March
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Pardey participates in “Perspectives for Agriculture: Progress through Sustainability Assessment”, a conference/workshop in Berlin, Germany. Pardey joins global participants from academia, industry and politics to exchange views on sustainability measurement in agriculture and identify areas of progress and consensus. |
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Philip Pardey and Mark Seely (UMN Professor and Extension Climatologist in the Department of Soil, Water and Climate) give a joint presentation titled “Climate Change and Global Food Security” at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, Augsburg College, Minneapolis. |
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Pardey participates in a Roundtable Discussion convened by USAID on Strengthening National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in developing countries held in Washington DC. |
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Pardey visits IFPRI to a) reconfigure HarvestChoice management details with Mark Rosegrant, b) work with HC-IFPRI colleagues on several joint HarvestChoice deliverables, most notably an Africa crop constraint analysis. Jason Beddow and Michelle Hallaway join in a conference call to discuss HC project logistics and web details. |
February
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Philip Pardey attends first meeting of the National Research Council’s Committee in Washington DC to review USDA’s Agricultural and Food Research (AFRI) Initiative. |
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Darren Kriticos and Frikkie Liebenberg joint with Jagger Harvey meet with KARI and ARI colleagues at BecA headquarters ILRI, Nairobi, to review and finalize survey protocols for the CSIRO-HC aflatoxin project. |
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Jason Beddow and Philip Pardey work with Darren Kriticos and other HarvestChoice collaborators at CSIRO in Canberra on crop pest modeling assessments and aflatoxin project. |
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Jason Beddow and Philip Pardey attend the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) conference in Sydney. Pardey participates in AARES Council meetings. Pardey and Beddow also participate in a pre-meeting workshop convened by ICRISAT on R&D evaluation methods. Beddow presents a contributed paper at the AARES meeting titled “Moving Matters: The Effect of Location on Crop Production.” |
January
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Philip Pardey, in capacity of co-supervisor, participates in Frikkie Liebenberg's PhD defense at the University of Pretoria (UP). Pardey meets with Liebenberg to review his work progress on HarvestChoice aflatoxin survey and African data rescue project and with Liebenberg and Johann Kirsten to discuss details of a joint UMN and UP MSc course to be taught Fall 2013. Pardey also meets with UP PhD students to discuss details of their thesis. |
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Julian Alston visits UMN to work with Terry Hurley, Philip Pardey and Jason Beddow on a HarvestChoice global analysis of yield gaps. |
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Connie Chan-Kang visits UMN to work on data analysis & writing for several HarvestChoice (HC) reports & conferring with UMN colleagues on HC/InSTePP data storage & management protocols that she will be helping to execute in 2013. |
