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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Agnes Quisumbing

Agnes Quisumbing is a Senior Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. She co-leads a research program that examines how closing the gap between men’s and women’s ownership and control of assets may lead to better development outcomes.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Baking Resilience into the Food System

March 24, 2021

  • 10:00 – 11:00 am (America/New_York)
  • 3:00 – 4:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 7:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI’s Director General Johan Swinnen is participating as a speaker in the Baking Resilience Into Food System webinar hosted by Knowable Magazine.

This webinar will highlight how food supply chains fare in different regions, what safety nets exist for those at risk of food insecurity, and what the benefits and drawbacks of local food-based systems are versus global supply chains. Along with, what can people and institutions do from farmers to processors to government to build more resilient food supply chains in the face of climate change and future pandemics.