Seminar

In-person Event: March 7, 2024 – 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM GMT+10. This seminar will provide results of the rural household survey and discuss opportunities for promoting agricultural transformation for economic growth and food security in PNG. 

Seminar: March 7, 2024 – 08:00 AM to 09:00 AM EST. IFPRI is participating 2024 Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the IDB.

Event: May 7, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 1:00 PM EEST. This launch event will address venues through which impact evaluation informs policymaking with a focus on social protection programs in Egypt, bringing officials, researchers, implementers, and NGOs together to share major findings and options for the future.

Hybrid event: Dec. 5, 2022, from 6:00 am to 8:00 am EST. This seminar will discuss results from an ongoing effort by KIPPRA and CGIAR’s National Policies and Strategies Initiative to model the expected impacts of implementing the plan on key socioeconomic outcomes such as the food system, diets, jobs, poverty, and inequality.

Virtual Event: August 26, 2022 – 6:30 AM to 9:15 AM EDT. This event will highlight trends, good practices, and recommendations for multidimensional, digitally-enables agricultural extension.

Virtual Event: May 24, 2022 – 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM EDT. This event will discuss the role of policy and size of irrigation in supporting the poorest food producers and consumers in these challenging times.

Developing a framework to address climate change through food system research, measuring & tracking resilience programming, & translating strategies. in West Africa.

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Both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic present powerful reminders of the importance of a resilient agricultural sector for ensuring food security and for protecting livelihoods and jobs. Yet, over the past decade, Egypt’s agricultural sector performance and output growth in key food crops has slowed. The future of agriculture in the face of climate […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is an important reminder and rationale for investing in resilient value chains and agri-food systems. The pandemic revealed important vulnerabilities in national and global food systems. Although the pandemic continues to ravish national economies, these impacts vary across sectors and value chains. Most sectors and value chains are being (negatively) affected by […]

Digitization and digital tools provide an opportunity to make food systems more productive and efficient, climate-smart, and inclusive. The COVID-19 pandemic is a strong reminder of the potential of digital tools and digitalization to build resilient and sustainable food systems. Recent studies show that global demand for digital tools has significantly increased during the pandemic, […]

IFPRI’s Egypt Strategy Support Program (Egypt SSP) is organizing a seminar on “COVID-19 and social protection: From effective crisis protection to self-reliance.” The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are increasing poverty around the world. As one of the key immediate policy responses to cushion the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable, many […]

IFPRI experts examine what to expect, and how developing countries can respond in ways that promote food security, nutrition, and greater equity.

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IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report was officially launched on April 07 and highlights the critical role that inclusive food systems can play, looking specifically at the obstacles and opportunities as well as the tools and technologies for building inclusive food systems. COVID-19 is having an immense impact on our health and food systems on […]

COVID-19 is threatening food security and livelihoods, particularly in developing countries. IFPRI researchers are taking an early look at global- and country-level implications.

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IFPRI is participating in the Agricultural Trade and the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems seminar on March 4, 2020. The event will address the role of trade and global value chains in sustainable food systems and the role that private standards and public regulations play in this process, drawing on a variety of empirical indicators and studies. […]

IFPRI is participating in the launch of the World Bank’s new report, “Obesity: Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge.”  The report discusses how obesity-related diseases are among the top three killers across the globe. Long believed to be a problem exclusive to high-income countries, over 70 percent of the world’s 2 billion […]

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries are known for high levels of overweight and obesity. Most predictions suggest that the rates of overweight and obesity have been increasing and are expected to reach alarming rates in the next few decades; there are several explanations that justify why. This seminar aims to shed […]

On November 13, 2019 IFPRI is organizing a project closing and dissemination event to present findings from a 3-year research study conducted by IFPRI, with funding from the Government of Flanders, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM), GIZ, and USAID Strengthening Agricultural and Nutrition Extension (SANE). Launched in July 2016, the 3-year […]

IFPRI is participating in an international seminar on Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture in Latin America, which will be held on October 10th and 11th, 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This international seminar will discuss the difficulties and prospects for agriculture in Latin America, a region that currently accounts for a quarter of total exports […]

Using household consumption data collected in 2017/18, this chapter analyzes patterns of urban and rural food consumption in Senegal. We adopt two methodological approaches. The first is an in-depth (spatial) analysis of current diets and corresponding nutrient deficiencies, coupled with an identification of possible food items to address existing nutrient gaps. The second approach is […]

IFPRI is co-organizing a session at World Water Week 2019 with the the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition, The World Bank Group and the Stockholm International Water Institute. One out of every third person lives in a water stressed environment. It is, however, not only the magnitudes that link water and nutrition—the challenges and solutions […]

On July 23, 2019, the Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are co-organizing an interactive review of changes of selected indicators from 2011/12 baseline to 2018/19 endline for the Feed the Future (FTF) Zone of Influence, using data from two rounds of PRSSP’s Bangladesh Integrated Household […]