Publications
Training Material
Nigeria school feeding program: Baseline farmers’ survey instrument
Training Material
Nigeria school feeding program: Baseline cooks’ survey instrument
Training Material
Nigeria school feeding program: Train the trainers training manual
Blogs
Unlocking opportunities for planet-friendly school meals
Balancing nutrition and climate.
Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – and could offer lessons for scaling up
Providing subsidized lunches for 250,000 Nairobi students.
Making a Difference: Childcare centers as a platform for improving child nutrition in Malawi
Education programs for parents yield continuing benefits.
Events
Nudging for Good: AI driven diagnostics and behavior change to improve diets and nutrition
Virtual Event: July 28, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM EDT. This seminar will launch the FRANI app and discuss the results of new dietary assessment technologies and perspectives on the way forward for technology-assisted diet assessment.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Reflections from a Career in Research for Development
Virtual Event: Nov 22, 2021 – 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST. This special event will present experiences and insights gained over four decades of research, including reflections on academia and development in Africa.
Cultivate Africa Dialog: Women in Agriculture
IFPRI is participating in the Cultivate Africa Dialog event on November 17-18, 2020. The Africa Union Commission (AUC) and Hallpax are organizing a structured dialog with a view of providing effective solutions to the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agriculture industry in Africa. A cross-sectoral dialog will strengthen understanding and reinforce efforts for […]
News
Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – it could offer lessons for scaling up (The Conversation)
More than 250,000 children in public primary schools in Nairobi will receive regular subsidized school meals provided by the county government. The Dishi Na County program is Kenya’s first in an urban setting. The national school meal program set up in 2009 serves more than 1.5 million children in rural drought-affected counties. The Conversation asked Elisheba Kiru (African Population and […]
Women key to crop success in low-income countries
This post is a slightly modified version of the original press release issued by the University of Edinburgh. Empowering women farmers in low and middle-income countries can lead to greater crop diversity helping to improve year-round supply of healthy foods, suggests a new article published in The Lancet Planetary Health by a group of authors including […]
Editorial: Empower women to grow (The Lancet Planetary Health)
“Almost half of the world’s agricultural workers are women and women farmers produce up to 80% of the food grown in LMICs. Despite their large contribution to agricultural labor, fewer than 20% of landowners globally are women,” writes The Lancet Planetary Health in an editorial featuring a new article co-authored by IFPRI’s Lilia Bliznashka, Aulo Gelli, and […]