IFPRI events

2025 Gender Conference: Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems

Join the CGIAR Accelerator Gender Equality & Inclusion, in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Western Cape Government, in Cape Town for the 2025 Gender Conference, a pivotal gathering at the intersection of gender equality and sustainable development. This year’s theme, “Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems,” highlights the urgent need […]

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What’s on the Menu? Collecting high-quality data to inform school menu decision-making

The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) – the coexistence of undernutrition and overweight/obesity – poses a critical global health challenge, particularly for children and adolescents. School meal programs offer an opportunity to address the DBM by providing nutritious meals that support growth, development, and lifelong health. However, limited school meal quality data hinders effective, nutritionally-tailored […]

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Tools for Action: Measuring food environments and diets to drive policy in LMICs

How can better measurement drive better food and nutrition policies? In this interactive webinar, participants will gain an overview of the Food Environment Toolbox and Urban Food Environments and Diets (UFED) tool, learning how these innovative resources can help fill critical data gaps, integrate food environment and dietary indicators, and support evidence-based decision-making. The session will highlight: Join […]

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Informing Crisis Response in Sudan

Also streaming on Please type your questions into the chat box with name, affiliation, and country. The event video, presenter slides, and podcast will be available in the days following the event. The recent resurgence of armed conflicts in Africa is increasing the need and urgency for investments in shock-responsive humanitarian and social assistance programs. […]

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Transformative and scalable experiences for a new generation of public policies for agrifood systems

Promote a space for reflection and regional exchange aimed at identifying transformative and scalable experiences of agri-food public policies, with emphasis on those that generate public goods, articulate multiple actors and levels of government, incorporate innovative mechanisms and recognize the necessary enabling conditions for their implementation and sustainability. This dialogue prioritizes: October 8, 2025 Special […]

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School meal programs and regenerative agriculture: Generating evidence on sustainability tradeoffs

Can school meals serve both children and the planet? This webinar will explore how school meal programs intersect with regenerative agriculture, unpacking the environmental, economic, and social tradeoffs of scaling sustainable feeding models. Drawing on global initiatives, including Brazil’s national school feeding program, this session will highlight existing evidence and persistent gaps on the sustainability […]

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80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and Climate Week 2025

The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly – under the theme Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights – comes at a pivotal moment to renew global commitment to multilateralism, solidarity and shared action for people and planet. This year’s high-level week highlights the urgency of delivering on […]

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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture for Healthy Diets in Latin America and Caribbean

Join us in this seminar organized by the Inter-American Development Bank that will address the relevance of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in transforming agrifood systems and contributing to the reduction of nutritional deficiencies in the population of Latin America and the Caribbean. The event will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish. Keynote Speaker:

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The EU Deforestation Regulation: Policy Implications and Research Frontiers

Also streaming on Please type your questions into the chat box with name, affiliation, and country. The event video, presenter slides, and podcast will be available in the days following the event. In June 2023, the European Union (EU) adopted its Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR)—a landmark policy designed to reduce global deforestation and forest […]

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Optimizing school food environments: Integrating new food and nutrient standards with aspects of affordability, cultural acceptability and environmental sustainability

School food environments encompass every way children encounter food in or around school- from the meals on their plates and the messages on classroom walls to the snacks sold at kiosks and ads for sugary drinks just outside school gates. A truly healthy environment maximizes exposure to nutritious options and positive eating cues. Balancing nutritional […]

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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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