Blogs

TICAD 9: How IFPRI and Japan leverage advanced technologies, know-how, and institutional innovations to advance African development
Insights from the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit: Leveraging Japanese knowledge to address global health and nutrition challenges
Innovative approaches to solving the problems of food insecurity.

TICAD7 Side Event: How Japan’s know-how can help address Africa’s food and nutrition challenges
Japanese organizations and businesses are working with African partners on a variety of fronts, from surimi factories to tomato production—a discussion.
Events

Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD9)
The Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) is co-hosted by the Government of Japan, the United Nations, UNDP, the World Bank, and the African Union Commission and will take place in Yokohama, Japan, from August 20 to 22, 2025. The TICAD9 conference promotes African ownership and international partnership, bringing together heads of […]

The 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD8)
Virtual Event: September 28, 2022 – 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM JST. 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.

Side Event: How Japan’s know-how can help address food and nutrition challenges in the developing world
Virtual Event: Nov 30, 2021 – 06:00 AM to 07:30 AM EST. This event explores how Japan can lend its expertise to address food and nutrition challenges in the developing world.
News
Sharp energy solutions Europe delivers 900 bifacial solar panels to Egypt for IFPRI’s innovative solar-powered irrigation project (PV Magazine)
“Sharp Energy Solutions Europe has successfully delivered 900 units of the NB-JD550 bifacial solar panel to Egypt as part of a high-impact project introduced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan,” writes PV Magazine (International). “In collaboration with Sharp Energy Solutions Europe, IFPRI’s project […]
Noguchi, IFPRI table interventions to boost Ghana’s school feeding programme (Ghana Web)
Ghana’s school feeding program is set to receive a major boost in the coming years, writes Ghana Web. The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with other major stakeholders introduced the school launch intervention policy in Accra. The project is designed to play an […]
IFPRI and NMIMR collaborate with Japanese specialists to intensify school feeding program (Citi Newsroom)
A Japan-funded project between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) has been launched, writes Citi Newsroom (Ghana). The project “Protecting vulnerable children from exacerbated food insecurity crisis through Japan’s expertise on school lunch: Intervention in Ghana” seeks to protect vulnerable children from situations of escalating food […]




