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Tuesday 8
January
12.30,
Kapoenstraat 2,
room: 0.009
Regina Birner
International
Food Policy
Research
Institute
Empirical
results on the
gender effects
of reservation
policies on
rural service
provision in
Karnataka
(India) |
Regina Birner joined the
Development Strategy and
Governance Division in
September 2004 to lead
International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI)
research program on
governance. She is also
co-chair of IFPRI's
Governance Task Force. Prior
to joining IFPRI, she was an
Assistant Professor at the
Institute of Rural
Development at the
University of Göttingen,
Germany, where her research
focused on the analysis of
political processes and on
decentralization and
collaborative governance in
natural resource management.
Dr. Birner served as
Co-chair of the
Interdisciplinary Center for
Sustainable Development at
Göttingen University and as
Vice-chair of the German
Council for Tropical and
Sub-tropical Agricultural
Research (ATSAF). She is a
German citizen and holds a
PhD in Socioeconomics of
Rural Development from the
University of Göttingen, and
a M.Sc. in Agricultural
Sciences from the University
of Munich-Weihenstephan,
Germany.
Countries/Regions of
Expertise:
Selected Publications
Between Conservationism,
Eco-Populism and
Developmentalism --
Discourses in Biodiversity
Policy in Thailand and
Indonesia.
On the Efficient Boundaries
of the State - The
Contribution of Transaction
Costs Economics to the
Analysis of Decentralisation
and Devolution in Natural
Resource Management.
Analyzing Negotiation
Approaches in Natural
Resource Management - A Case
Study of Crop-Livestock
Conflicts in Sri Lanka.
Relative Importance and
Determinants of Landowners'
Transaction Costs in
Collaborative Wildlife
Management in Kenya: An
Empirical Analysis.
Using Social Capital to
Create Political Capital -
How Do Local Communities
Gain Political Influence? A
Theoretical Approach and
Empirical Evidence from
Thailand.
Between Market Failure,
Policy Failure and "Community
Failure": Crop-Livestock
Conflicts and Technology
Adoption in Sri Lanka.
The International Food
Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
was founded in 1975 to
develop policy solutions for
meeting the food needs of
the developing world in a
sustainable way. IFPRI
receives its principal
funding from governments,
private foundations, and
international and regional
organizations known as the
Consultative Group on
International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR). It is one
of 15 CGIAR research
centers.
IFPRI researchers work
closely with national
counterparts and collaborate
to strengthen research
capacity in developing
countries. IFPRI also
strengthens the links
between research and
policymaking through its
regional networks. It
communicates the results of
its research to influence
policymaking and raise
public awareness about food
security, poverty, and
natural resource issues.
