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Hybrid Event: September 20, 2023 – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM CEST. This event will present the WEMNS tool and discuss its use to further advance women’s empowerment.

Hybrid Event: September 19, 2023 – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM CEST. This event will provide a platform for implementers and partners to discuss approaches that have worked to empower women across projects and identify implications for future programming and scaling up.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative enabled Ukraine to export more than 30 million tonnes of grain from three Black Sea ports, but Russia withdrew from the initiative in July,” writes RFI (an outlet of Agence France Presse). The corridor “didn’t help Ukraine rebound in terms of their agricultural production” as the invasion deprived it of a […]

“Erratic climate conditions – including the driest August in more than a century – have sent food prices spiraling above 11% in India, which is a major player in global agri-trade,” writes the BBC News, India in a piece on India’s exportation of rice and other products.  The International Food Policy Research Institute believes that […]

“From Indian rice to Australian wheat, climate change is hitting yields, adding to food shortages and price spikes caused by the war in Ukraine. But there’s a way around it, analysts say,” writes Al-Jazeera.  “Now, with India banning the export of some rice altogether, global prices have soared further. Rice prices reached their highest levels […]

“Across south and south-east Asia, unpredictable weather is threatening supplies of rice, a staple food for more than half the world’s population. In July, India, the world’s largest rice exporter, imposed an export ban on non-basmati white rice after crops were damaged by heavy rains,” explains The Guardian (UK) in a story on global rice […]

A new project focuses on building resilience.

Politics Today included the IFPRI book “The Russia-Ukraine Conflict & Global Food Security”, edited by Joseph Glauber (senior research fellow) and David Laborde (formerly a senior research fellow) in its selection of most significant recent books addressing challenges and solutions to global food security. “From the intricacies of international trade policies to the sustainability of […]

Event: September 18, 2023 to November 17, 2023. IFPRI is participating in Regional Climate Weeks 2023.

Stakeholders grapple with rapid change.

Virtual IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series: September 26, 2023 at 9:00am-10:30am EDT. This seminar will take stock of existing early warning, early action systems (EWEAs) and examine whether they provide sufficient guidance to policymakers and decisionmakers keen to enhance anticipatory action.

Explaining a case of tariff arbitrage.

Washington, DC, USA – The annual Tropentag conference, a premier interdisciplinary event focusing on tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development, will take place from September 20 to September 22, 2023, in Berlin, Germany. Co-organized by The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, this year’s conference centers […]

“Analysts say that Russia’s inability to enforce a real blockade of Ukrainian ports may eventually push it to come back to a deal, as Ukrainian farmers remain the biggest losers from the lack of one”, writes The New Arab. “Talks between Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Monday failed […]

Hybrid Event: November 21, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EDT. The 33rd Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture will feature Dr. Simón Barquera, the Director of Nutrition and Health Research Center at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP) who will address the growing obesity epidemic and alarming rate of diet-related noncommunicable diseases in Mexico.

The flagship Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) calls for the diversification of import sources to mitigate the adverse effects of the Ukraine crisis. DAR ES SALAAM: African trade agreements can boost agricultural imports and exports and curb the adverse effects of climate change by including actionable provisions, according to the latest Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM), […]

September 5, 2023, Washington, DC: A comprehensive package of nutrition education interventions delivered through public primary schools can significantly improve dietary practices among adolescents, according to a new study published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. The research, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the FHI 360 Alive & Thrive initiative, […]