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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Danielle Resnick

Danielle Resnick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit and a Non-Resident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on the political economy of agricultural policy and food systems, governance, and democratization, drawing on extensive fieldwork and policy engagement across Africa and South Asia.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Sixteenth Session of the AMIS Global Food Market Information Group

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

October 7 to 9, 2019

  • 8:00 – 5:00 pm (America/Sao_Paulo)
  • 7:00 – 4:00 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 4:30 – 1:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 16th session of the Global Food Market Information Group in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October 7 – 9, 2019, where policy makers, economists, agribusiness and food industry leaders, academics, financiers, and insurers from all around the world will discuss:

  • Latest developments and forecasts concerning global wheat, maize, rice and soybean markets
  • Recent developments in crop surveys, utilization and stocks
  • Methodology applied in official agricultural statistics in Brazil
  • Update on African Swine Fever (ASF) and implications on feed markets
  • 2019’s exceptionally difficult situation in the United States as regards to early forecasts for plantings and production
  • Export competition in the rice market

Research Initiatives from Secretariat Member Organizations and Other AMIS Partners (October 8, 2019 — 3:30 – 5:30 pm)

Enhanced and Revised Excessive Food Price Volatility Index

  • Rob Vos, Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, IFPRI

Monitoring of Seed Market Trends

  • Rob Vos, Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, IFPRI