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Africa’s Agriculture Trade in a Changing Environment
Trade is an important avenue through which countries transform their economies and raise standards of living. For African countries, trade in agricultural products offers great potential to boost incomes for farmers, processors and other agricultural v…
Launching the Global Foresight for Food and Agriculture Tool
Join the Food Security Portal (FSP), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in the launch of the global foresight tool Impacts of Alternative Investment Scenarios. T…
Rwanda Strategy Support Program: Enhancing Capacity for Evidence-Based Policy to Accelerate Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development
The proposed Rwanda Strategy Support Program is an initiative aligned with the Government of Rwanda’s vision for accelerating agricultural transformation and rural development throughout the country. The program will assist the implementation of the 20…
Digital Technologies for Agricultural Transformation - Case of Senegal
The Malabo Montpellier Panel's last report, Byte by Byte: Policy innovation for transforming Africa's Food system with digital technologies has presented experiences from 7 African countries.
Join us on November 22nd to learn more from the Senegal's ca…
2019 ReSAKSS - Gender Equality in Rural Africa: From Commitments to Outcomes
State and non-state will reflect on how stakeholders should apply a gender lens to various issues among rural populations. The conference is held in Lomé, Togo from Nov. 11-13.
Future Extension: Innovations and Evidence
After decades of neglect, agricultural extension and rural advisory services are at the center of global conversations about sustainable agriculture, resilient livelihoods, and inclusive growth. Whether the discussion is on reaching farmers at scale, c…
Gender Equality in Rural Africa: From Commitments to Outcomes
Gender equality has been recognized as an important goal in itself as well as important to achieving other development objectives, such as reducing hunger and poverty. This is true worldwide and especially so in rural Africa, where women play an import…
Transforming Africa’s Food System with Digital Technologies
African countries have made considerable progress in increasing agricultural productivity and reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. But continued population growth, urbanization, changing diets, and climate change are putting pressure on food sy…
2019 RESAKSS-Asia Conference: Evolving Agrifood Systems in Asia
The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Asia (ReSAKSS-Asia) facilitated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID), are organizing an international c…
Food System Transformations: National Actions in a Globalized World
Food systems in developing countries are undergoing a rapid transformation shaped by global and regional events. But country actions will be critical in shaping future food system outcomes.
Some countries are taking a systemic approach to assessing a…
The Launching Ceremony of "The Making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh: Enablers, Impacts, and the Path Ahead for Aquaculture"
Welcome Address
- Dr. Akhter Ahmed, Country Representative, IFPRI
Remarks on the Book
- Dr. Shahidur Rashid, Co-editor of the book, and Director for South Asia, IFPRI
- Dr. Xiaobo Zhang, Co-editor of the book, Senior Fellow, IFPRI, and a Distinguished Profes…
Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research
How can agriculture and natural resource management advance gender equality? Asking this question rather than only its inverse — what does gender analysis bring to agriculture and natural resource management? — elevates the objective of gender equality…
Modelling for Sustainable Development: New Decisions for a New Age
IFPRI is participating in the webinar, "Modelling for Sustainable Development: New decisions for a new age," which will feature a presentation and discussion on October 21, 2019.
"Modelling for Sustainable Development: New decisions for a new age" is a…
Eurasian Food Security Center Conference 2019
IFPRI is participating in The Annual Eurasian Food Security Conference on October 29-31, 2019.
The Conference is a major event promoting food and nutrition security in the Eurasia region. It brings together more than 150 participants each year. The pur…
Using Malawi’s Community-Based Childcare Centers to Implement an Agriculture and Nutrition Intervention
This policy seminar focuses on research undertaken in Malawi by IFPRI, the University of Malawi, Save the Children, and University of Washington in support to the Government’s early childhood development program.
Community-based early childhood devel…
19th Global Development Conference
IFPRI is participating in the 19th Global Development Conference on October 23-25, 2019.
The conference will facilitate the research-policy interface in pursuit of the SDGs. The conference will also mark GDN's 20th anniversary since its launch at the …
Circular Agriculture: A Vision for Sustainability
Our agricultural system faces serious social and ecological challenges, and climate change and resource scarcity require us to reassess current production methods.
Carola Schouten, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Qua…
Changing Farm Structure and Rural Transformation in Africa
The study discussed during this webinar presents evidence of profound farm-level transformation in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, identifies the key sources of dynamism in the sector, and proposes an updated typology of farms that reflects the evolving n…
Challenges and Opportunities for Latin American Agriculture
IFPRI is participating in an international seminar on Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture in Latin America, which will be held on October 10th and 11th, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This international seminar will discuss the difficulties …
Sixteenth Session of the AMIS Global Food Market Information Group
IFPRI is participating in the 16th session of the Global Food Market Information Group in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October 7 - 9, 2019, where policy makers, economists, agribusiness and food industry leaders, academics, financiers, and insurers from…
