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Elodie Becquey

Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Transformative and scalable experiences for a new generation of public policies for agrifood systems

LAC Regional Launch of IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report

IICA HQ

600 m. northeast of the Ipis-Coronado intersection

Vazquez de Coronado, San Isidro

San Jose, Costa Rica

October 8 to 9, 2025

  • 3:00 – 5:40 pm (America/Costa_Rica)
  • 5:00 – 7:40 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 2:30 – 5:10 am (Asia/Kolkata)
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Promote a space for reflection and regional exchange aimed at identifying transformative and scalable experiences of agri-food public policies, with emphasis on those that generate public goods, articulate multiple actors and levels of government, incorporate innovative mechanisms and recognize the necessary enabling conditions for their implementation and sustainability.

This dialogue prioritizes:

  • Experiences of institutional transformation.
  • Realistic and feasible transition policies.
  • Integration of instruments (regulation, financing, approaches).
  • Mechanisms for effective governance and structured participation of governments, civil society, the private sector and international cooperation.
  • Capacity building, adequate financing, and regulatory frameworks as enabling conditions for public action.

October 8, 2025

Special Session: 50th Anniversary of IFPRI | Special Event | 15:00 pm – 17:40 pm (Costa Rica)

Food systems, economic structures, and rural areas in Latin America and the Caribbean have undergone profound transformation over the past five decades. Yet, the future of LAC’s food systems will depend on how the region anticipates change and acts accordingly. Drawing on foresight research, IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report highlights risks for the region, including an increase in extreme weather events, rapid urbanization, resource degradation, and geopolitical tensions, but also identifies opportunities for more equitable and sustainable paths. Avanzar2030 and other regional initiatives are providing further evidence that preparing for the future will require strategic foresight, institutional innovation, and commitment.  

Please join us for this event, where experts from IFPRI and EMBRAPA will review findings and recommendations from the Global Food Policy Report and Avanzar2023’s work, discuss the role of scenario analysis and strategic foresight in guiding policies, and present case studies and regional experiences. A panel of experts will discuss the changing landscape of challenges and opportunities in LAC, policy and institutional innovations with the greatest potential for impact, adaptation, and scaling, and how governments, civil society, and the private sector can collaborate more effectively for long-term impact.  

Welcome

  • Manuel Otero, General Director, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

Opening Remarks

Presentation: Global Food Policy Report 2025 (GFPR 2025)

  • Valeria Pineiro, Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), IFPRI
  • Eugenio Diaz Bonilla, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI and Special Advisor, IICA
  • Joaquin Arias, Coordinator of Public Policy Observatory for Agrifood Systems (OPSAa) and Specialist in Agricultural Policy and Sectoral Analysis at CAESPA, IICA

Foresight in Food Systems (IFPRI & EMBRAPA)

Moving Forward 2030

Panel Discussion: Transforming food systems in LAC: from lessons to action

  • Panel Moderator: Valeria Pineiro, Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), IFPRI

Unveiling: IFPRI Recognition on the “Friends of IICA” Wall

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