IFPRI Podcast

POLICY SEMINAR Can agricultural policies deliver better value for money for people, the planet, and the economy? Co-Organized by IFPRI and World Bank Group FEB 2, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EST The massive support provided to agriculture by governments — $639 billion per year during 2016–18 — has not incentivized sustainable patterns of food production and consumption, leading to calls to “repurpose”...

MEDIA BRIEFING Repurposing Agricultural Policies and Support: Options to Transform Agriculture and Food Systems to Better Serve the Health of People, Economies, and the Planet February 1, 2022

POLICY SEMINAR Making agrifood systems more resilient to shocks and stresses Co-Organized by IFPRI and FAO in North America JAN 19, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EST The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of agrifood systems to shocks and stresses, as it increased global food insecurity and malnutrition. Action is needed to make agrifood systems more resilient, efficient, sustainable, and inclus...

PIM Webinar Cash transfers and intimate partner violence: Case studies from Ethiopia and Ghana Organized by PIM and the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative in support of the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign December 10, 2021 A growing evidence base demonstrates that cash transfer programs, primarily meant to address poverty and vulner...

PIM Webinar Book Launch: African Farmers, Value Chains and Agricultural Development December 9, 2021 At first glance, African smallholder farmers might seem unproductive, as their crops yield much less than potential and are often of variable quality. A new PIM-supported book “African Farmers, Value Chains, and Agricultural Development” argues that in fact they are largely producing following rati...

PIM Webinar Tenure Security and Landscape Governance of Natural Resources December 7, 2021 Tenure Security and Landscape Governance of Natural Resources Equitable and secure tenure arrangements and well-performing rural governance institutions can contribute to better-distributed incomes and foster investment and technological innovation in agriculture. On the other hand, tenure regimes, if contro...

PIM Webinar Migration and Global Agri-Food Systems: Insights from CGIAR Research and Beyond December 2, 2021 Migration is an intrinsic part of the development process, representing one of the greatest opportunities to facilitate economic and social advancement in developing countries. At the same time, migration presents one of the world’s biggest challenges—particularly when it is non-voluntary,...

POLICY SEMINAR Disciplining Domestic Support NOV 30, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:00 AM EST The upcoming WTO Ministerial in late November will provide yet another opportunity to address and reform agricultural domestic support. The domestic support pillar has been at the heart of the agricultural negotiations since they began in 2000, but it has proven challenging to achieve consensus on how to advance r...

PIM Webinar COVID-19 and agricultural value chains: Impacts and adaptations November 29, 2021 In 2020, researchers working under “Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains” (https://pim.cgiar.org/research/f3/) flagship under the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) developed a set of standardized questionnaires for assessing the impact of COVID-19 on agricultural value ch...

BOOK LAUNCH Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) NOV 23, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:15 AM EST The past decade has seen renewed, and more concerted and comprehensive interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment in the agricultural develo...

SPECIAL EVENT Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Reflections from a Career in Research for Development Co-Organized by CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and IFPRI NOV 22, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST John McDermott, Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), presents experiences and insights gained over four decades...

PIM Webinar Agricultural extension and rural advisory services: From research to action November 11, 2021 Extension is a critical pathway from scientific discovery to durable impact at scale, as farmers and other actors in the rural economy learn, adapt, and innovate with new technologies and practices. This webinar presents selected findings from a synthesis of PIM research on agricultural extens...

PIM Webinar Webinar 2: Methods for studying gender dynamics in value chains beyond the production node and single commodity analysis October 28, 2021 Second webinar in the series presenting results of six projects supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in analyzing gender roles, responsibilities, and relations in agricultural value chains beyond the pr...

MARTIN J. FORMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE Food and Youth: What I have learned from young people and their desire to fix the food systems they live in 31st Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture OCT 28, 2021 - 10:00 AM TO 11:30 AM EDT In this year’s Martin J. Forman lecture, UNICEF’s Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore, an avid champion of children and young people’s rights, will reflect on the children...

PIM Webinar Innovations in agricultural insurance: Lessons learnt about managing smallholder farmer risks October 26, 2021 Market and weather-related risks pose significant challenges to smallholder producers. These risks can make production and incomes volatile from year to year, reduce food security, threaten assets and financial security, and make farmers hesitant to invest in new technologies...

BOOK LAUNCH The Road Towards the WTO MC12: A Latin America and the Caribbean Perspective Co-Organized by IFPRI and Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) OCT 27, 2021 - 12:00 PM TO 01:00 PM EDT In the run-up to the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference, major challenges face the governance of agricultural and food trade. In today’s context of change and uncertainty, the relat...

POLICY SEMINAR Ideas for confronting climate change today OCT 14, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 10:45 AM EDT In the lead up to CoP26 (https://ukcop26.org/), IFPRI researchers put forward four ideas for confronting climate change in the context of food systems. Rapid-fire presentations will describe these key ideas: - research for the future of food systems under climate change - transforming food systems thr...

POLICY SEMINAR Global Food 50/50 Report: Inaugural report on gender, diversity and power in the global food system Co-Organized by IFPRI and Global Health 50/50 OCT 5, 2021 - 08:00 AM TO 09:15 AM EDT In the lead up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, tens of thousands of people participated in a global civic experience to produce a shared framework of collective action. Gender equality and women’s...

POLICY SEMINAR Developing Resilience to Climate Change and Achieving Food Security in West Africa: Follow up Action from the UN Food Systems Summit Co-Organized by West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) and IFPRI SEP 30, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:30 AM EDT Organized by IFPRI and WASCAL, this collaborative seminar will address issues, constraints, and challe...

SPECIAL EVENT Funding Food System Transformation in Developing Countries: An example from Ethiopia UNFSS Side Event -- Co-organized by IFPRI, The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CGIAR SEP 23, 2021 - 09:30 AM EDT As countries develop national plans for food systems transformation, serious efforts are needed to mobilize the financial resources for design, implementation, and M&E. Ethi...

POLICY SEMINAR Making the most of intra-African trade: the 2021 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor Co-Organized by IFPRI and AKADEMIYA2063 SEP 23, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT African countries have diversified their exports and trade partners over the last decade, but agricultural trade still lags behind its potential. The pandemic and recent implementation of the African Continental Free Trade...

PIM Webinar Myths About the Feminization of Agriculture: Implications for Global Food Security September 14, 2021 The feminization of agriculture is a term used to describe women’s increased roles in agriculture in many parts of the world. However, the changes occurring in the agricultural sector are more complex than this term suggests. In this webinar, we will present and discuss findings of a n...

Food Security Portal Virtual Seminar Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Predict Poverty and Malnutrition for Targeting, Mapping, Monitoring, and Early Warning July 28, 2021, 08:00 am EDT Increasingly plentiful data and powerful predictive algorithms have heightened the promise of data science for humanitarian and development programming. As agencies increasingly embrace and invest in machine l...

Food Security Portal Virtual Seminar Better Measures of Land Surface Temperatures and Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) to Improve Monitoring for Drought-Stressed Crops and Crop Productivity July 20, 2021, 10:00 am EDT Weather and climate shocks (such as droughts, floods, and heat waves) can imperil climate-sensitive agricultural systems in food-insecure regions, threatening the livelih...

PIM Webinar Measuring employment and consumption in household surveys: Reflections from three survey experiments July 13, 2021, 10:00-11:00 am EDT Programs and policies designed to improve the lives of the poor often rely on an understanding of peoples’ livelihoods and welfare that is based on information collected during long, multi-topic household surveys. These survey efforts are invaluable too...