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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
The World Economic Forum, with an objective to improve the state of the world, annually organizes a gathering that brings together leaders of global society. IFPRI's Director General, Shenggen Fan will participate in several events around the meetings…
Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project: Impacts of Cash-for-Nutrition
This report evaluates impacts on child nutrition of the Cash for Nutrition component of the Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project, implemented by the Yemen Social Fund for Development. The current Cash for Nutrition program is a resumption and expan…
Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition: Data, Investment, Partnership, and Accountability
IFPRI along with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Global Nutrition Report, Scaling Up Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, and World Business Council for Sustainable Development are co-organizing a side event during the 2019 World Ec…
Agricultural Transformation and Market Integration in the ASEAN Region: Responding to Food Security and Inclusiveness Concerns
Structural transformation in Southeast Asia poses challenges to the region's food security and inclusive agricultural growth agenda. Integration of agricultural markets within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is high on the polic…
National Dialogue on Innovations for Promoting Balanced Application of Macro and Micro Nutrient Fertilizers in Indian Agriculture
Imbalanced application of different plant nutrients through fertilizers and inadequate access of indigenous sources, such as manures etc. to crops is a widespread problem in India. Lack of adequate knowledge among the farmers about the nutritional requ…
Aspirations, Trust, and Poverty Reduction
Understanding the psychological dimensions of poverty is critical for understanding how to alleviate it. The goal of this webinar is to highlight novel research on two psychological phenomena that are closely linked with experiencing poverty and econom…
IFPRI Egypt Seminar: Advancing the Food System for Growth, Job Creation, and Better Nutrition in Egypt
According to joint IFPRI-CAPMAS estimates, the food system in Egypt makes up about 25 percent of the Egyptian economy and employs about 33 percent of the workforce. But the food system in Egypt is diverse and promoting different value chains within the…
The Malabo Montpellier Forum
The Malabo Montpellier (MaMo) Forum provides a platform for informed dialogue and exchange among African policy makers at the highest-level on agriculture, nutrition, and food security.
The MaMo Forum is co-chaired by The Right Honourable Dr. Saulos K…
2018 Partners' Forum
Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI, will participate in the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) forum, which will bring together 1,200 partners dedicated to the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) movement and to the achiev…
International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions
IFPRI is participating in the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions.
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) affects at least a quarter of all countries worldwide, with low and middle inc…
What Lies Beneath: Women’s and Girls’ Wellbeing as a Critical Underpinning of India’s Nutritional Challenge
In collaboration with BMGF, EPoD India at IFMR, Naandi Foundation and UNICEF, POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India) will deliberate on the aspects of women’s and girls’ wellbeing that are cri…
Malabo Montpellier Webinar Series
Between 2000 and 2016, Senegal made remarkable progress in reducing undernutrition. The prevalence of stunting decreased from 30 to 19 percent.
- What did Senegal do differently?
- What did it take to mobilize government at the cross ministerial level?
- How…
Do Medium and Large-Scale Farms Generate Income Spillovers for Rural Households?
Land acquisitions by foreign and local investor farmers has generated much speculation about the impacts on smallholder households and rural communities. The study that will be presented in this webinar addresses these issues by exploiting inter-distri…
Measuring Policy Distortions Along Agricultural Value Chains: Lessons From Africa and Asia
The global agricultural sector is undergoing a transformation, with a rapid expansion of trade in processed agricultural commodities. With this transformation comes expanded interest in how agricultural value chains can aid rural development. This requ…
Agricultural Mechanization in Africa: Lessons Learned From South-South Knowledge Exchange
Increased use of mechanical power for farming operations has been one of the key aspects of the agricultural and rural transformation and will remain so under the efforts toward achieving the SDGs. Agricultural mechanization in Africa gained significan…
Helping Smallholder Farmers Manage Risks: Innovations to Improve Agricultural Insurance
For most smallholder farmers in the developing world, livelihoods are intertwined with agricultural production, and thus highly dependent on weather. As climate change is making the weather increasingly unpredictable, farmers experience greater product…
Community Forest Concessions in Petén, Guatemala: Effective Governance for Tropical Forest Conservation and Socio-Economic Development
The devolution* of forest rights to local communities is seen as a critical element of strategies aimed at conserving tropical forests and strengthening livelihoods based on them. In the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) in Petén, Guatemala, forest concessi…
Emerging Food System in South Asia: Policy Challenges and Opportunities
Session 1: Inaugural Session and presentations on opportunities to make food systems more nutritious and healthy
- Chair: Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog
- Co-chair: Margaret Catley-Carlson, IFPRI Board
Welcome
- Shenggen Fan, IFPRI Director General
Remarks
Third Annual Takaful & Karama Conference
IFPRI research was highlighted at the recent Takaful & Karama conference in Cairo, Egypt attended by several high-level policy makers including the Prime Minister, Minister of Social Solidarity, Minister of International Cooperation, Minister of Educat…
Agricultural Policy in Disarray: Reforming the Farm Bill
The 2018 Farm Bill, if passed, will set US farm policy for the next 5 years and cost some US $87 billion annually. Some of this spending will go toward the US farm safety net, which includes price and income support programs, conservation programs, and…
