On Wednesdays during the Fall and Spring semesters, from 12:20pm to 1:10pm in 135 Emerson Hall (unless otherwise noted), visitors and speakers from the Cornell community present international development-related seminars for the IP-CALS Perspectives in International Development Series. The seminars are free and open to the public. Students can also receive one credit for attending the seminar series, which is cross-listed as IARD 6960, NTRES 6960, PLSCS 6960, and AEM 6960.
Spring 2018
| January 31 | What Has Been Learned of Scientific Value from SRI Research and Experience Norman Uphoff and Lucy Fisher |
| February 14 | Apply a Gender Lens to International Development Hale Tufan and Devon Jenkins |
| February 21 | Participatory Water Governance – Impact of decentralization on water management in Honduras Fawzia Tarannum, Hubert H Humphrey Fellow, is a lecturer at the TERI School of Advanced Studies in New Dehli |
| February 28 | Ending Hunger Sustainably through Evidence-Based Consensus Jaron Porciello, IP-CALS |
| March 7 | Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): On the Positive Impacts of An Imperfect Product Chris Barrett, Dyson School |
| March 14 | When Women Unite: Self Help Groups in India and development versus the gender question Ranjana Das, Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow |
| March 21 | Farmer Research Network projects of the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP): Two deep dive examples from Kenya Beth Medvecky, IP-CALS |
| March 28 | Linking migratory bird conservation with agroforestry and coffee cultivation in Latin America Ruth Bennett, Department of Natural Resources |
| April 11 | Agriculture & economic transformation in low & middle income countries John Mellor, Dyson School |
| April 18 | Biochar in smallholder agriculture in the tropics: taking stock Johannes Lehmann |
| April 25 | Toward inclusive development: learning from integrated landscape management to guide the future Louise Buck |
| May 2 | What Women Know That Men Do Not About Chestnuts Trees in Turkey: A Method of Hearing Muted Knowledge Jeff Wall |
| May 9 | Lori Leonard, title TBA |