IFPRI is pleased to be contributing evidence and knowledge from our research across agrifood systems to the UN Food Systems Summit and actions following the conclusion of Summit proceedings. Food systems are central to meeting all of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and this groundbreaking event sets the course for the transformations necessary to ensure our food systems provide secure livelihoods for all people and contribute to the health of our natural environment.
In preparation for the event, IFPRI researchers have contributed to the summit’s Action Tracks, partnering with the Summit’s independent Scientific Group and led work on several of the cross-cutting Levers of Change. IFPRI researchers are also joining several of the coalitions for supporting actions to fulfill commitments to food systems transformation made at the Summit.
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SCIENTIFIC GROUP
IFPRI and the Scientific Group of the United Nations Food Systems Summit are collaborating on research related to the following topics for the Summit: women in food systems; the future of small farms; food systems innovations and modern agricultural technologies; financing the FSS agenda; and modelling food systems. The Scientific Group is an independent and diverse group of leading researchers and scientists from around the world.
Briefs by IFPRI authors
Ending Hunger by 2030 – policy actions and costs
by Joachim von Braun, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Maximo Torero Cullen, David Laborde, Carin Smaller (March 4, 2021; reprint from Oct.13, 2020) [ Download ]A Review of Evidence on Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and Food Systems
by Jemimah Njuki, et.al. (May 11, 2021) [ Download ]How could Science-Policy Interfaces boost Food Systems Transformation?
by Etienne Hainzelin, Patrick Caron, Frank Place, Arlène Alpha, Sandrine Dury, Ruben Echeverria, Amanda Harding (May 14, 2021) [ Download ]Modelling Food Systems (forthcoming)
by David Laborde, et.al.Financing SGD2 and Ending Hunger
by Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla (May 11, 2021) [ Download ]Food Systems Innovations and Digital Technologies to Foster Agricultural Productivity Growth and Rural Transformation
by Rui Benfica, et.al. (May, 2021) [ Download ]The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation
by Xinshen Diao, et.al. (April, 2021) [ Download ]Water for Food Systems and Nutrition
by Claudia Ringler, et.al. (May, 2021) [ Download ]
Check here for other Scientific Group peer-reviewed reports and briefs.
CROSS-CUTTING LEVERS OF CHANGE
Director General, IFPRI
Jo Swinnen participates in the Finance Lever. The custodian of the Finance Lever is the World Bank, supported by IFPRI and the Food & Land Use Coalition.
The FSS Finance Lever will focus on (i) repurposing finance to support better food systems (ii) reducing finance that is destroying/degrading food systems (iii) optimising finance to mobilise investment and increase access and (iv) scaling public and private finance flowing to better food.
Jemimah Njuki is the Custodian of the Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Change Lever of the Summit.
She has also been named a Food Systems Champion.
Director, Africa Regional office
ACTION TRACKS
Deputy Division Director, Africa Regional Office
Sam Benin is co-leading the Working Group on Zero Hunger under Action Track 1 (AT1): Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all.
Namukolo Covic is part of the Leadership Team of Action Track 2 and represented the action track in developing the Organizing Framework for the first wave of Game Changing solutions. She has been invited to co-lead Action Area 1.2 “Improve Access to Nutritious Food”, together with Corinna Hawkes. She is also part of the Core Technical Team the Government of Ethiopia put together to provide guidance to the UNFSS process and led the development of a background paper informing that process.
Read her post on tackling malnutrition in Africa with evidence-based, context-specific solutions.
Senior Research Coordinator
Senior Research Fellow
Jef Leroy is contributing to Action Track 2, as a member of the leadership team for workstream 1 on the food environment.
Hazel Malapit is the gender lead for Action Track 1, providing inputs on the gender dimensions of the Game-Changing Solutions proposed and coordinating with the Gender Lever team to ensure key gender themes are reflected in those solutions.
Senior Research Coordinator
Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions Division
Rob Vos is contributing to Action Track 2, as a member of the leadership team of workstream 3 on Reducing Food Loss and Waste.
- Channing Arndt, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division
- Rui Benfica, Senior Research Fellow
- Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Scientist
- Judy Chambers, Director, Program for Biosafety Systems
- Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator
- Xinshen Diao, Deputy Division Director, Development Strategy and Governance Division
- Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Head, Latin American and Caribbean Program
- Jawoo Koo, Senior Research Fellow
- David Laborde, Senior Research Fellow
- Jef Leroy, Senior Research Fellow
- Simrin Makhija, Senior Research Analyst
- Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator
- Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow
- Bart Minten, Senior Research Fellow
- Alejandro Nin Pratt, Senior Research Fellow
- Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow
- Gert-Jan Stads, Senior Program Manager
- Hiroyuki Takeshima, Senior Research Fellow
- James Thurlow, Senior Research Fellow
- Rob Vos, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions Division
COALITIONS
To support effective action for transforming food systems following the UNFSS, IFPRI/CGIAR has joined the following coalitions as a knowledge partner.
Zero Hunger Healthy Diets - as part of the new CGIAR research initiative Food Systems Transformation for Sustainable Healthy Diets (SHiFT) Universal School Meals Food is Never Waste Sustainable Productivity Growth for Food Security and Resource Conservation Just Rural Transition to Sustainable Food and Agriculture Making Food Systems Work for Women and Girls Climate Resilient Development Pathways - as part of the new CGIAR research initiative NEXUS Gains: Realizing Multiple Benefits Across Water-Energy-Food-Environment System Conflict and Hunger/HDP Nexus
journal article | 2019 by Thomas Reardon, Ruben Echeverria, Julio Berdegué, Bart Minten, Lenis Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, David Tschirley, David Zilbermandiscussion paper | 2019 by Emily Schmidt, Rachel Gilbert, Brian Holtemeyer, Gracie Rosenbach, Todd Bensonreport | 2019 by Joshua Goldstein, Heather Tallis, Natalia Linou, Roy Small, Claudia Ringler
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