IFPRI Podcast

POLICY SEMINAR Financing food systems transformation JUL 13, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT In the run-up to the UN Food Systems Summit, excitement is building around game-changing solutions emerging from the Action Tracks and country policy priorities identified in national dialogues. Development of these solutions is benefiting from the lens of the five UNFSS cross-cutting levers and the eviden...

PIM Webinar Feminization of Agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current challenges and opportunities (Webinar No. 2) July 7, 2021 While the term “feminization” of agriculture is used with both positive and negative connotation, the reality is more complex. In order to get a better understanding of what is happening on the ground, research teams from across CGIAR have been working sin...

POLICY SEMINAR UNFSS Science Days Side Event: COVID-19, food systems, and One Health in an urbanizing world: Research responses at a national level Co-Organized by CGIAR and RUAF JUL 6, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT COVID-19’s relentless march across the globe and subsequent lockdowns and restrictions have affected the lives of women and men everywhere, far beyond health impacts alone. Fragiliti...

POLICY SEMINAR UNFSS Science Days Side Event: Reforming Agricultural Policies to Support Food Systems Transformation Co-organized by IFPRI, Indian Council for International Economic Research (ICRIER) and Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University JUL 7, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government suppor...

PIM Webinar Value Chain Development and the Poor June 17, 2021 In recent years, value chain development (VCD) in the agrifood system has been hailed as a practical way to expand market access for smallholder producers, reduce poverty, enhance environmental sustainability, and improve food security and gender equity. Despite significant investments in VCD from governments, donors, and NGOs, however...

POLICY SEMINAR Global Report on Food Crises 2021: Building resilience to prevent food crises and conflict Co-Organized by IFPRI, FSIN, FAO North America, World Food Program USA and the Food Security Portal JUN 17, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT Acute food insecurity continued to rise in 2020, driven by the pandemic shock, ongoing conflicts, and extreme weather. The number of people needing urgent...

PIM Webinar June 10, 2021 Feminization of Agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths This PIM webinar presents the findings from five projects that comprised a set of PIM grants on Feminization of Agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current challenges and opportunities ( https://pim.cgiar.org/2018/10/11/feminization-of-agriculture-call-for-proposals-five-projects-selected/). Rese...

POLICY SEMINAR CGIAR COVID-19 Hub Seminar: COVID-19 and Implications for One Health Research Co-Organized by CGIAR COVID-19 Hub and IFPRI MAY 4, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT The connections between human, animal, and environmental health have never been more evident than during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub, researchers are using integrated modeling to provide policy recom...

POLICY SEMINAR Evolving factors shaping trade in agriculture and food APR 26, 2021 - 08:00 AM TO 09:30 AM EDT Agricultural trade is shaped by geopolitical, geo-economic, social, and cultural trends. These can lead to more or less globalization, but which is better for agriculture and food security? International trade in food favors production in the most efficient regions, a factor of growing imp...

One of the most important drivers for food system transformation is finance. In Episode Two of "On the Table," IFPRI's Charlotte Hebebrand ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/charlotte-hebebrand ) and Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/eugenio-diaz-bonilla ) discuss ideas for funding change and share insights into the work of the UN Food Systems Summit Finance Lever. Links: IFPRI res...

GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT GLOBAL LAUNCH EVENT - 2021 Global Food Policy Report: Transforming Food Systems After COVID-19 APR 13, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT COVID-19 has upended local, national, and global food systems, and put the Sustainable Development Goals further out of reach. But lessons and momentum from the world’s response to the pandemic can contribute to food system change. In the...

POLICY SEMINAR Examining the State of Community-led Development Programming Co-Organized by IFPRI and Movement for Community-led Development APR 7, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT Community-led development (CLD) is a complex human change process. Join us as we dive into the Movement for Community-led Development’s State of CLD Programming report to understand what organizations are doing when they...

PIM Webinar April 8, 2021 Beyond agriculture: Measuring agri-food system GDP and employment Transformation of the agri-food system is a cornerstone of many governments’ national development plans and is key to the One GGIAR goals of contributing to more inclusive agricultural growth, healthier diets, and more sustainable production systems. Agri-food systems remain crucial for the livelihoods and...

POLICY SEMINAR Tackling child undernutrition at scale: Insights from national and subnational success cases Co-Organized by IFPRI and Exemplars in Global Health APR 1, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT Childhood undernutrition remains a major global challenge, with profound consequences for the health, well-being, and long-term development of millions of people. Strategies to tackle malnutrition hav...

POLICY SEMINAR Towards Resilient Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition for All: Confronting the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 Co-Organized by IFPRI, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank MAR 23, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns continue to have devastating effects around the globe, including in rural areas...

POLICY SEMINAR Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation: Implications for research and the One CGIAR agenda MAR 19, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT “Innovations do not diffuse independently of enabling market, regulatory, and sociocultural environments. Scaling promising technological advances requires sociotechnical innovation bundles of context-dependent, customize...

SPECIAL EVENT The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit: How to Incentivize Food Loss and Waste Reduction? Co-Organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Embassy of Denmark in Washington D.C., World Resources Institute, and Champions 12.3 MAR 12, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST The ongoing COVID-19 health crisis continues to expose vulnerabilities in food systems, highlighting...

The first feature in IFPRI's new video series, "On the Table," provides an insightful interview with our Director for Africa, Jemimah Njuki. Njuki has long been a leader in gender equality and women's empowerment in Africa's agriculture sectors, and this year was named a UN Food Systems Summit Champion and leader of the summit's women's empowerment lever of change. She shares how a gender lens has...

POLICY SEMINAR Food systems lessons from COVID-19: From understanding fragilities to building resilience Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub MAR 2, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST COVID-19’s impacts on our global food system have affected the food security and nutritional wellbeing of millions of people worldwide, with market closures, supply disruptions, and income and employment los...

BOOK LAUNCH Resetting the Table: Straight talk about the food we grow and eat FEB 10, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 10:30 AM EST Consumers want to know more about their food–including the farm from which it came, the chemicals used in its production, its nutritional value, how the animals were treated, and the costs to the environment. They are being told that buying organic foods, unprocessed and sourced fr...

BOOK LAUNCH An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia? FEB 9, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 10:30 AM EST Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent’s evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in adopting mechanizatio...

BOOK LAUNCH Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World FEB 4, 2021 - 08:30 AM TO 09:30 AM EST The changing global landscape, combined with new and better data, technologies, and understanding, means that agriculture can and must contribute to a wider range of development outcomes than ever before, including reducing poverty, ensuring adequate nutrition, creating strong food val...

POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - Building back better: How can public food and agricultural research institutions be strengthened and rebuilt after the COVID-19 pandemic? Co-Organized by IFPRI and the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) FEB 2, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST The COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges and new opportunities for publicly funded food and a...

PIM Virtual Launch Event Forest Tenure Pathways to Gender Equality: A Practitioner's Guide January 29, 2021, 9:00-10:00 AM EST There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas, such as policy and law-making and implementation,...

POLICY SEMINAR Local vs Global? The role of trade in building food system resilience JAN 13, 2021 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the global economy and put pressure on food supply chains, debate has resurged about the role of trade in protecting food security. Though food supply chains have proved fairly resilient during the outbreak, many countries...