IFPRI Podcast

Speaker: Ray Goldberg, Professor of Agriculture and Business, Harvard Business School The global food system is the largest sector of the world's economy, and critical for the health of our planet—from land and water resources to plants, animals, and people. Managing this system is a huge responsibility, requiring women and men who are efficient, creative, and caring. Public, private, and not-for-...

The PIM Webinar “Helping smallholder farmers manage risks: Innovations to improve agricultural insurance” was conducted on September 19, 2018 by Berber Kramer (IFPRI) and Patrick Ward (Duke Kunshan University). We discussed two research-based innovations in the agricultural insurance: (1) bundling of index-based insurance products with novel climate-smart risk-reducing agricultural technologies an...

Speaker: Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to...

Speaker: Letitia Obeng, Global Water Partnership Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources...

Speaker: Mark Rosegrant, Research Fellow Emeritus, IFPRI Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest re...

Speaker: Steven Schonberger, Global Lead for Water in Agriculture, Water Global Practice, World Bank Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly...

Speaker: Betsy Otto, Global Director, Water, World Resources Institute Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those...

Speaker: Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau for Food Security, US Agency for International Development (USAID) Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and ac...

Speaker: Meredith Giordano, Principal Researcher and IWMI Representative (USA) Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world...

Speaker: Claudia Sadoff, Director General, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts...

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Yeva Avakyan, Associate Vice President, Gender Equality, Save the Children The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations ar...

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Audrey Anderson, Technical Program Director for the BRIGE Program, Mercy Corps The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organization...

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Greg Seymour, Associate Research Fellow, pro-WEAI and GCAN, IFPRI The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recogni...

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Sophie Theis, Research Analyst and Gender Specialist for GCAN, IFPRI The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are reco...

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Tom Spangler, Director of Resilience and Livelihoods, Save the Children and Consortium Lead for the REAL Award The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks...

IFPRI Policy Seminar: Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recognizing that individua...

Speaker: Marcos Sawaya Jank, President, Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance and IFPRI Board member Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward. At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director...

Speaker: Mary Bohman, Administrator, Economic Research Service, USDA Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward. At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fa...

Speaker: Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward. At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan will share insights...

Speaker: Maurício Antônio Lopes, President, Embrapa Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward. At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan will share insi...

Introductory Remarks by Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Coordinator, Embrapa, Labex-USA Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward. At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General S...

Moderator: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs. Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward. At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General Shen...

Presenter: Eduardo Nakasone, Assistant Research Fellow, IFPRI and Assistant Professor, Michigan State University. The United Nations has recognized the importance of reducing food loss and waste in the Sustainable Development Goal target 12.3 to “halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest lo...

Closing Remarks: Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI The Global Report on Food Crises provides food security and nutrition analyses from countries that are chronically vulnerable to food crises and have large populations facing acute food insecurity. The Report draws attention to rising levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly associated with conflict and the impact of extreme cl...

Panelist: Luca Russo, Senior Strategic Advisor on Resilience, FAO and Steering Committee Member, Food Security Information Network (FSIN) The Global Report on Food Crises provides food security and nutrition analyses from countries that are chronically vulnerable to food crises and have large populations facing acute food insecurity. The Report draws attention to rising levels of food insecurity a...