Speaker: Jonathan Lehe MPA/ID '17, Director of New Programs, Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) About the talk: The majority of the world’s 450 million smallholder farmers and the 2 billion people who depend on them live in rural villages in developing countries, growing crops at close to subsistence levels to feed their families. Smallholders typically harvest […]

Speakers: Charity Moore, India Research DirectorSonya Suter, Senior Program Manager About the Speakers:Charity Moore: Charity Troyer Moore is the India Research Director for Evidence for Policy Design at the Harvard Kennedy School. She leads research-policy engagements with a variety of entities in India to ensure that research is attuned to the problems facing policymakers and […]

Speakers: Amit Patel, Assistant Professor, McCormack Graduate School for Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts BostonAmmar Malik, Director, EPoD Research About the Talk: Environmental degradation reduces the environmental capacity to meet social and ecological needs of societies, which is exacerbated by natural hazards and extreme climate events, and often intensify existing vulnerabilities. Marginalized groups in cities, […]

Speaker: Andrés Reséndez, Professor, Department of History at University of California Davis; Author, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. About the talk: The Other Slavery examines the system of bondage that targeted Native Americans, a system that was every bit as terrible, degrading, and vast as African slavery. Anywhere between 2.5 and […]