IFPRI events

Two Sides of the Data Governance Coin: AI Innovation and Regulation for Producers and Users 

Responsible AI and data governance are often framed as constraints on innovation—but what if they are essential to it? This webinar explores why ethical, well-regulated systems are not at odds with innovation, but rather foundational to its legitimacy, sustainability, and impact.  Bringing together perspectives from both technology producers and users, this session examines how policy, design, and governance […]

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From Lab to Field: Designing and Testing Agricultural LLMs

As interest in large language models (LLMs) for agricultural advisory grows, developers face two critical questions: How should these tools be built to meet the specific needs of farmers? and How should they be tested?  This webinar brings together two teams building agricultural LLMs through different but complementary approaches—offering a behind-the-scenes look at how AI systems are co-designed, refined, and validated with domain experts, farmers and extensionists.  […]

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Better Diets & Nutrition Webinar Series Session 2: Demand Creation for Fruits and Vegetables

Healthy diets are essential for promoting well-being and preventing nutrient deficiencies and diet-related diseases. Fruits and vegetables play a critical role by providing essential vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, and bioactive compounds, while generally having a lower environmental footprint than many other foods. Despite their importance, global fruit and vegetable consumption remains well below the World […]

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18th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA)

IFPRI’s Johan Swinnen and Claudia Ringler are participating in the 18th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). The GFFA is an international conference that addresses key issues for the future of global agriculture and food policy and is held annually in Berlin, Germany during the International Green Week (IGW). The GFFA is organized by […]

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Advancing Poverty Graduation in Fragile Contexts: A New Agenda for Research and Policy

Multifaceted livelihoods interventions that target households in extreme poverty are extremely effective in reducing extreme poverty, with consistent gains in income, consumption, savings, and psychosocial well-being. These interventions, often called graduation models, have been widely evaluated, but most evidence comes from stable rural settings. In fragile and conflict-affected environments where poverty is increasingly concentrated, household-level […]

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Reducing Food Loss and Waste: A Food Systems Perspective

Reducing food loss and waste is essential for building more efficient value chains, lowering the climate footprint of agri‑food systems, and improving farmer livelihoods. This seminar brings together new insights and emerging evidence on how to tackle this challenge from multiple angles. In the first segment, Jocelyn Boiteau and Prabhu Pingali will share key findings from […]

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From Foundations to Field: Lessons from Microsoft and Reply’s Work in Agriculture

As large language models (LLMs) and generative AI systems evolve, understanding how these technologies work—and what they can realistically achieve—has become essential for researchers and practitioners alike. Over the past year, many of us have had the chance to experiment with these systems in a “sandbox” environment. Today, we move from experimentation to brass tack with a […]

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Confronting the Crisis of Child Wasting: Translating Evidence into Action and Policy

The livestream will be available on this page on January 27, 2026 at 11:00am – 1:00pm CET / 5:00am – 7:00am EST. Please type your questions into the chat box for the Q&A session. Hosted by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), this exchange will bring together global and country partners, technical experts and […]

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Rooted in Biodiversity: Transforming Agriculture through Nature-Positive Solutions

Agriculture is both a major driver of biodiversity loss and a crucial part of the solution. This session will present research and evidence underpinning the forthcoming World Bank report Rooted: Agriculture Rooted in Biodiversity, which identifies strategies and investment pathways to harness biodiversity for resilient agricultural systems. By showcasing sustainable practice bundles, the economics of […]

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Evidence-Informed Impact: Unpacking the Untapped Potential of the School Feeding Labor Force

School meal programs can be powerful engines for job creation and local economic development. Many models intentionally prioritize employment for groups that face systemic barriers to entering the labor market, such as women, youth and people with disabilities. Yet despite their potential, there remains a significant evidence gap around how different program designs impact employment […]

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Integrating Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition in National Agricultural Surveys: Country Experiences, Perspective and the Path Forward

Agrifood systems are essential to women’s livelihoods globally, yet their contributions often remain underrecognized. Women are disproportionately concentrated in informal, low-skilled, and labor-intensive roles and face limited access to resources and exclusion from key decision-making processes. To address these gaps, new tools have emerged to better assess women’s empowerment. Building on the Women’s Empowerment in […]

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Delivering for Nutrition in South Asia: Towards Impact at Scale

South Asia continues to face an enduring burden of malnutrition in all its forms—undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and a steady increase in overweight and obesity and non-communicable diseases. Over 1 billion people in South Asia cannot afford a healthy diet. While many promising solutions have emerged, translating them into sustained, large-scale impact remains a challenge. This […]

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Increasing effectiveness of school meals in humanitarian settings: Situation & Context Analysis

In 2024, more than 473 million children — nearly one in six worldwide — lived in areas affected by conflict, exposing them to heightened risks of disrupted education, malnutrition, and loss of essential services. According to data from the Global Survey of School Meal Programs , 17% of programs globally were impacted by conflict in […]

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Launch of the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) 2025

AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in partnership with AGRA, are convening a hybrid launch event to unveil and discuss the findings of the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) 2025. This annual publication monitors and highlights trends in African agrifood trade, including intra-African trade, the continent’s participation in global trade, insights into […]

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Trading the Crosswinds: Macroeconomic Outlook, Trade Policy Uncertainty, and Agricultural Commodity Markets

Prospects for global grain and oilseed production remain broadly favorable, but the agricultural trade environment continues to face significant uncertainties. Trade policy developments—including the potential for retaliatory measures—are reshaping traditional trade flows and creating challenges for market participants. These shifts are occurring alongside broader macroeconomic factors such as currency movements, rising energy prices, and demand […]

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The Impact of Global Change on Food Security in 2050: Assessing the Risks Through the Lens of Food Trade

Trade is crucial to achieving food security. The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability (Jameel Index) is a valuable new tool to guide policy and investment decisions that support sustainable international development and food security through food trade. The Index provides food trade vulnerability scores for more than 180 countries by synthesizing global indicators […]

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The Economy-wide Impacts of School Meal Programs in Ghana and Malawi

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 as a follow-up to episode 1 of this series. The session will showcase research from Malawi and Ghana, evaluating the economy-wide impacts of both nation’s national school […]

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IFPRI @ 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30)

IFPRI is pleased to participate in the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) being held in Belém, Brazil from November 10 to November 21, 2025. COP30 builds on progress of previous COPs to turn the ambitions of the Paris Agreement into reality. Hosted in the Amazonian city of Belém, the topics of […]

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Shaping Food Policy in a Changing World: Research Priorities for Greater Impact

In today’s fast-changing world and evolving food systems, the need for evidence-based food policy has never been more urgent – demanding research that is timely, inclusive, and tailored to context. Reliable data and rigorous analysis are essential, but research must also evolve – and become more timely, more relevant, and more inclusive of diverse voices […]

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Global Climate-Smart Agriculture Conference

Achieving the goals of climate smart agriculture (CSA)—increased profitability, adaptation, and mitigation—and scaling climate action require explicit consideration of gender and other intersectional identities. Failing to design climate actions to include and benefit women and other vulnerable groups misses opportunities to build resilience capacities, which would enable these groups to contribute to more sustainable and […]

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