improvement in Kenya
  • Note: This file is very large (47 mb). Please right-click the link, and choose "Save As," to download the file to your computer.
  • Presentation by David M. Amudavi (Cornell)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar: Preliminary Quantitative Findings (2.5 mb)
  • Presentation by Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• Some Results of Qualitative Research from Madagascar (<1mb)
  • Presentation by Jean Fidele, Bart and John Rasambainarivo (FOFIFA)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• Soils Collection for Analysis (<1mb)
  • Presentation by John Rasambainarivo (FOFIFA)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• Ray Production Function Estimates for the Maize-Bean Mixed Crop System in Madzuu (<1mb)
  • Presentation by Doug Brown (Cornell) and Chris Barrett (Cornell)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• Social Networks and Technology Adoption (<1mb)
  • Presentation by Heidi Hogset (Cornell)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• The Interplay Between Smallholder Farmers and Fragile Tropical Agroecosystems in the Kenyan Highlands (9.6 mb)
  • Presentation by A.N. Pell (Cornell) and D.M. Mbugua (Cornell, ICRAF)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• Social Aspects of Dynamic Poverty Traps: Cases from Vihiga, Baringo and Marsabit Districts (<1mb)
  • Presentation by Nelson Mango (ILRI), Festus Murithi (KARI, HQ) and Frank Place (ICRAF)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya
• Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Analyzing Poverty Dynamics (6 mb)
  • Presentation by Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell)
  • Delivered March 15, 2004 at the Fourth Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Outspan Hotel, Nyeri, Kenya

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• Bayesian Herders: Optimistic Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts
  • Presentation by Travis J. Lybbert (Cornell), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell), John G. McPeak (Syracuse/Cornell) and Winnie K. Luseno (Cornell)
  • Delivered February 16, 2004 at the Development Economics Seminar, University of California, Berkeley
  • Berkeley, CA
• Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role
  • Presentation by Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell) and Dan Maxwell (CARE)
  • Delivered February 20, 2004 at the Agricultural Resource Economics Seminar, University of California, Davis
  • Davis, CA
• Food Aid for Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Presentation by Awudu Abdulai (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), Christopher B. Barrett (Cornell) and Peter Hazell (IFPRI)
  • Delivered at The International Food Policy Research Institute
  • January 12, 2004
  • Washington, D.C.
• Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar
  • Presentation by Christopher B. Barrett, Paswel P. Marenya, John McPeak, Bart Minten, Festus Murithi, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Frank Place, Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, Jhon Rasambainarivo and Justine Wangila
  • Delivered at the USAID BASIS CRSP Pre-conference Workshop on “Combatting Persistent Poverty in Africa”
  • November 14-15, 2003
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• Food Aid: Past, Present and Future*
  • *Based on book w/ Dan Maxwell, Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role
  • Presentation by Christopher Barrett
  • Fall 2003
• Poverty Traps and Safety Nets
  • Presentation by Christopher Barrett and John McPeak
  • October 10, 2003
• Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: Maximizing Complementarities, Minimizing Tradeoffs
  • Presentation by Christopher Barrett
  • Delivered at the Learning Workshop of the 25^th International Conference of Agricultural Economists
  • August 16, 2003
  • Durban, South Africa
• Rural Poverty Dynamics: Development Policy Implications
  • Presentation by Christopher Barrett
  • Delivered at the 25^th International Conference of Agricultural Economists
  • August 2003
  • Durban, South Africa
• Rural Poverty Dynamics: Development Policy Implications
  • Presentation by Christopher Barrett and Festus Murithi
  • Delivered at the USAID BASIS CRSP TC Meeting
  • August 2003
  • Pumula Beach Hotel, Umzumbe, South Africa
• Smallholder Identities and Social Networks: The Challenge of Improving Productivity and Welfare
  • Presentation by Christopher Barrett
  • Delivered at the AAEA annual meetings
  • July 2003
  • Montreal, Canada
• Applications of System Dynamics to Modeling Poverty Traps and Land Degradation in East Africa
  • Presentation by B.N. Okumu
  • Delivered at the AAEA annual meetings
  • July 2003
  • Montreal, Canada
• Reaching Policy Makers and Policy Processes in Kenya
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • ICRAF - KARI - Universite de Nairobi
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• The Coveted Corridor: An eco-regional approach to population, environment and development issues in the Province of Fianarantsoa (18 mb)
  • Presentation by Mark S. Freudenberger, Regional Director, LDI Fianarantsoa
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• First Results on the Quantitative Data Analysis in Madagascar
  • Presentation by Jean Claude Randrianarisoa
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• Modeling Livelihood Choice and Poverty Traps
  • English Version
  • French Version
  • Presentation by Chris Barrett and Larry Blume
  • Delivered at the BASIS CRSP Project Stakeholder Consultation, as part of the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11, 2003
• Discussion of Prototype Crops, Livestock and Soil in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model Presently Under Development: A Work in Progress
  • Presentation by Ben Okumu
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• Introducing Cornell University and the USAID Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems Collaborative Research Support Program (BASIS CRSP)
  • English Version
  • French Version
  • Delivered at the BASIS CRSP Project Stakeholder Consultation, as part of the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
• L’expérience du programme Ilo (French)
  • Presentation by Bart Minten
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• AGRICULTURE ET PAUVRETE: Synthèse Des Connaissances Et Implications Pour La Politique Economique Au Madagascar (French)
  • Presentation by Chris Barrett
  • Delivered as part of the CONFĒRENCE «AGRICULTURE ET PAUVRETĒ» 
• AGRICULTURE ET PAUVRETE: Synthèse Des Connaissances Et Implications Pour La Politique Economique Au Madagascar (French)
  • Presentation by Christine Moser and Chris Barrett
  • Delivered as part of the CONFĒRENCE «AGRICULTURE ET PAUVRETĒ» 
• Progress Report - Embu
  • Presentation by J.O.Ouma, J.Oduol and F.M.Murithi
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• Siaya – Vihiga Survey Data Collection and Analysis
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• Siaya – Vihiga Site - Second Presentation
  • Presentation by Justine Wangila
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• Madzu Research: Progress and Way Ahead
  • Presentation by Paswel Phiri
  • Delivered at the Third Annual USAID BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • March 11 - March 16, 2003
• Research Activities Under the BASIS CRSP Project
  • Presentation by Chris Barrett and Festus Murithi
  • Delivered October 11, 2002 to the USAID BASIS CRSP Technical Committee
  • College Park, Maryland
• Applications of System Dynamics to Modeling Poverty Traps and Land Degradation in East Africa
  • Presentation by Ben Okumu
  • Delivered at the August 2002 annual meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association
  • Long Beach, CA
• Presentation by Chris Barrett to USAID
  • Delivered March 19, 2002
  • Washington, D.C.
• Presentation by Chris Barrett on BASIS CRSP project
  • Delivered February 2002
  • Madagascar
  • (Presentation is in French).
• Presentation by Chris Barrett to various organizations
  • Delivered February 2002
  • Kenya
• Presentation by Chris Barrett to the 2001 BASIS CRSP Team Meeting
  • Delivered June 2001
  • Kerugoya, Kenya
• Presentation by Chris Barrett to USAID BASIS CRSP Technical Committee
  • Delivered November 9, 2000
  • Madison, Wisconsin

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