1. Washington, 6/03. World Bank staff seminar, with Chris Reij: Success stories in Africa's Drylands: Supporting Advocates and Answering Skeptics.

2. Rome, 6/03. Global Mechanism for the Convention to Combat Desertification: Recent Thinking on Incentives for Natural Resources Management.

3. Rome and Yaounde, Cameroon, 2/99. International Fund for Agricultural Development: Incentives for Natural Resources Management.

4. Washington, 3/96 - 8/98. Four sessions of the Core Training Program for staff working on rural development, also available on video tape to Resident Missions and collaborating institutions:

• Rural Strategy Making: Principles
• Rural Strategy Making: Brazil case study
• Public Expenditure Reviews and Sector Investment Lending
• Contentious Subsectors: Water and Forests

5. Washington, 5/94 - 8/98. For visiting state delegations of rural/agricultural leaders: What does the World Bank do to promote Rural Development Worldwide and how can this be of any concern to US rural/farming interest groups?

6. Rome, 4/97. Committee on Food Security, Food and Agriculture Organization: Recent World Bank Thinking on how to move from Vision to Action on Rural Development.

7. Washington, 3/96. American Society of Agricultural Consultants: Rural Well-being: From Vision to Action, and what it may mean for consultants.

8. Washington, 1/96. Agricultural Symposium: Targeted Rural Poverty Reduction: What to Target, How to Target, and How to Deliver?

9. Brussels and Rome, 9/95. European Union secretariat, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Food Program: How to move beyond Good Economic Management and Effective Poverty Reduction towards Sustainable Rural Development?

10. Washington, 5/95. International Federation of Agricultural Producers: Sustainable Rural Development: How can we get there, using Incentives, Institutions, and Investments?

11. Washington, 3/95. Staff seminars: Lessons emerging from the Review of Quality at Entry of Projects approved in Fiscal Years 1993 and 1994.

12. Wageningen, Holland, 2/95. International Workshop on Agenda 21, Chapter 10, Integrated Planning and Management of Land Resources: Keynote Address on Possibilities for Sustainable Economic Development in Rural Areas, with Emphasis on Non-traditional Qualities of Land.

13. Washington, 1/95. Council of Advisers to the Environmentally Sustainable Development Vice Presidency: Lessons from Successive Rural Development Funds in Burkina Faso, starting in 1973, leading to the 1991 Environmental Management Project.

14. Washington, 8/94. The Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program, Conference on Indicators of Sustainability: Towards Economic Indicators of Sustainability.

15. Washington, 5/94. Agricultural Cooperative Development International, Natural Resource Management Workshop: Sustainable Development and Thriving Agriculture: Are these Objectives Mutually Incompatible?

16. Abidjan, 4/94. West African Tropical Forestry Management Seminar: Approches vers une meilleure utilisation de ressources naturelles.

17. Washington, 3/94. A Rebuttal to the "Fifty Years is Enough" Campaign: Agriculture after 50 Years: Evolution of the Bank's Portfolio, Past Achievements, and Future Challenges.

18. Madison, Wisconsin, 9/93. Forest Products Research Conference, Sustainable Economies and Sustainable Resources: Roles for Forest Products Research: How World Bank Policies can Influence Sustainable Economies and Ecosystems in Client Countries.

19. Rome, 6/93. Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and World Food Program: Main Findings of the World Bank's Agricultural Sector Review and what this could mean for closer collaboration between these institutions.

20. Bonn, Brussels, and The Hague, 5/93. Ministries of Foreign Affairs, their executing agencies, European Union secretariat, and International Service for National Agricultural Research: Main Findings of the World Bank's Agricultural Sector Review and possible avenues for closer collaboration. A similar presentation was made in Washington, 4/93, to staff of the United States Agency for International Development, and the International Food Policy Research Institute.