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and Malnutrition?">“Like a Wave on Top of a Tsunami”: Have the Food Price and Financial Crises Increased World Hunger and Malnutrition?</a></h3> <p><small>Wednesday, July 29th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=8" title="View all posts in Income/Poverty" rel="category">Income/Poverty</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=70#comments" title="Comment on “Like a Wave on Top of a Tsunami”: Have the Food Price and Financial Crises Increased World Hunger and Malnutrition?">5 Comments »</a></p> by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar In 1995, the international community proclaimed the goal of reducing hunger by 50 percent by 2015. However, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=70" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to “Like a Wave on Top of a Tsunami”: Have the Food Price and Financial Crises Increased World Hunger and Malnutrition?">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-66"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=66" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist in Ethiopia?">Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist in Ethiopia?</a></h3> <p><small>Monday, June 29th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=3" title="View all posts in Education" rel="category">Education</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=4" title="View all posts in Environment" rel="category">Environment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=8" title="View all posts in Income/Poverty" rel="category">Income/Poverty</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=66#comments" title="Comment on Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist in Ethiopia?">6 Comments »</a></p> by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar Teaching an entire semester’s graduate course in three weeks at the end of the academic year seemed a dubious task under normal conditions. But teaching it ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=66" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist in Ethiopia?">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-57"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=57" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?">Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?</a></h3> <p><small>Thursday, April 23rd, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=57#respond" title="Comment on Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?">No Comments »</a></p> by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar (Read Bill Butz's previous post on Gold Standard Evaluation here) The international conference, “Perspectives on Impact Evaluation: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness” was held in Cairo ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=57" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Is the Gold Standard for Impact Evaluation Fool’s Gold?">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-53"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=53" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Traditional Agro-Forestry Strategies to Address High Population Pressure and the Livelihoods of Youth in Southern Ethiopia">Traditional Agro-Forestry Strategies to Address High Population Pressure and the Livelihoods of Youth in Southern Ethiopia</a></h3> <p><small>Friday, April 17th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=4" title="View all posts in Environment" rel="category">Environment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=53#comments" title="Comment on Traditional Agro-Forestry Strategies to Address High Population Pressure and the Livelihoods of Youth in Southern Ethiopia">3 Comments »</a></p> by Charlie Teller, Bixby visiting scholar “Wall-to-wall houses along the dirt road, clinging to the steep mountainsides,” is what I, a demography professor at Addis Ababa University, heard from fellow participants ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=53" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Traditional Agro-Forestry Strategies to Address High Population Pressure and the Livelihoods of Youth in Southern Ethiopia">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=30" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Where Are the Missing Three Million Ethiopians from the New Census: In Washington DC, in the Middle East or Hiding?">Where Are the Missing Three Million Ethiopians from the New Census: In Washington DC, in the Middle East or Hiding?</a></h3> <p><small>Tuesday, December 16th, 2008</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=30#comments" title="Comment on Where Are the Missing Three Million Ethiopians from the New Census: In Washington DC, in the Middle East or Hiding?">1 Comment »</a></p> Editor’s note: A previous version of this post did not include the concluding paragraph. We apologize for the accidental omission. by Charles Teller, PRB visiting scholar and Senait Tibebu, demographer, Addis ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=30" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Where Are the Missing Three Million Ethiopians from the New Census: In Washington DC, in the Middle East or Hiding?">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-18"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=18" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Is Africa Being Eaten by the Malthusian Dragon?">Is Africa Being Eaten by the Malthusian Dragon?</a></h3> <p><small>Thursday, October 16th, 2008</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=18#respond" title="Comment on Is Africa Being Eaten by the Malthusian Dragon?">No Comments »</a></p> by Charles Teller, Bixby Visiting Scholar Malthus predicted over 200 years ago that population growth would outrun food production and cause much misery in the world, and we've been struggling with ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://prbblog.org/?p=18" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Is Africa Being Eaten by the Malthusian Dragon?">Read more..</a> <br/><br/> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div></div> </td></tr></table></center>  <br/><br/> <div align="center"> <div align="center" id="ftr"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004im_/http://www.prb.org/images/footer2.gif" width="3" height="23" align="right"/><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004im_/http://www.prb.org/images/footer1.gif" width="3" height="23" align="left"/><span class="footertext">Services: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/Home/EmailSignup.aspx">Get E-Mail News</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/Join.aspx">Join/Renew Membership</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/Donate.aspx">Donate</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/Bookstore.aspx">Bookstore</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/Home/Contact.aspx">Contact</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/SpanishContent.aspx">Español</a>  ·  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/FrenchContent.aspx">Français</a></span></div> <span class="footer2text"><b>Copyright 2007, Population Reference Bureau.</b> All rights reserved. • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/http://www.prb.org/Home/Privacy.aspx">Privacy Policy</a></span><br/> <span class="footer2text">1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW • Suite 520 • Washington, DC 20009-5728 • USA <br/> <b>Phone:</b> 800-877-9881 • <b>Fax:</b> 202-328-3937 • <b>E-mail:</b> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091208064004/mailto:popref@prb.org">popref@prb.org</a></span><br/> </div>  </div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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