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Implementation Manual View here Interactive Infographics View here Training Videos Video 1: WEAGov conceptual framework (17 min)Goal: Viewer should understand why WEAGov exists, what the 3×3 framework is, and how to apply it analytically to food policy. Watch Video Video 2: Implementing WEAGov tool (24 min)Goal: Viewer understands the full 6 step methodology of implementing a […]

Virtual Event: September 21, 2023 – 7:45 AM- 9:15 AM EDT. This second seminar of the CGIAR Policy Seminar Series on Strengthening Food Systems examines past and current ecosystem service payment schemes targeted at smallholders, evaluates their effectiveness, and impacts, and explores how such schemes could be taken forward in order to help build greater resilience within food systems.

Abdullah Al Mamun (IFPRI) spoke with NPR about the Indian export policies and what prompted the disruption in rice crops over the past year.

Nikkei (Japan) quotes IFPRI’s Director of Communications and Public Affairs Charlotte Hebebrand who noted, “Russia is clearly concerned about fertilizer exports. With rising fertilizer prices and ongoing conflict in Ukraine, securing revenue through exports has become even more crucial.” “According to analysis by IFPRI, the export volumes of urea fertilizer and diammonium phosphate (DAP) from […]

Event: September 5, 2023 – 3:00 AM to September 8, 2023 – 7:30 AM EDT. IFPRI is participating in Africa’s Food Systems Forum (AGRF) 2023 Summit.

Event: August 24, 2023 – 5:30 AM- 7:00 AM EDT. IFPRI is co-hosting the release of the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ghana under the Nexus Project in partnership with the Ghana Statistical Service and the Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research.

Globally, agriculture is confronted with an era of great transformation fueled by substantial challenges such as climate change, carbon neutrality and digital transformation. MAFRA is making every effort to adapt to such changes: making agriculture leap forward as the future growth industry; turning rural areas into comfortable residences, workplaces and refreshing retreats; supporting farmers to […]

Developing the tools of resource management.

IRC mentions IFPRI in an article on its anniversary featuring organization’s history, achievements, and partnerships over the past 90 years.   “Over the last 90 years, the IRC has generated or partnered in the creation of more impact research in conflict zones than any other organization.”  “Google supported the IRC’s 2021 Anticipatory Action project in Nigeria, which […]

A promising approach to micronutrient deficiencies.

Event: September 20, 2023 – 8:30 AM to September 22, 2023 – 6:10 PM CEST. IFPRI is participating and will be featured in this years’ annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development (TROPENTAG).

Potential limits of in-person interviews.

Potential limits of in-person interviews.

“The world is facing unprecedented threats to food security, following the Kremlin’s decision to withdraw from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the onset of El Niño, writes ABC Radio News, Australia.  Guest, senior research fellow Joseph Glauber at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) discusses the subject in a radio interview.  Listen here.    […]

In a follow-up to an earlier Bloomberg story on India’s rice ban, the Bloomberg newsletter discusses “how extreme weather and food protectionism are combining to make rice — vital to the diets of billions in Asia and Africa — much more expensive.   That’s bad news for some of the world’s most disadvantaged. The staple makes up as […]

Organized by IFPRI, this CGIAR policy seminar series examines the evidence base for resilience-building priorities and approaches. The series, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), will run through June 2024, when the German government will mark 50 years of support to CGIAR.

“A surge in rice prices to the highest level in almost 15 years is renewing fears that food costs are going to get a lot more expensive for the world’s poorest people,” writes Bloomberg (reposted by Yahoo Finance).  “Higher rice prices will contribute to food inflation, particularly for poor households in the major rice consuming […]