New events from ODI:

Legal Timber? Verification and governance in the forest sector
17 February 2009, 13:00-14:30
Poverty dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives
17 February 2009, 17:30 19:00
Social protection in Africa
18 February 2009, 12:30-14:00
See below for more details on these events, or visit ODI's online events booking system at: http://apps.odi.org.uk/events to book a place.

1. Legal Timber? Verification and governance in the forest sector
An ODI public event

17 February 2009, 13:00-14:30
Overseas Development Institute (directions)



Speakers:
David Brown - Director, Verifor project and Programme Leader, Climate Change, Environment and Forests Programme, ODI.
Guillermo Navarro - Associate Professor in Forestry Economics and Policy within the Latin American Chair on Forest Landscape Management at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE), Costa Rica.

Discussant:
Bruce Fraser - Chair, Forest Practices Board, British Columbia, Canada.

Chair:
Andrew Shepherd - Director of Programmes, Rural Policy and Governance Group.

This meeting will introduce the new ODI book Legal Timber. It investigates a topical issue in international forest policy: how to verify the legality of traded timber in ways that will satisfy both the commercial interests of producer states and the social and environmental concerns of civil society and consumers.



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2. Poverty dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives
An ODI and Chronic Poverty Research Centre public event

17 February 2009, 17:30-19:00
Overseas Development Institute (directions)



Speakers:
Tony Addison - Book author and Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute and Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester
David Hulme - Book author and Leverhulme Research Professor and Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester
Discussant:
Paul Schaffer - Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Chair:
Andrew Shepherd - Director, Chronic Poverty Research Centre and Director of Programmes, Overseas Development Institute

Poverty dynamics concepts and methods are becoming increasingly important in understanding poverty. Poverty dynamics: Interdiciplinary perspectives is a collection of essays from anthropologists, economists, sociologists and political scientists includes cutting-edge research on poverty dynamics and provides a much needed multidimensional perspective to conceptualising poverty.

Tony Addison and David Hulme will present highlights of their book at this CPRC and ODI book launch.




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3. Social protection in Africa
An ODI public event

18 February 2009, 12:30-14:00
Overseas Development Institute (directions)



Speaker:
Professor Frank Ellis - University of East Anglia

Discussant:
Anna McCord - Research Fellow, ODI

Chair:
Rachel Slater - Research Fellow, ODI

At the launch of new book, Social Protection in Africa, co-author Professor Frank Ellis will present an overview of the content of the book. He will describe a major strategic shift in ways to tackle hunger and vulnerability: from emergency responses, mainly in the form of food transfers, to predictable cash transfers to the chronically poorest social groups.



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Children in Ghanaian forrest. Courtesy of flickr/stignygaard

Other forthcoming events
The challenge of growth: Can economic growth be compatible with climate change mitigation targets?
02 February 2009 12:30 13:45




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