2023 Award Winners

Catherine Ragasa, a senior research fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit; Jordan Kyle, a research fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit; and Ning Ma, a research analyst in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit Won Best Poster Award for “Positivity Bias and Influencing Elite Attitudes on Women’s Leadership”, during the GENDER IMPACT Platform conference: "From Research to Impact: Toward Just and Resilient Agri-Food Systems", Oct 9-12, 2023. Ning Ma was the presenter.

Vartika Singh, a senior research analyst in the National Resources and Resilience Unit, received an Early Career Research Award (3000 USD) to advance her proposed research agenda and visit the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. This highly competitive award was given by Global-Local-Global Analysis of Systems Sustainability [GLASSNET] hosted at Purdue University, USA. 
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At the CGIAR GENDER Platform Conference, “From Research to Impact: Toward Just and Resilient Agri-Food Systems,” held October 9-12:
Prapti Barooah and Sonali Singh, senior research analysts in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit were recipients of awards. 

• Prapti Barooah won a Best Poster Award for “Understanding drivers and barriers for adoption of climate-smart agriculture through a gender lens: Evidence from India.”
• Sonali Singh won a Best Poster Award for “From seeds of change to harvesting equality: Women in India’s agroecology based agri-food system.”

Beliyou Haile, a research fellow in the Innovation and Policy Scaling unit, formerly in the Environment and Production Technology Division with Dawit Mekonnen, Jowel Choufani, Claudia Ringler (director of the Natural Resources and Resilience unit and former deputy director in the formerly Environment Production and Technology division), and Elizabeth Bryan (senior scientist, Natural Resources and Resilience, formerly in the Environment Production and Technology division) have been selected to be included in Water Economics and Policy (WEP) Journal Editors’ choice award for 2022 for the paper, Hierarchical Modelling of Small-Scale Irrigation: Constraints and Opportunities for Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Joseph Glauber, a senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions (MTI) unit, David Laborde (former Senior Research Fellow in MTI) , and Charlotte Hebebrand (Director of the Communications and Public Affairs unit) received the 2023 AAEA’s Quality of Communication Award for the special series of blog posts, briefs, and events analyzing the continuing repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine war and other factors exacerbating food price inflation and food insecurity (The Russia-Ukraine conflict and global food security).
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Johan Swinnen, IFPRI Director General and Managing Director, System Transformation, CGIAR, and co-author Miet Maertens, received the 2023 AAEA’s Publication of Enduring Quality Award for their paper Trade, standards, and poverty: Evidence from Senegal (World Development, 2009).

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