IFPRI events

Empowerment in Crisis: Gender-Responsive Solutions for Fragile Food Systems

Please type your questions into the chat box with name, affiliation, and country. The event video, presenter slides, and podcast will be available in the days following the event. Crises—whether driven by conflict, climate shocks, or economic instability—rarely affect everyone equally. Women and girls often bear the heaviest burdens, facing heightened food insecurity, disrupted livelihoods, […]

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World Food Prize 2025 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue

IFPRI is participating in the 2025 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue. This year’s theme, “SOILutions for Security,” underscores the foundational role that agriculture plays in sustaining global stability. The Dialogue will explore how diverse industries and sectors can unite to address the challenges of economic disruption, conflict, and environmental stress from the ground up. The […]

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Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF):  Evaluating the Impacts of HGSF Procurement and Delivery Models

Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) has the potential to transform food systems, strengthen rural economies, and improve child nutrition. This webinar examines emerging evidence on the impacts of HGSF approaches, from local sourcing strategies to multisectoral coordination, with a focus on research from Gambia’s HGSF program and government insights and perspectives from Cambodia’s HGSF model. Speakers […]

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Navigating the Food Security Nexus: Commodity Prices, Inflation, and Exchange Rates

Join us for a seminar exploring the complex interplay between global food commodity prices and domestic food price inflation, and the implications for food security. Drawing on recent analytical work and market monitoring, the session will examine how international price movements transmit through domestic markets, often exacerbated by exchange rate fluctuations and macroeconomic volatility.  Fluctuations […]

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Tackling extreme poverty and financing for food systems in Africa

Join speakers from IFPRI, IFAD, UNU-WIDER and the World Bank for a high-level seminar exploring two major African priorities – poverty reduction and food systems transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. Speakers will highlight the need to make progress on reducing poverty in fragile and conflict-affected areas across the continent, and the need to examine how most […]

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2025 Gender Conference: Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems

Join the CGIAR Accelerator Gender Equality & Inclusion, in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Western Cape Government, in Cape Town for the 2025 Gender Conference, a pivotal gathering at the intersection of gender equality and sustainable development. This year’s theme, “Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems,” highlights the urgent need […]

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What’s on the Menu? Collecting high-quality data to inform school menu decision-making

The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) – the coexistence of undernutrition and overweight/obesity – poses a critical global health challenge, particularly for children and adolescents. School meal programs offer an opportunity to address the DBM by providing nutritious meals that support growth, development, and lifelong health. However, limited school meal quality data hinders effective, nutritionally-tailored […]

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Tools for Action: Measuring food environments and diets to drive policy in LMICs

How can better measurement drive better food and nutrition policies? In this interactive webinar, participants will gain an overview of the Food Environment Toolbox and Urban Food Environments and Diets (UFED) tool, learning how these innovative resources can help fill critical data gaps, integrate food environment and dietary indicators, and support evidence-based decision-making. The session will highlight: Join […]

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Informing Crisis Response in Sudan

The recent resurgence of armed conflicts in Africa is increasing the need and urgency for investments in shock-responsive humanitarian and social assistance programs. Armed conflicts both increase the need for aid and greatly complicate delivery of humanitarian services to vulnerable populations. In addition, humanitarian organizations are facing an increasing funding gap because of dwindling donor […]

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Transformative and scalable experiences for a new generation of public policies for agrifood systems

Promote a space for reflection and regional exchange aimed at identifying transformative and scalable experiences of agri-food public policies, with emphasis on those that generate public goods, articulate multiple actors and levels of government, incorporate innovative mechanisms and recognize the necessary enabling conditions for their implementation and sustainability. This dialogue prioritizes: October 8, 2025 Special […]

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School meal programs and regenerative agriculture: Generating evidence on sustainability tradeoffs

Can school meals serve both children and the planet? This webinar will explore how school meal programs intersect with regenerative agriculture, unpacking the environmental, economic, and social tradeoffs of scaling sustainable feeding models. Drawing on global initiatives, including Brazil’s national school feeding program, this session will highlight existing evidence and persistent gaps on the sustainability […]

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80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and Climate Week 2025

The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly – under the theme Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights – comes at a pivotal moment to renew global commitment to multilateralism, solidarity and shared action for people and planet. This year’s high-level week highlights the urgency of delivering on […]

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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture for Healthy Diets in Latin America and Caribbean

Join us in this seminar organized by the Inter-American Development Bank that will address the relevance of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in transforming agrifood systems and contributing to the reduction of nutritional deficiencies in the population of Latin America and the Caribbean. The event will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish. Keynote Speaker:

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The EU Deforestation Regulation: Policy Implications and Research Frontiers

In June 2023, the European Union (EU) adopted its Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR)—a landmark policy designed to reduce global deforestation and forest degradation driven by EU consumption. Under the regulation, key commodities with the biggest impacts on deforestation—soy, cattle, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, wood, and natural rubber—cannot be placed on the EU market or […]

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Optimizing school food environments: Integrating new food and nutrient standards with aspects of affordability, cultural acceptability and environmental sustainability

School food environments encompass every way children encounter food in or around school- from the meals on their plates and the messages on classroom walls to the snacks sold at kiosks and ads for sugary drinks just outside school gates. A truly healthy environment maximizes exposure to nutritious options and positive eating cues. Balancing nutritional […]

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AI and Remote Sensing for Agricultural Insights: From Satellite Imagery to Decision Support 

How can advances in AI and remote sensing improve agricultural decision-making, particularly in contexts where timely, accurate data is difficult to obtain? This webinar explores the intersection of machine learning and satellite imagery, focusing on innovations that enhance monitoring, planning, and climate resilience in food systems.  Sibiry Traore will present lessons from his work on […]

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EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2025

The Stockholm Food Forum, convened by EAT, is an invitation only event open to individuals and actors from across food systems, including representatives of Science, Policy, Business and Civil Society. The Theme of this year’s forum is “Engage, Act, Transform” asking the food system community to engage with the knowledge carried by the Commission and […]

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Benchmarking LLMs for Agricultural Advisory: Insights from a Global Community of Practice 

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in agricultural advisory services, there is growing recognition of the need for shared benchmarks to evaluate their performance, equity, and contextual relevance. In response, a global community of practice, supported by the Gates Foundation, has begun developing standards and tools to assess how well LLMs perform across […]

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The Economy-wide Impacts of School Meal Programs: Generating evidence on return on investment

This webinar will explore the latest global evidence on how school feeding programs drive broad-based returns: boosting education, enhancing health outcomes, supporting local agriculture, and strengthening national development. The session will explore new findings from a randomized control trial (RCT), evaluating the longer-term economic impacts of Ghana’s national school feeding program, and ways this methodology […]

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Launching the Ethical AI Methods Toolkit: Reflections from Research and Practice

What does it mean to design ethical AI for agricultural research and development—and how can researchers and practitioners begin to put principles into practice? Following our previous webinar on A Problem-Oriented Approach to AI Ethics in Food Systems, this event marks the launch of the Ethical AI Methods Toolkit: a practical resource developed to support […]

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