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Food Security and Development in the Arab World

Date: Nov 7, 2012. Time:  12:15 pm EDT. Live webcast. Chair: Gwendolyn Stansbury; Speakers: Clemens Breisinger, Research Fellow, IFPRI; Caroline Freund, Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank; Nadim Khouri, Deputy Executive Secretary, UN Economic & Social Commission for Western Asia

Agricultural R&D Spending on the Rise, but Low-Income Countries Continue to Lag Behind

Washington D.C.—Global challenges, including the recent food and financial crises and climate change, highlight the need for continued and scaled-up investments in agricultural research and development (R&D). The report ASTI Global Assessment of Agricultural R&D Spending, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators initiative