Tag: IFPRI
Can Changing Our Diets Change Our Climate?
Global: Dr. Fanzo of Johns Hopkins University highlights calls-to-action set out in the Global Nutrition Report 2015.
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IFPRI: Resilience of Smallholders Should Be Key Theme in Sendai
Global: Why should the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction consider smallholder farmers?
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Youth Put Agritech Toolbox To The Test
: We asked four members of the YPARD network from around the world to put the brand new online model, “Agritech Toolbox”, to the test.
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Jon Kurtz: Tough Love – Making Resilience Meaningful
: Our guest author, Jon Kurtz, Director for Research and Learning for Mercy Corps, continues our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. Resilience has an Achilles’ heel: By being all things, it risks being nothing […]
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Prabhu Pingali: Women’s Groups as Conduits Towards Resilient Communities
: Our guest author, Prabhu Pingali, Professor of Applied Economics & Director of the Tata-Cornell Agriculture & Nutrition Initiative at Cornell University, continues our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. Women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are […]
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#2020Resilience Twitter Chat Summary
: To warm up for the global conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” taking place in Ethiopia in a few weeks time, Farming First and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held a lively and informative Twitter Chat on the topic of “resilience”. Our expert panelists from IFPRI and Farming First supporter organisations […]
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Highlights from IFPRI’s 2013 Global Food Policy Report
: This week, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) launched its 2013 Global Food Policy Report, reviewing major trends and developments from the past year, and setting an agenda for action for 2014 and beyond. Whilst post-2015 development discussions are focusing on eliminating extreme poverty by 2030, the report argues that ending hunger and undernutrition […]
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Mark Rosegrant: What is the Role of Agricultural Technologies for Global Food Security?
: A wealth of technologies is now at our disposal for boosting yields of the world’s key staple crops, in order to face the large demands on our food supplies by 2050. But how can we measure which ones will be most effective, when, and where? Which combinations of technologies will have the largest impact? Until […]
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