IFPRI events

Navigating the Food Security Nexus: Commodity Prices, Inflation, and Exchange Rates

Join us for a seminar exploring the complex interplay between global food commodity prices and domestic food price inflation, and the implications for food security. Drawing on recent analytical work and market monitoring, the session will examine how international price movements transmit through domestic markets, often exacerbated by exchange rate fluctuations and macroeconomic volatility.  Fluctuations […]

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Tackling extreme poverty and financing for food systems in Africa

Join speakers from IFPRI, IFAD, UNU-WIDER and the World Bank for a high-level seminar exploring two major African priorities – poverty reduction and food systems transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. Speakers will highlight the need to make progress on reducing poverty in fragile and conflict-affected areas across the continent, and the need to examine how most […]

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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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