Workshop

Poor diets are a primary cause of malnutrition and the leading cause of disease worldwide. Improving diets, especially through increasing fruit and vegetable intake, can help to address these health and nutrition challenges. However, fruit and vegetable intake falls below recommended levels globally. The factors contributing to low fruit and vegetable consumption are complex, requiring […]

Event: May 2, 2023 – 9:00 AM to May 4, 2023 – 5:00 PM EDT. IFPRI-Sudan is organizing a capacity building workshop on food policy analysis using multi-market partial equilibrium modeling. This three-day training event will be held at the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) in Khartoum, Sudan and will be led by IFPRI’s Paul Dorosh and Khalid Siddig.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the PNG National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) have teamed up to support data-driven policy dialogue and formulation in Papua New Guinea. This workshop aims to inform key agricultural development challenges, opportunities, and investments in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Presentations will discuss results from recent data collection efforts […]

Virtual Event: NOV 9, 2021 – 08:00 AM to 10:30 AM EST. This technical workshop aims to mobilize various actors' efforts as well support the MALR consolidate and mainstream existing digital services in Egypt. 

Virtual Event: OCT 28, 2021 – 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM CAT. This workshop will disseminate the results of the impact evaluation of the InovAgro project's interventions. 

Virtual Event: OCT 11, 2021 – 9:30 PM to OCT 12, 2021 5:30 AM EDT. The purpose of this seminar is to share the evaluation results of the Xiangxi project with relevant stakeholders. 

Virtual Event: SEP 23, 2021 – 08:00PM to SEP 24, 2021 12:00 AM EDT. This workshop aims to explore China's integrated urban-rural development and to provide knowledge support for realizing common prosperity in China. 

South Africa is highly coal and energy-intensive, with an economy characterized by extremely high levels of unemployment and inequality. In the long run, sustainable growth and development in South Africa will depend crucially on the transition away from a coal-intensive energy system and economy and towards a climate-friendly and renewable energy system. How this happens, […]

DAY 1: AUGUST 26, 2019 Session 1: Welcome and Introductions The Genesis of a Convening on Measuring the Global Consequences of Inaction on Crop Genetic Diversity Why we Need to Understand the Costs of Inaction on the Conservation, Exchange, and Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Q&A Session 2: From Crop Genetic […]

SDC contracted IFPRI to conduct an independent quantitative impact assessment of the effects of InovAgro, an MSD project. The study, which had a baseline in 2015, longitudinally measures the impact on families of InovAgro’s approach to developing market systems for livelihoods of rural families in the value chains of soybean and pigeon peas in northern Mozambique. One […]

Approximately 80 percent of the population in PNG is semi-dependent on subsistence agriculture, however limited economic analysis exists to inform policy priorities aimed at sustainable growth and poverty reduction in rural areas. Renewed efforts to inform overall agricultural production and resilience in Papua New Guinea have taken place over the last several years. This workshop […]

IFPRI staff are participating in the 2018 Annual Scientific Gender Conference and Capacity Development Workshop convened by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research taking place September 25-28 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  IFPRI Participants: Systematizing Gender Within CGIAR Monitoring Systems (MEL/ MARLO/Other) (September 24, 2018 —  2:00pm – 3:30pm) […]

Rural Transformation refers to the change (usually as part of an economy-wide process of structural transformation) of rural areas that are poor and largely based on agriculture to more diversified and prosperous ones. Countries undergoing the process in the 21st century face a different context than those that did so in the 19th or 20th […]

The agricultural sector has long been viewed as a major driver of poverty reduction and food security in developing countries, but is now increasingly asked to also reduce the global burden of undernutrition. The linkages between agriculture and nutrition are complex, however. Agricultural growth contributes to income and can directly supply households with a variety […]

It is rapidly recognized that agriculture and nutrition problems are closely related to one another, but its relevance is not necessarily well incorporated into the food system. Adoption of nutritionally conscious agriculture (Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture) is an important step to change agriculture from the viewpoint of nutritional outcomes and is expected to be feasible even […]

