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Antiglobalism was on the rise in 2017. What will that mean for food security and nutrition? IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy Report examines the impacts of global integration—including the movement of goods, investment, people, and knowledge—and the…

IFPRI staff members are delivering three keynote addresses during the AIARD 54th Annual Conference and 2018 Future Leaders Forum on June 3- 5th in Washington, DC under the theme, Business "Un" usual:  Aligning Critical Intersections of Agriculture,…

Presenter

• Eduardo Nakasone, IFPRI / Michigan State University

The United Nations has recognized the importance of reducing food loss and waste in the Sustainable Development Goal target 12.3 to “halve per capita global food waste at the retail and…

Speakers

• Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Shenggen Fan, Director-General, IFPRI

Moderator

• Kostas Stamoulis, Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development, Food and…

The event “Pro-WEAI: A New Tool for Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Development Projects” is a “soft launch” of the index and its associated nutrition module as a tool for measuring and assessing the impact of agricultural development…

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), partnering with CGIAR’s International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and with the collaboration of Global Affairs Canada, is hosting the Canadian launch of IFPRI’s 2018 Global Food Policy…

Introductory Remarks

• Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Coordinator, Embrapa, Labex-USA (Presentation | Video)

Speakers

• Maurício Antônio Lopes, President, Embrapa (Presentation | Video)
• Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (Presentation | Video)
• Mary Bohman,…

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of the 17 SDGs require indicators related to gender dynamics. Despite the need for reliable indicators, stylized facts on women, agriculture, and the…

Introduction

Moderator: 

• Paul van de Logt, Head, Food and Nutrition Security, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Opening

• Shenggen Fan, Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

First Reaction

• Reina Buijs, Deputy Director-General,…

Moderator

• James Zhan, Senior Director, Investments and Enterprise, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Overview

• Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs, International Food Policy Research Institute…

Irrigation is important in Ghana to deal with the erratic rainfall, especially in the context of climate change. Irrigation can minimize frequent food shortages that are attributable to dependence on rainfall, and increase yields. However, to do this…

Special Remarks

• Neven Mimica, Commissioner,  International Cooperation and Development, European Commission (Video message) (Video)
• David O'Sullivan, Ambassador and Head of European Union Delegation to the United States (Video)

Report Overview

• Luca…

On March 22, 2018, the Global Report on Food Crises was launched at FAO headquarters, Rome. The Report draws attention to rising levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly associated with conflict and the impact of extreme climate…

                    *To register, email rsvp@emergingag.com (Deadline is April 04, 2018)*

Opening Remarks

• H.E Marc-André Blanchard, Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations
• Ms. Diedre Mills, Deputy Permanent Representative of Jamaica…

Building Consensus for Fair and Sustainable Development

The G20 brings together 19 of the world’s most important industrialized and emerging economies, plus the European Union, to discuss important global trends. The scope of the G20 agenda has…

IFPRI's Dakar office is pleased to invite you to its conference series “Strategy and Development Roundtables” (SDR) in partnership with ISRA and DAPSA and to the Dakar launch of "Agriculture, Development, and the Global Trading System".

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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), jointly with the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), and the ICAR- National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (ICAR-NIAP), is organizing a Policy Dialogue…

Rapid Fire Presentations

• James W. Jones, Distinguished Professor and Director, Florida Climate Institute (currently at the National Science Foundation) (Video)
• Morven McLean, Executive Director, International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Research…

Ending hunger and malnutrition, and building human capacity is “a moral obligation that we need to fulfill as the current generation,” highlighted Dr. Gerardine Mukeshimana, the Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, as she opened the…

Building resilience is no longer a talk show, it is a matter of action,” urged Right Honourable Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima, Vice President of the Republic of Malawi, in his keynote address at the Compact2025 Forum in Lilongwe, Malawi on October 31,…