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Food Security
News
UCSB historian revisits Egypt's 1977 bread uprising [VIDEO]
April 2015
As part of the Arab Reform and Democracy Program's speaker series, UC Santa Barbara Historian Sherene Seikaly discusses her research on Egypt's 1977 bread intifada. A return to the historical...
Carolyn Miles, CEO and president of Save the Children, speaks at Stanford
March 2015
Carolyn Miles, CEO and president of Save the Children, spoke on her organization’s efforts to protect children’s rights in many countries of the world at the Stanford Program on Human Rights’...
Five foreign policy questions for Obama and Romney
October 2012
With the third and final debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney set to focus on foreign policy, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute ask the questions they want answered and...
Events
The United States and Global Food Security: A View From Rome
April 29, 2015
Ambassador David Lane was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and confirmed by the U.S.
Egypt’s Bread Intifada: On the Subject of the People
February 17, 2015
Abstract:Over the last four years of upheaval in the Arab world, the notion of “the people,” Egyptian and otherwise, has proven profoundly resilient. It is these “people”—as individuals and a...
Delivering Justice to the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia
February 28, 2013
CDDRL post-doctoral fellow Bilal Siddiqi will address the question of whether progressive, statutory legal reform can meaningfullyaffect the lives of the poor, using observational and experimental...