On June 11-13, 2015, GDN’s 2015 Annual Global Development Conference took place in Casablanca, Morocco. The conference was organized around the major theme of Agriculture for Sustainable Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for a new ‘Green Revolution’ and featured some of the work supported by GDN and its Regional Network Partners, as well as research studies from all over the world.

The objective of the conference was to facilitate a better understanding on the nature and prospects of ‘green revolution’ globally, drawing on the insights from experiences around the world, to foster dialogue among young and experienced researchers, experts, practitioners and various government organizations who are working towards making their respective region more sustainable in agriculture and food security.

LACEA was represented by a group of extraordinary researchers, in two different sessions. Above you can find all the presentations:

1. Interactions between social protection programs and rural development projects: how can we all help? Session abstract, June 11th 2015.

2. Interactions between social protection programs and rural development projects: how can we all help? Presentation, June 11th 2015.

3. Interactions between social protection and rural development programs: how can we all help? by Tomás Rosada (Regional Economist), June 11th 2015.

4. Social Protection: Safety Net or Potential Economic Growth? Examples from IDRC supported projects, by Arjan de Haan and Carolina Robino (IDRC), June 11th 2015.

5. From Protection to Production: Strengthening coherence between agriculture and social protection in Sub Saharan Africa, by Benjamin Davis (Food and Agriculture Organization), June 11th 2015.

6. Interactions between social protection programs and rural development projects: notes from the field. Session abstract, June 13th 2015.

7. Synergies between Conditional Cash Transfers and Rural Development in Latin America: What Have we learned? Presentation, June 13th 2015.

8. Ex-ante Impacts of Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mali, by Ghada Elabed (Mathematica Policy Research) and Michael R. Carter (University of California), June 13th 2015.

9. From Protection to Production: The Role of Social Cash Transfers in Fostering Broad-based Economic Development, by Benjamin Davis (Food and Agriculture Organization), June 13th 2015.

10. The impact of linking conditional cash transfers to agricultural credit on productive assets accumulation of rural households in Peru, by Cesar Del Pozo Loayza (Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolome de las Casas, Cusco-Peru), June 13th 2015.

11. Interactions between CCTs and rural development: 1e and 2e generation effects in Nicaragua, by Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics & INRA), June 13th 2015.