AGRODEP Blog

Dear colleagues,  The current world health crisis further highlights the importance of accurate, near-real-time monitoring of food crisis risk factors. A number of research efforts on effective monitoring systems exist around the world, including the use of satellite data to monitor production-related information and climate change-driven weather events and various methods to monitor food price volatility. We invite you to join IFPRI's…

Le système régional d’analyse stratégique et de gestion des connaissances (ReSAKSS) est heureux de…

The Regional Strategic Analysis Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is happy to  invite you to take part in the information sharing webinar about the ReSAKSS Data Challenge The webinar will be held online and in English on: Wednesday,  April 15th, 3:00 MP / 5:00 PM GMT…

AGTER and the International Land Coalition invite members of civil society and farmers’ organizations, development professionals, researchers, journalists, students and all those interested to participate in an online course to analyze the phenomenon of land grabbing around the world, understand its nature and work together to build…

We have an exciting opportunity available through the STAARS+ Fellows program! The STAAARS+ Fellows program, under the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI), is a collaboration between Cornell University, Michigan State University (MSU), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to advance rigorous, policy-oriented food security research on topics of inclusive…

Call for applications for a six-months consultancy      On January 2020, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) initiates in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) a project on “Intra-Regional Trade in the Association of South-East Asia Nations (ASEAN): An Assessment of the Impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs)”.     The project is aimed at providing…

Call for applications for a six-months consultancy      On January 2020, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) initiates in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) a project on “Intra-Regional Trade in the Association of South-East Asia Nations (ASEAN): An Assessment of the Impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs)”.     The project is aimed at providing…

The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program, a multi-institution collaboration managed by Cornell University with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), announces a call for concept proposals from early-career African researchers seeking to become STAARS fellows in 2020 to advance in-depth, rigorous, policy-oriented research on the causal…

  Join the Food Security Portal (FSP), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in the launch of the global foresight tool Impacts of Alternative Investment Scenarios. The tool was recently developed by IFPRI’s IMPACT model team and the FSP. The Global Foresight tool provides researchers and policymakers with a flexible way to…

An FAO vacancy announcement for a FIRST Policy Officer (consultancy) in Tanzania is online!  Food Security and Nutrition Policy Specialist (FIRST Programme) – 1802869 https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=1902869&tz=GMT%2B01%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FBerlin The current closing date for receiving applications is 16 December 2019.    Organizational Setting   Food and Nutrition Security…