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View this email in your browser January 01 – February 14, 2020 A recap of the latest IFPRI events with links to blogs, podcasts, and more. Food Policies and their Implications on Overweight and Obesity Trends in Selected Countries in MENA Region January 14, 2020 Co-Organized by IFPRI-Egypt Office and FAO Regional Office Giza, Egypt Explore more about the event (link) “Coordination and mainstreaming of nutrition considerations into the policies and actions across many sectors is necessary. A mapping exercise to better understand the food system nationally, is essential to identify opportunities for action plans to combat obesity.” Tamara Nanitashvili, Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer, FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (RNE)      VIEW the photos (link)      WATCH the video (link)       READ the blog (link) Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa: Beyond Stylized Facts January 21, 2020 Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Washington, DC, US Explore more about the event (link) “Agriculture and the real non-farm economy are going to have to play a far more important role in solving Africa’s youth employment challenge than perhaps it did in other developing regions.” James Thurlow, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI       LISTEN to the podcast (link)       READ the blog (link)      VIEW the photos (link)      WATCH the video (link) Food Systems Dashboard: How it will work January 27, 2020 Co-Organized by IFPRI, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Washington, DC, US Explore more about the event (link) Dealing with nutrition is hard enough– dealing with food systems is 10 fold as big an issue. In talking to senior officials, ministers, and private sector, they don’t really know where to start and what to prioritize in terms of actions to undertake if their food system is to be promoting nutrition, health, environment, livelihoods, poverty reduction and hunger reduction and so the idea formed for the food systems dashboard. Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)      VIEW the photos (link)      WATCH the video (link)      LISTEN to the podcast (link) Trade for Secure, Diverse and Sustainable Nutrition: Key Messages from the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2020 Event January 30, 2020 Washington, DC, US Explore more about the event (link)  Trade plays a central role in the development of prosperity and in reducing poverty by generating employment and in mitigating and reducing price volatility. Markus Brill, Agricultural Attaché, Federal Republic of Germany to the United States       LISTEN to the podcast (link)       READ the blog (link)      VIEW the photos (link)      WATCH the video (link) The changing challenges of hidden hunger: Micronutrients within the nutrition and development landscapes  February 03, 2020 Co-Organized by the Micronutrient Forum and IFPRI  Washington, DC, US Explore more about the event (link) “We lack key evidence on micronutrient status. The data gap on micronutrient deficiency is due to the fact that countries do not routinely collect information on micronutrient status in their large scale surveys…it’s a burden on countries to collect these data and this has implications for effective policy setting and effective targeting of interventions, however it should not be a reason to not act.” Saskia Osendarp, Executive Director, Micronutrient Forum      VIEW the photos (link)      WATCH the video (link)      LISTEN to the podcast (link) The Making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh: Enablers, Impacts, and the Path Ahead for Aquaculture  February 11, 2020 Washington, DC, US Explore more about the event (link) “This book is important for other countries looking for lessons on how to transform their aquaculture, but from a policy perspective it’s also important to Bangladesh itself that it learns from its own success here to do the same with the sector and food diversification that it’s striving towards.” Loraine Ronchi, Practice Manager for South Asia, Food and Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank Group      LISTEN to the podcast (link)       READ the blog (link)      VIEW the photos (link)      WATCH the video (link) Recent CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Webinars January 29, 2020: Climate change and agriculture in Central America and the Andean region  February 06, 2020: Integrating Gender in Policy Research and Outreach Upcoming IFPRI Events February 24, 2020: Reflections with Ousmane Badiane  March 04-05, 2020: Envisioning the Future of Extension (Co-organized by the Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity Project, AgReach University of Illinois, the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets, IFPRI) March 12, 2020: Food Loss and Waste — Can we end it by 2030? (Co-Organized by  IFPRI, World Resources Institute (WRI), Champions 12.3, and the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, DC) April 07, 2020: Launch Event – 2020 Global Food Policy Report: Building Inclusive Food Systems Copyright © 2020 International Food Policy Research Institute. 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