The International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) new research program on “Food industries for people and planet” (FIPP) will expand traditional ways of thinking about the global food system and will provide evidence-based policy assessments aimed at making agri-food industries and food systems more inclusive in terms of employment and income opportunities, more efficient in […]

Irrigation is important in Ghana to deal with the erratic rainfall, especially in the context of climate change. Irrigation can minimize frequent food shortages that are attributable to dependence on rainfall, and increase yields. However, to do this effectively requires a range of infrastructure that will provide for a wide range of crops and efficient […]

Organized by IFPRI’s Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSPS), this workshop aims to bring together key stakeholders to discuss and debate critical issues related to poverty, hunger, and malnutrition that Bangladesh faces. Technical presentations will center on achieving sustainability in food production, consumption, and nutrition, and building resilience to climate and other shocks, with the […]

Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration showcase findings from the harmonized data in Bangladesh.

This workshop is jointly organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI’s) Strengthening Institutions and Governance (SIG) group and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by IFPRI. High quality rural governance has the potential to significantly improve the productivity and welfare of the poor—70 percent of whom live in […]

On November 4, 2016, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) hosted a seminar on The Present and Future of the Agricultural Mechanization in Latin America. The event brought together experts from different fields to discuss the current situation of agricultural mechanization in Latin America, particularly […]

The agriculture sector working group of the donor consortium – Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) in collaboration with the Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the Michigan State University (MSU) organized a workshop on 18th August, 2016 during the visit of IFPRI’s Director General Dr. […]

The purpose of the workshop is to explore current and future interactions between biofuels and food security, and elaborate learnings from analysis and field experience relevant for project developers, researchers and policy-makers. The workshop is organized around a six discussion topics and is designed to encourage discussion among participants. We aim to identify where consensus […]

Sharing Development Experiences The International Food Policy Research Institute and The National School of Development at Peking University are jointly organizing a workshop on agricultural mechanization in Asia and Africa in Beijing. Agricultural mechanization has recently become an emerging issue for Africa, while in many Asian countries the mechanization process started much earlier and has […]

IFPRI-European Research Collaboration for Improved Food and Nutrition Security The all-day “Partnering for Impact: IFPRI-European Research Collaboration for Improved Food and Nutrition Security” workshop will highlight the achievements of the innovative research programs IFPRI and European partners have jointly undertaken. The workshop will also support critical dialogue between researchers, development partners, policymakers, and implementers; discuss […]

IFPRI-hosted this workshop of CGIAR’s Global Futures for Agriculture where various stakeholder representatives from IFPRI and 10 other CGIAR centers reviewed the project’s newest strategic foresight methods and the types of technologies being used in the project. Each center presented a brief overview of the technologies and management systems being used in the Global Futures […]

Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC and the University of Kiel (EU-E-VAL Project), Kiel, Germany Background and objectives The last decades have seen a worldwide trend towards decentralization, both in developing and transition countries. By “bringing government closer to the people”, decentralization has a particular promise for reducing poverty and […]

Abstract​ The APSF Stakeholder Workshop convened policymakers, farmer organizations, donors, development partners, and members of the research community to learn about research findings on Nigeria’s agricultural development and to discuss future directions for the program. APSF is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and implemented by IFPRI’s Nigeria Strategy Support Program (NSSP), and works […]

Co-sponsored by the Global Development Network (GDN), Overseas Development Institute (ODI), World Bank Institute (WBI), and IFPRI. Agricultural development in Africa is regaining attention, particularly in the recent light of food security challenges. The World Bank and other donors, as well as African initiatives such as NEPAD, FARA, AGRA, etc. are investing major resources to […]

IFPRI/Aga Khan Foundation Workshop Throughout the South Asian region, women account for about 39 percent of the agricultural workforce, working as managers of land to agricultural laborers. The well-recognized low status of women in South Asia also has implications for women’s involvement in agriculture and the returns to women of their inputs into agriculture. Experience and […]