The latest issue of the #IFPRIInsights #newsletter is out, featuring: 🎉 IFPRI's 50th Anniversary 🆕 CGIAR Research Portfolio 📈 ️ Food Security Simulator 🎫 Events, Blogs & more: ifpri.org/newsletter/ifp… CGIAR IFPRI_Africa IFPRI South Asia IFPRI-Bangladesh @IFPRI_Mena IFPRI LAC

Last week I had the pleasure of representing IFPRI and CGIAR at the #GFFA in Berlin, Germany. I participated in several exciting events on the challenges and opportunities around farming a sustainable bioeconomy. Learn more: gffa-berlin.de/en/gffa-homepa… #gffa2025 #bioeconomy

Today is the United Nations #InternationalDayofEducation. Read the thread below for recent IFPRI blogs, research and events on this topic, including school calendars, impacts of #cash transfers on education, and #school meal programs: CGIAR 🧵👇

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. To celebrate this milestone, we will be sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving #foodsystems. Here goes the first! 🚀 #IFPRI50 #FoodSecurity #Research

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. To celebrate this milestone, we will be sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving #foodsystems. Today, we feature the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade, or IMPACT 🌍

Have you seen our 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI' on LinkedIn yet? ✍️ Sign up to get alerts about the weekly selections of recent peer-reviewed publications from IFPRI researchers! 📰 🔗 on.cgiar.org/3Dinkpm CGIAR

Today is International Women's Day. Why do we at IFPRI celebrate it? Read ⏬ 🔗 on.cgiar.org/4kz09b9 #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay @cgiar UN Women

In 2025, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. To mark this milestone, throughout this year, we will be sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving food systems. Today, we feature the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) 🌍

Our latest “Faces of IFPRI” video features Agnes Quisumbing Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, who reflects on 30 years of policy research based on extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. 🌱 🌏 📽️ Watch the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=dDxRKU… CGIAR #IFPRI50

IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen will participate in the inaugural CGIAR Science Week in Nairobi, Kenya. ♻️🌾 Learn more about #CGIARScienceWeek and explore how we can create a sustainable and food-secure future: on.cgiar.org/49e0KZs #WithScienceWeCan

📢 Tomorrow at #CGIARScienceWeek: 📍 A New Chapter for CAADP: The Kampala CAADP Declaration and CAADP Strategy and Action Plan, 2026-2035 🗓️ April 10, 12:30-2:30pm EAT 🗨️ IFPRI Speakers include Johan Swinnen, Steven Were Omamo, and Samuel Benin 🔗 on.cgiar.org/3EeuawF CGIAR

I had the pleasure of participating in the “Ending Hunger and Malnutrition: Keeping our Eyes on the Road” policy seminar, co-organized by IFPRI and the World Bank. Thank you to the panelists for an engaging discussion on how ensure a food secure world. bit.ly/ending_hunger

It was great to meet with the WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala alongside my IFPRI colleagues JoeGlauber--IFPRI | @jwglauber.bsky.social and Ruth Hill this week to discuss the work IFPRI is doing on agricultural trade negotiations with the @WTO. I look forward to many more productive discussions.

This week, IFPRI launched #GFPR2025, a reflection on five decades of food policy evolution and a call to action for a research agenda that meets the demands of the next generation: 📷 ifpri.org/event/2025-glo… 💻 ifpri.org/global-food-po… 📘 hdl.handle.net/10568/174108 CGIAR #IFPRI50

📚In this 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI', we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy 📰 which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use 🌱, soil health management 🌍, and economic shocks 📉 in various agricultural systems: on.cgiar.org/45Pnz7b

Enjoyed an engaging trip to Beijing last week for the joint launch of #GFPR2025 and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences flagship report. It was also a pleasure to meet with the IFPRI Beijing office, former DG Shenggen Fan, and leaders of the DRC, CAU, and IAED.

Today, we're launching a new blog series, "Financing Food Systems Transformation," which will explore the scale of financing needed to make food systems healthier, more equitable, and sustainable. 🔎 In this first post, Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, Geeta Sethi & Johan Swinnen lay out key funding

Last week I joined the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (#FFD4) in Seville to discuss financing food systems transformation. We must scale innovative finance and repurpose public agricultural support to deliver real impact. on.cgiar.org/3G3lvxX CGIAR