Donald Makoka Selected for Bejing Conference on Poverty

ZEFb Junior research and PhD student Donald Makoka from Malawi has been selected to the conference "Taking Action for the World’s Poor and Hungry People" on October 17-19, 2007, in Beijing, China to present a paper on “A Malawian national conducting research on Risk, risk management and vulnerability to poverty at the household level in Malawi".

An international competition was held from June to September to identify and invite leading doctoral students working on poverty and hunger to the conference. PhD students working on issues related to poverty and hunger were encouraged to submit an application outlining their research and the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference. Ten applicants were selected as IFPRI 2020 Vision Doctoral Students and invited to this conference.

www.ifpri.org/2020ChinaConference/chconfdoctoral.asp

Donald Makoka´s PhD study is financially supported by BMZ via DAAD and GTZ.