IFPRI is organizing a side-event at TICAD8 entitled ” How Japan’s know-how can help address Africa’s food and nutrition challenges: Interventions and impacts”.

To feed its growing population amid the food crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, climate change and other challenges, Africa needs a flourishing food system that is nutrition-sensitive, efficient, safe, and healthy. This requires bringing modern technologies to local communities, helping stakeholders to acquire the relevant technical know-how, and building strong institutions. Japan can play important roles in these efforts. The side event explores how Japan can lend its expertise to address Africa’s food and nutrition challenges and show some evidence of the impacts.

IFPRI Organizers 

• Hiroyuki Takeshima, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Futoshi Yamauchi, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Introduction

• Futoshi Yamauchi, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Presentation)

Reducing food loss and improving food and nutrition security through solar powered cold storages in northeast Nigeria

• Hiroyuki Takeshima, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Presentation)

Improving early childhood nutrition and growth in vulnerable communities hosting refugees in Ghana: An intervention with KOKO Plus

• Futoshi Yamauchi, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Presentation)

Training women on Japan’s traditional fish processing technique to improve fishery community livelihoods in Côte d’Ivoire

• Futoshi Yamauchi, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Presentation)

Promoting market-oriented horticulture in refugee hosting rural communities in Uganda

• Joseph Bbemba, Sasakawa Africa Association, Uganda (Presentation)

Using Commercial Microwave Links to improve forecasting and emergency response in rainstorm prone areas

• Yanyan Liu, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Presentation)

Innovations embodied in Japan’s school lunch program

• Nobuko Murayama, University of Niigata Prefecture/Japan Society for Nutrition and Dietetics, Japan (Presentation)

Saving young lives using plant-based ready-to-use therapeutic food in Malawi

• Makiko Yoshida, Ajinomoto Inc, Japan (Presentation)

Conclusion

• Hiroyuki Takeshima, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI