International Food Policy Research Institute
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI is a CGIAR research center (@cgiar.org). www.ifpri.org
- 📙 The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! ☕ Enjoy reading: on.cgiar.org/4j5eD0H 🔗 Find more IFPRI publications here: on.cgiar.org/43j0Hu4 @cgiar.org 🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing
- 🆕 #Blog: Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity 🖋️ By Emily Myers, Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Flor Paz, Chiara Brunelli, and Chiara Gnetti. 🖱️ Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/4d6Sptu @cgiar.org
- 📣 Don't miss this next #webinar in the IFPRI Modeling Systems series: 📌 How vulnerable are economies to systemic risks? New approaches to assessing economic and climate-related shocks 📆 May 14, 2025, 9:30–10:30am EDT 🎫 Register: on.cgiar.org/43lEMn2 🤝 IFPRI & @cgiar.org
- 📆 Mark your calendars: 📣 Please join us for the launch of IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report! ⏲️ May 28, 2025, 9:00am – 12:30pm EDT 📍In-person and online. 🎫 Register here: bit.ly/GFPR2025 @cgiar.org #GFPR2025 #IFPRI50
- 📚 The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! Enjoy reading! 🔗 on.cgiar.org/433mE05 🧪 #FoodPolicy #Nutrition #Research #Publications @cgiar.org
- 💡 50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱 Today we feature the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 🏠📊🌾 🔗 Learn more: on.cgiar.org/4d2GcpQ #IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations #FoodSecurity #FoodSystems #RuralDevelopment #Agriculture #Data @cgiar.org
- 🌍 🍽️ The world is nowhere near the goal of zero hunger by 2030 amid uncertain global development financing. What now? 🆕 #blog by @jealleniv.bsky.social 🔗 on.cgiar.org/4k8QW8D @cgiar.org @fao.org @ifad.org @wfp.org
- Our latest “Faces of IFPRI” video features Tigist Gedeb, Senior Finance Manager, who discusses her favorite things about working at IFPRI and the projects she is most proud of contributing to in her 23 years at the Institute. 🌱 🌍 📽️ Watch the video here: on.cgiar.org/4mcDVwH #IFPRI50 #FacesofIFPRI
- 📢 The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! 🗞️ Enjoy reading! 🔗 on.cgiar.org/4iHqj9D 🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing @cgiar.org
- 💡 50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱 Today we feature the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative🌱 🔬 📊 🔗Learn more here: www.ifpri.org/project/asti/ #IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations #FoodSecurity #FoodPolicy #Research #Innovation @cgiar.org @fao.org
- #NowReading Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS‐ISA and World Bank Enterprise Surveys 🖊️ By Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, and Cristhian Pulido. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jaa2... 🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing @cgiar.org
- 🚜 Farmer producer organizations (FPOs) allow participants to pool resources, engage with markets, and share profits. 44,460 FPOs have been created in India since 2013. 🔗 Learn more about IFPRI research on FPOs in this recent blog: on.cgiar.org/4hRfwZT @cgiar.org
- 📘 Our latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! 🖱️ on.cgiar.org/3Ycvrv8 🧪 #FoodPolicy #Nutrition #Research #Publications @cgiar.org
- 🔔 #HappeningNow: “Ending Hunger and #Malnutrition: Keeping Our Eyes on the Road "🔔 📺 Watch #ifpriLIVE: 🎫 bit.ly/ending_hunger 🤝 bit.ly/ending_hungerFB 💼 bit.ly/ending_hungerLI @cgiar.org
- 🌐 🩺 🍽️ A one health approach to address foodborne diseases in low‑ and middle‑income countries 🖋️ By Praveen Kumar and Wei Zhang. 🔗 doi.org/10.5334/aogh... 🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing @cgiar.org
- 🌍 📈 This #IFPRIPolicySeminar will chart solutions towards more aligned public + private financing flows aimed at ending hunger and malnutrition while exploring the important role of jobs in food value chains and improved livelihoods for furthering food security and nutrition: on.cgiar.org/3YE63yn
