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Low awareness and affordability are major drivers of low consumption of animal‐source foods among children in Northern Ethiopia: A mixed‐methods study
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Restoring functional integrity of the global production ecosystem through biological control
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Africa’s manufacturing puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian firms
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Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape the future for both human and planetary well-being. Drawing on recent evidence and experience, the 2024 Global Food Policy Report highlights opportunities for transforming food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for all.
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Olivier Ecker is a Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit based in Washington, DC. Olivier leads the consumer behavior and dietary change workstream of the Unit’s country modeling team. His research focuses on economic issues of food systems transformation and food security in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He specializes in models and methods to assess the effects of policies and shocks on food demand and household diets. Olivier also conducts research on armed conflict…
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In this interview with RFD-TV, Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR and IFPRI, discusses what UNGA and Climate Week meetings mean for agriculture, and why it’s important for global leaders to prioritize agricultural innovation as they make decisions about how to address climate change and other global issues. She also highlights CGIAR’s scientific research benefits farmers both in the US and abroad.
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For more than three decades, IFPRI has worked with the Government of Ethiopia to provide evidence-based advice on the development of the country’s agricultural sector.
IFPRI’s research and policy recommendations led to the establishment of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) in 2010, which continues to play a critical role in guiding the country’s agricultural development and sustainability.
Tamsin Zandstra, Gashaw T. Abate, Shahidur Rashid, and Nicholas Minot outline how IFPRI’s long-term strategic research support to the ATA has led to several tangible government policy outcomes.