Past Events
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Earth Institute Conference, "Going Beyond the Rhetoric: Metrics for Assessing Global Agriculture"
Location: Columbia University, New York, NY
Monday, July 27, 2009 through Friday, July 31, 2009
The 2009 Annual Millennium Villages Retreat
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Friday, May 8, 2009
Special Seminar: Open to the Public
Communication Factors Affecting African Policy Makers' Decisions on Biotechnology
Speakers: Belay Begashaw, Senior Agriculture Policy Advisor, MDG Centre, East and Southern Africa; former Minister of Agriculture, Ethiopia
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, Trustees Room, First Floor
Contact: Mary Pasquince, mp536@Columbia.edu
Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Earth Institute Fellows Symposium
Speakers: Earth Institute Fellows
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University Morningside Heights Alfred Lerner Hall, Satow Room
Contact: Earth Institute Events, events@ei.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/55
April 17-19, 2009
Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellows take part in Interdisciplinary Scenario Building Exercises to Address Global Food Security.
Three Tropical Agriculture Postdoctoral Fellows, Roseline Remans, Sean Smukler, and Leigh Winowiecki participated in a weekend-long retreat in upstate New York with six other Earth Institute fellows to identify factors affecting global food security and construct scenarios around what the world would look like if everyone had enough to eat in 2050. The interdisciplinary team has been researching scenario-building methodologies and food security issues since December 2008. Process-based results will be presented at the EI-Symposium May 7, 2009 on Columbia's Morningside Campus. See our Events page for specifics.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Seminars on Sustainable Development
Global Food Production and Hunger
Speakers: Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program; Director, Millennium Villages Project; Co-Chair of the Millennium Project’s Hunger Task Force; Cheryl Palm, Senior Research Scientist, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program; Science Director, Millennium Villages Project; and Generose Nziguheba, Associate Research Scientist, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program; Agriculture Sector Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Low Memorial Library Faculty Room
Contact: Earth Institute Events, events@ei.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/2404
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Millennium Villages Student Research Showcase
The Earth Institute at Columbia University's Office of Academic and Research Programs brought together 30 student interns, researchers and faculty members in the first Millennium Villages Student Research Showcase. These students and researchers shared their unique educational research experiences of working toward ending extreme poverty through sustainable development in the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), the groundbreaking collaboration between the Earth Institute, Millennium Promise, and the United Nations Development Programme, designed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Soil Knowledge for a Sustainable Planet:
Inaugurating GlobalSoilMap.net
Speakers: Alfred Hartemink, ISRIC - World Soil Information, The Netherlands; Bashir Jama, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Kenya; Ganlin Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Jonathan Hempel, NRCS, Department of Agriculture, United States; and Neil McKenzie, CSIRO, Australia
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: The Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Web Site: http://www.globalsoilmap.net/