- 📚 The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! 🔗 Read this week’s selection here: on.cgiar.org/3RjgVOg 🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing @cgiar.org
- #NowReading Methods for estimating beneficiary populations targeted by health and nutrition interventions for women, pregnant women, infants, and young children 🖋️ By Soyra Gune, Phuong H Nguyen, and Suman Chakrabarti. 🖱️ Read the #OpenAccess article here: doi.org/10.1093/aje/... @cgiar.org
- The latest #IFPRIInsights is out! In this issue: 🎉 IFPRI@50 🌐 U.S. tariffs & global ag trade 🫐 Peru’s blueberry boom 🌍 New IFPRI Africa CAADP engagement strategy 💡 Transform Nutrition West Africa + more! Read: on.cgiar.org/3E6cQtP @cgiar.org
- 3️⃣ days until this #Conference: 📌 Two Years of Crisis: Impact and Pathways to Recovery and #Resilience 🗓️April 14- 15, 2025 - 9:00 to 5:00PM EAT / 2:00 to 10:00AM EDT 📍 Nairobi, Kenya & online 🎟️ Register here: bit.ly/SDCrisis @cgiar.org
- 📣 IFPRI is pleased to announce that Wei Zhang has been appointed to the prestigious ad hoc study committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). 🔗 Read the #PressRelease: on.cgiar.org/3G060GV @cgiar.org
- 📣The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! 🔗Read the latest selection here: on.cgiar.org/4cqsLj2 🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing #IFPRIWeeklyReads
- 🔵 🌎 Peru’s rapid rise as the world’s leading blueberry exporter 🆕 #blog by Valeria Piñeiro, Yostina Girgies, Fernando Martín, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, and Joe Glauber. 🖱️ Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/3EcMvds @cgiar.org
- 🌍 Don’t miss this #CGIARScienceWeek Science Talk: 📌 Science and Innovation for Resilient Food Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings 📅 8-10 am EAT 🗨️ IFPRI Speaker’s include @jo-swinnen.bsky.social @kkosec.bsky.social Kibrom Abay, and Yanyan Liu. 🖱️ on.cgiar.org/422ka2D @cgiar.org
- 👏IFPRI congratulates Marie Ruel and Jef Leroy for their recent awards from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) @nutritionorg.bsky.social. Marie Ruel will be inducted into the 2025 Class of Distinguished Fellows of ASN: on.cgiar.org/3E4Jgog
- Jef Leroy has been announced as an awardee of the inaugural group of ASN Excellence in Nutrition Fellows: on.cgiar.org/4l6BHy0 The fellows will be honored in Orlando at #Nutrition2025. @nutritionorg.bsky.social @cgiar.org
- 🌍 IFPRI is pleased to announce that Steven Were Omamo has been appointed IFPRI’s Director for #Africa, in addition to his role as Director of the Development Strategies and Governance Unit (DSG). 📣 #PressRelease: on.cgiar.org/42hLd8S @cgiar.org
- 💡 50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱 🔆🔭 Today we feature the Kaleidoscope Model: on.cgiar.org/4lcgpz3 #IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations #FoodSecurity #Nutrition #FoodPolicy #Research #Innovation @michiganstateu.bsky.social
- 🆕 on our #blog: 🌱 📈 Navigating growth challenges: Strengthening farmer producer organizations in Odisha, India 🖋️ By Amit Burman 🔗 on.cgiar.org/4hRfwZT @cgiar.org
- ☕ 📑 This week's selection of peer-reviewed journal articles co-authored by IFPRI researchers is now online on LinkedIn! 🔗 on.cgiar.org/3Rzqg4k #publications #research #academicpublishing #foodsecurity #nutrition @cgiar.org
- IFPRI Director General @jo-swinnen.bsky.social will participate in the inaugural CGIAR Science Week in Nairobi, Kenya. ♻️🌾 Learn more about #CGIARScienceWeek and explore how we can create a sustainable and food-secure future: on.cgiar.org/49e0KZs #WithScienceWeCan @cgiar.org
- 📈 Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) has been a cornerstone of child nutrition programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for decades. A 🆕 🗞️ raises important questions about the current practice of GMP, which remains widely implemented across LMICs: on.cgiar.org/4hviaUY @cgiar.org
