IFPRI events

AI and Remote Sensing for Agricultural Insights: From Satellite Imagery to Decision Support 

How can advances in AI and remote sensing improve agricultural decision-making, particularly in contexts where timely, accurate data is difficult to obtain? This webinar explores the intersection of machine learning and satellite imagery, focusing on innovations that enhance monitoring, planning, and climate resilience in food systems.  Sibiry Traore will present lessons from his work on […]

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EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2025

The Stockholm Food Forum, convened by EAT, is an invitation only event open to individuals and actors from across food systems, including representatives of Science, Policy, Business and Civil Society. The Theme of this year’s forum is “Engage, Act, Transform” asking the food system community to engage with the knowledge carried by the Commission and […]

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Benchmarking LLMs for Agricultural Advisory: Insights from a Global Community of Practice 

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in agricultural advisory services, there is growing recognition of the need for shared benchmarks to evaluate their performance, equity, and contextual relevance. In response, a global community of practice, supported by the Gates Foundation, has begun developing standards and tools to assess how well LLMs perform across […]

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The Economy-wide Impacts of School Meal Programs: Generating evidence on return on investment

This webinar will explore the latest global evidence on how school feeding programs drive broad-based returns: boosting education, enhancing health outcomes, supporting local agriculture, and strengthening national development. The session will explore new findings from a randomized control trial (RCT), evaluating the longer-term economic impacts of Ghana’s national school feeding program, and ways this methodology […]

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Launching the Ethical AI Methods Toolkit: Reflections from Research and Practice

What does it mean to design ethical AI for agricultural research and development—and how can researchers and practitioners begin to put principles into practice? Following our previous webinar on A Problem-Oriented Approach to AI Ethics in Food Systems, this event marks the launch of the Ethical AI Methods Toolkit: a practical resource developed to support […]

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Fertilizers in a Shifting Global Landscape – Trends, Trade, and Sustainability

Fertilizers—both mineral and organic—are indispensable inputs in modern agriculture. Yet, recent years have seen unprecedented volatility in fertilizer prices, trade flows, and policy responses, reshaping the landscape for producers, traders, and farmers alike. This event will explore the evolving dynamics of the global fertilizer market and its critical role in food security and agricultural sustainability. […]

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Food Policy for a Changing World: Lessons and Priorities for South Asia

Agriculture plays a central role in South Asia, providing livelihoods for millions while shaping trade and food systems across the region. Countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are major producers of rice, wheat, tea, and spices, with agricultural exports fueling economies and global supply chains. Despite these strengths, the sector faces significant challenges, […]

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Mobility in a Fragile World: Evidence to Inform Policy

Migration today reflects a complex interplay of demographic pressures, conflict, poverty, climate change, and economic shocks. Worldwide, one in every seven people is a migrant—that is, someone who changes his or her country of usual residence, irrespective of the reason for migration—or a refugee forced to leave his or her home, often without warning, for […]

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Performance of Uganda UgIFT micro scale irrigation program

IFPRI researchers Kato Edward and Claudia Ringler presented findings from a performance evaluation of a matching grant subsidy program supporting smallholder farmers in acquiring micro-scale irrigation solar equipment in 66 districts of the 146 districts in Uganda. The micro irrigation program funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture had already […]

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Making Sense of AI and Qualitative Research: Conversations on Meaning, Context, and Power

As artificial intelligence tools become more common in research workflows, qualitative researchers face both new opportunities and critical challenges. Can AI support interpretive and nuanced research? What risks might it introduce—and how can researchers remain attentive to nuance, positionality and power?  ​​​This webinar explores the use of AI in qualitative research. Drawing on her experience […]

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The Crawford Fund Annual Conference

This year’s Conference’s theme, Progress and Prospects for Climate-Resilient Agrifood Systems: Actionable Recommendations for Policymakers and Practitioners, captures the urgency and complexity of transforming agrifood systems in response to climate change. Addressing the trade-offs between food production and net-zero targets, pursuing sustainable intensification, and promoting inclusivity are essential for building resilient and equitable agrifood systems. These themes […]

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Nudging People (and Policy) Towards Better Diets and Nutrition: Insights from South Asia

Purnima Menon is the senior director for food and nutrition policy at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). She is also the acting director for transformative strategies. Menon has wide-ranging research experience in evaluating large-scale programs in nutrition, health systems, agriculture, gender, technology and food systems. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, including […]

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