CIFAP | Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy

Workshops and Training

2004-2005

CIFAP supported the second Minnesota Economic Development Conference organized by Paul Glewwe, April 29-30, 2005, with a grant of $8,000. There were 100 attendees and the event was successful. It will be held again in 2006.

CIFAP developed and began implementing a project with the Hopkins Public Schools’ innovative school feeding programs. Gifts and grants in support of the project were procured from the Cargill Foundation ($50,000) and the McKnight Foundation ($85,000). Three M.S. students and one Ph.D. student were supported as part of this effort (see Student Support).

CIFAP helped organize and participated in the 9th Minnesota/Italy Conference on Food, Agriculture and the Environment, in Conegliano, near Treviso, Italy. Published conference proceedings have just been released.

Claudia Parliament, with CIFAP support, conducted a fact finding tour in the Free State Province of South Africa in January, 2005. She offered two workshops for teachers and ministry officials in July, 2005.

2003-2004

CIFAP co-sponsored, with The Food Industry Center, a Healthy Living conference on obesity issues in October, 2003 which drew national experts, industry, and academics to the University of Minnesota.

CIFAP sponsored and Paul Glewwe organized the first of a continuing series of 2-day Minnesota Economic Development Conferences, April 30-May 1, 2004.

CIFAP organized and supported several seminars jointly with the Health Economics and Policy Group in the School of Public Health. The first, by Tomas Philipson of the University of Chicago, was held on November 21, 2003. A second seminar, by CEO Lois Quam of Ovations, was held on February 24, 2004.

CIFAP co-sponsored a workshop in Beijing in June, 2004 to launch a joint research program with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Don Liu, Phil Pardey and Jay Coggins attended.

CIFAP co-sponsored a workshop in Blomfontein, South Africa in August, 2003 on “Key Elements of an Economic Growth and Agricultural Strategy for Africa.” Terry Roe, Phil Pardey, Glenn Pederson, Rodney Smith and Bill Easter presented.