- Our latest “Faces of IFPRI” video features Agnes Quisumbing @agnesq.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, who reflects on 30 years of policy research based on extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. 🌱 🌏 📽️ Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxR... @cgiar.org #IFPRI50
- Save the date! 📆 April 22, 9:30 AM EDT 📌 Ending Hunger and #Malnutrition: Keeping Our Eyes on the Road 🤝IFPRI and the World Bank 📍In-person & online 🎟️ bit.ly/ending_hunger @cgiar.org
- From 2017-2021, Transform Nutrition West Africa (TNWA) reached 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕ West African nutrition professionals who participated in 4 courses to strengthen their capacity and leadership skills. Learn more: on.cgiar.org/4bz0SVU @cgiar.org
- #NowReading A missing link: The interdependence between sugar-sweetened beverage and cigarette consumption from China 🖊️ By Lu Liu and Kevin Chen. 🔗 Read the #OpenAccess article here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @cgiar.org
- 📣 IFPRI’s Purnima Menon and Inge Brouwer will participate in the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2025 this week in Paris, France. 🖱️ More information: on.cgiar.org/41YVR4q 🔗 #N4GParis website: on.cgiar.org/42708D2 @cgiar.org
- 📘 Our latest selection of Weekly Reads from IFPRI are now online on LinkedIn! 🔗 Read more here: on.cgiar.org/41ZBJzf 🧪 #Research #AcademicPublishing @cgiar.org
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- Join our next #webinar in the IFPRI Modeling Systems series: 📌 How Can We Improve Food Security Monitoring in Conflict-Affected Regions? Machine Learning for Spatially Granular Food Security Mapping 📅 March 25, 2025, 9:30 – 10:30 am EDT 🎟️ on.cgiar.org/4l0MTMH @cgiar.org
- This 🆕 📄 provides an overview of a virtual collection of papers analyzing what has been learnt from various interventions to address micronutrient malnutrition, the contexts in which they succeed, and factors that affect their impact: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... @cgiar.org @agnesq.bsky.social
- 💡 50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱 Today, on #WorldWaterDay we feature the “Scaling up experiential learning tools for sustainable water governance in India” project 💧 🔗https://on.cgiar.org/4kK3tjP #IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations @bmz.de @giz.de @cgiar.org
- Mark your calendars! 📅April 14-15 ⏰9:00AM EAT/2:00AM EDT 📌#Conference: Two Years of Crisis: Impact and Pathways to Recovery and Resilience 🤝IFPRI, CGIAR Policy Innovations, CGIAR Food Frontiers and Security 🎟️bit.ly/SDCrisis @cgiar.org
- ☀️⛈️ Weather related shocks lead to pervasive welfare outcomes. @henrykankwamba.bsky.social assesses distributional impacts and resilience enhancing pathways in #Malawi in this 🆕 study: doi.org/10.1080/0303... @cgiar.org
- Join our next #webinar in the IFPRI Modeling Systems series: 📌 How Can We Improve Food Security Monitoring in Conflict-Affected Regions? Machine Learning for Spatially Granular Food Security Mapping 📅 March 25, 2025, 9:30 – 10:30 am EDT 🎟️ on.cgiar.org/4l0MTMH @cgiar.org
- 📣 Happening tomorrow: 📌 Side Event: Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Large Scale Surveys Meet IFPRI’s Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, & @agnesq.bsky.social at the UN women 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York: 🔗 Register here: on.cgiar.org/4hjOrOR @cgiar.org @fao.org
- 📺 Watch the livestream here: on.cgiar.org/3Y0gdsK
- Meet IFPRI’s Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, and @agnesq.bsky.social at the UN Women 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York this week: 🔗 Register here: on.cgiar.org/4hjOrOR See more about IFPRI's participation in #CSW69 👉 lnkd.in/enf6HkWF @cgiar.org
- 📺 Watch the livestream here: on.cgiar.org/3Y0gdsK
- 📣 The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! 🔗Read more here: on.cgiar.org/4kYTY0f 🧪 #AcademicPublishing #Research #IFPRIWeeklyReads @cgiar.org
- #NowReading Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises ✏️ By @claudiaringler.bsky.social and co-authors. 🔗 📄 Read the article here: doi.org/10.1038/s418... @cgiar.org #WorldWaterDay
