external events

Location: 

Salon Vert, Cairo Marriott, Zamalek, Cairo

Abstract

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics of Egypt (CAPMAS), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and IFPRI will launch findings from the 2011 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIECS) data detailing poverty, food security and nutrition trends in Egypt and their implications for policymakers and programming.

Contact/RSVP: 

For more information, please contact Hawa Diop at h.diop@cgiar.org.

Location: 

King Fahd Palace Hotel
Dakar, Senegal

West Africa has sustained a solid pace of growth for nearly two decades—a welcome change after years of stagnation and decline. The strategic question remains, however: How can the region build on this success to accelerate economic transformation and broaden growth, especially to provide regional food security?

Patterns of growth and structural transformation in Africa

Time:  12:15 pm to 2:00 pm EDT (Please join us for lunch beginning at 11:45 am); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time.

Presenter(s):  Melanie Bacou, IFPRI, HarvestChoice; Neil Fantom, World Bank, Development Data Group; Kathleen Flaherty, IFPRI, Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI); Perri Al-Riffai, IFPRI, ArabSpatial; Johannes Keizer, FAO, Information Systems Officer; Soonho Kim, IFPRI, Food Security Portal; Daniel Mason-D'Croz, IFPRI, International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT); Indira Yerramareddy, IFPRI, Dataverse Contact/RSVP: 

RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s.hill-lee@cgiar.org, 202-862-8107

Location: 

International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
Fourth Floor Conference Facility

Open Data is a hot topic in agricultural development. The topic has garnered so much interest that G8 leaders are holding an International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture on April 29 and 30. The following day, May 1, IFPRI shared its own wealth of Open Data at “D8”.

Time:  3:30 pm to 5:00 pm EDT (A cocktail reception will immediately follow the event at 5:00 pm); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time.

Presenter(s):  Speaker: Per Pinstrup-Andersen, H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University. Chair: Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact/RSVP: 

RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s.hill-lee@cgiar.org, 202-862-8107

Location: 

International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
Fourth Floor Conference Facility

Increasing food price volatility since 2007, which is likely to continue and possibly amplify in the future, presents a major challenge for the world’s policymakers. While much has been written about the nature and causes of food price fluctuations since 2007, little is known about the processes that led to the policy responses and the relative power, behavior, and influence of the participating stakeholder groups. Understanding how and why governments responded as they did will help enhance existing knowledge of the political economy of food price policy and assist governments in their policymaking as they confront future food price fluctuations.

Time:  12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EDT (Please join us for lunch beginning at 11:45 am); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time.

Presenter(s):  Chair: Shenggen Fan, IFPRI. Speakers: Thomas Jayne, Michigan State University; Shahidur Rashid, IFPRI; Derek Byerlee, World Bank (Ret.); Simeon Ehui, The World Bank. Contact/RSVP: 

RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s.hill-lee@cgiar.org, 202-862-8107

Location: 

International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
Fourth Floor Conference Facility

After having been largely eliminated by structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 1990s, many African countries have reintroduced large-scale input subsidy programs. The subsidy programs’ benefits, however, are highly contested, and there remains a lack of recent and high-quality research to inform policy discussion and guide research on more targeted “smart” subsidy programs implemented recently across the region.

Time:  4:00 pm to 5:30 pm EDT (A cocktail reception will immediately follow the event at 5:30 pm); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time.

Presenter(s):  Speakers: Demba Ba, Director, The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB); James C. Borel, Executive Vice President, DuPont; Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Frannie A. Léautier, Executive Secretary, The Africa Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF); Moderated by: John Heller, Senior Director, Synergos Contact/RSVP: 

RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s.hill-lee@cgiar.org, 202-862-8107

Location: 

International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
Fourth Floor Conference Facility

Inaugural event in the 2013 DuPont Agriculture Development Roundtable Series

IFPRI is pleased to host the first discussion in this series aimed at fostering action among public and private entities to address the global challenge of feeding nine billion people.

GFAR is a multi-stakeholder initiative that contributes to eradicating poverty, achieving food security, and conserving and managing natural resources. It enhances national capacities to generate, adapt and transfer knowledge.

Time:  12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EDT (Please join us for lunch beginning at 11:45 am); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time.

Presenter(s):  Speakers: Shenggen Fan, Director General of IFPRI; Mary Bohman, Administrator of the Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture; Michael Elliott, President and CEO of ONE; Andrew Steer, President and CEO of World Resources Institute Contact/RSVP: 

RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s.hill-lee@cgiar.org, 202-862-8107

Location: 

International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
Fourth Floor Conference Facility

In 2012, the world food system continued to be in a vulnerable position. As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, even the modest goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger is not on track. A number of countries made important and promising changes in food-related policies, and the global community made noteworthy commitments to strengthen aspects of food security. What remains is for these commitments to be translated into action.

Time:  8:45-13:00 (7:45-12:00 GMT)

Briefing will be webstreamed live at http://brusselsbriefings.net/

Location: 

European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Rue Belliard 99-101, room JDE 62
Brussels – Belgium

Brussels Development Briefing, organized by CTA in collaboration with the ACP Secretariat, the EC/DEVCO, Concord and IFPRI

Which are the key challenges posed to strengthen resilience in agriculture?

This Briefing will discuss the concept and approaches to resilience and highlight proven approaches and instruments around some key areas of special benefit to the small-scale farmers in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

Building climate resilience in the agriculture sector of Asia and the Pacific Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa