Karen Brooks

KAREN BROOKS

Blog
New CGIAR video features our previous Director Dr. Karen Brooks (retired in 2018) talking about the importance of agriculture for youth employment in developing countries. "We are talking about five hundred million young people in Africa south of the Sahara, in South Asia, in Central Asia who are moving into the labor force"
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Many people in Sub-Saharan Africa still work in agriculture; on average, over half of the labor force, and even more in poorer countries and localities. Yet the share of the labor force in agriculture is declining (as is normal in development), leading African leaders and economists to focus on job creation outside agriculture.
Events
The most enduring solutions for feeding people and reducing extreme poverty in low-income countries entail efforts that empower rural farmers to increase their productive capacities. On April 23, PIM Director Karen Brooks will join a panel of experts at Brookings Institution to discuss the issues and constraints such efforts entail.
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In advance of International Women’s Day this year we spoke with our Director Karen Brooks about the gender research in CGIAR, its role in PIM, and why, in Karen's opinion, "quality, opportunism (in the good sense of the term), and voice" are important for the gender research to achieve the greatest impact.
Newsletter
Welcome to the first quarterly newsletter of PIM' second phase! View video message from PIM director Karen Brooks and more updates.
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"This is my fridge; we are all part of the problem", admitted our director, Dr Karen Brooks, showing the first
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PIM Director Dr Karen Brooks participated in Afternoons with Alex Sloan, a popular radio program on 666 ABC Canberra. She and
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PIM Director Dr Karen Brooks will be one of the two keynote speakers at The Crawford Fund’s annual conference this
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In this video recorded at this year's ISPC Science Forum 2016, Karen Brooks, director of the CGIAR Research Program on