Joachim von Braun, Director General, IFPRI
"The idea of poverty has changed fundamentally in recent human history. Poverty has gone from being perceived as a natural phenomenon that is always with us to being an unacceptable social phenomenon. Addressing poverty has changed from a focus on solutions—that is, projects and agencies—to thinking about poverty from the side of problems—that is, economics, politics, exclusion, demographics—and newly connecting the problem perspective with the solution perspective. It has changed from a focus on charity to the recognition of rights, with a new ethical and moral underpinning, and from national initiatives to local and global initiatives, with the Millennium Development Goals acting as a force of globalism in poverty reduction. This evolution of the idea of poverty is a remarkable progress that must be pushed further. Through this conference, and the research and consultations around it, we seek to further shape the idea of poverty and hunger reduction in realistic ways."
Opening Address by Joachim von Braun, Director General, IFPRI

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