Ifpri Podcast

Keynote Speaker: Will Martin, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Growth in many developing countries has surged in the last 25 years, driving major shifts in food demand, production, policies, and trade. What do these unprecedented changes mean for our research agenda? This seminar will look at the impacts of rapid developing country growth and convergence with developed countries, and the implications for future research in agricultural economics.

Speaker: Caroline Smith DeWaal, International Food Safety Policy Manager, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition The global food system is the largest sector of the world's economy, and critical for the health of our planet—from land and water resources to plants, animals, and people. Managing this system is a huge responsibility, requiring women and men who are efficient, creative, and caring. Public, private, and not-for-profit managers are recognizing the need to produce nourishing and safe products sustainably.

Perspective: John Ulimwengu, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI The global food system is the largest sector of the world's economy, and critical for the health of our planet—from land and water resources to plants, animals, and people. Managing this system is a huge responsibility, requiring women and men who are efficient, creative, and caring. Public, private, and not-for-profit managers are recognizing the need to produce nourishing and safe products sustainably.

Speaker: Ray Goldberg, Professor of Agriculture and Business, Harvard Business School The global food system is the largest sector of the world's economy, and critical for the health of our planet—from land and water resources to plants, animals, and people. Managing this system is a huge responsibility, requiring women and men who are efficient, creative, and caring. Public, private, and not-for-profit managers are recognizing the need to produce nourishing and safe products sustainably. Dr. Goldberg reflects on his interviews with change-makers of today's food system who provide a panoramic and in-depth look at a revolution in progress.

The PIM Webinar “Helping smallholder farmers manage risks: Innovations to improve agricultural insurance” was conducted on September 19, 2018 by Berber Kramer (IFPRI) and Patrick Ward (Duke Kunshan University). We discussed two research-based innovations in the agricultural insurance: (1) bundling of index-based insurance products with novel climate-smart risk-reducing agricultural technologies and practices, and (2) a new technology that uses smartphone photo data over time to create a new picture-based insurance product. The major advantage of field-based monitoring is that it can be used to reduce basis risk. Findings from research in India and Bangladesh were presented. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/AgInsuranceWebinar

Speaker: Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

Speaker: Letitia Obeng, Global Water Partnership Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

Speaker: Mark Rosegrant, Research Fellow Emeritus, IFPRI Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

Speaker: Steven Schonberger, Global Lead for Water in Agriculture, Water Global Practice, World Bank Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

Speaker: Betsy Otto, Global Director, Water, World Resources Institute Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

Speaker: Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau for Food Security, US Agency for International Development (USAID) Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

Speaker: Meredith Giordano, Principal Researcher and IWMI Representative (USA) Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

Speaker: Claudia Sadoff, Director General, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Secure water supplies are critical to future sustainable economies and societies. Unprecedented human impact is directly degrading resource quality on every continent and, through global warming, threatens vast change in hydrological systems, with impacts on water availability and access in nearly all parts of the world. Those with fewest resources to tackle these changes will inevitably suffer the most. Please join us as we inaugurate IWMI’s US-based office in Washington, DC, with a discussion of our collaborative research to tackle these complex challenges. The seminar will focus on new and promising solutions to ensure a more water-secure future with less risk and greater equity for rapidly growing populations and economies worldwide.

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Yeva Avakyan, Associate Vice President, Gender Equality, Save the Children The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recognizing that individuals’ resilience capacities and vulnerabilities differ significantly and are shaped by their gender, class, caste, ethnicity, marital status, and other forms of social identity. What lessons can we learn from efforts so far that aim to address gender and social barriers to resilience? This seminar will bring a focus on how three organizations are working to study and shift intra-household decision-making dynamics to strengthen resilience. Presentations will draw on research and programmatic learning from IFPRI’s Gender, Climate, and Nutrition (G-CAN) Initiative and new project-level W

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Audrey Anderson, Technical Program Director for the BRIGE Program, Mercy Corps The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recognizing that individuals’ resilience capacities and vulnerabilities differ significantly and are shaped by their gender, class, caste, ethnicity, marital status, and other forms of social identity. What lessons can we learn from efforts so far that aim to address gender and social barriers to resilience? This seminar will bring a focus on how three organizations are working to study and shift intra-household decision-making dynamics to strengthen resilience. Presentations will draw on research and programmatic learning from IFPRI’s Gender, Climate, and Nutrition (G-CAN) Initiative and new project-le

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Greg Seymour, Associate Research Fellow, pro-WEAI and GCAN, IFPRI The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recognizing that individuals’ resilience capacities and vulnerabilities differ significantly and are shaped by their gender, class, caste, ethnicity, marital status, and other forms of social identity. What lessons can we learn from efforts so far that aim to address gender and social barriers to resilience? This seminar will bring a focus on how three organizations are working to study and shift intra-household decision-making dynamics to strengthen resilience. Presentations will draw on research and programmatic learning from IFPRI’s Gender, Climate, and Nutrition (G-CAN) Initiative and new project-level Women’s

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Sophie Theis, Research Analyst and Gender Specialist for GCAN, IFPRI The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recognizing that individuals’ resilience capacities and vulnerabilities differ significantly and are shaped by their gender, class, caste, ethnicity, marital status, and other forms of social identity. What lessons can we learn from efforts so far that aim to address gender and social barriers to resilience? This seminar will bring a focus on how three organizations are working to study and shift intra-household decision-making dynamics to strengthen resilience. Presentations will draw on research and programmatic learning from IFPRI’s Gender, Climate, and Nutrition (G-CAN) Initiative and new project-level Women

IFPRI Policy Seminar : Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Tom Spangler, Director of Resilience and Livelihoods, Save the Children and Consortium Lead for the REAL Award The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recognizing that individuals’ resilience capacities and vulnerabilities differ significantly and are shaped by their gender, class, caste, ethnicity, marital status, and other forms of social identity. What lessons can we learn from efforts so far that aim to address gender and social barriers to resilience? This seminar will bring a focus on how three organizations are working to study and shift intra-household decision-making dynamics to strengthen resilience. Presentations will draw on research and programmatic learning from IFPRI’s Gender, Climate, and Nutrition (G-C

IFPRI Policy Seminar: Addressing gender and social barriers to resilience - 6/27/2018 Speaker: Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations are recognizing that individuals’ resilience capacities and vulnerabilities differ significantly and are shaped by their gender, class, caste, ethnicity, marital status, and other forms of social identity. What lessons can we learn from efforts so far that aim to address gender and social barriers to resilience? This seminar will bring a focus on how three organizations are working to study and shift intra-household decision-making dynamics to strengthen resilience. Presentations will draw on research and programmatic learning from IFPRI’s Gender, Climate, and Nutrition (G-CAN) Initiative and new project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agricul

Speaker: Marcos Sawaya Jank, President, Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance and IFPRI Board member Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward. At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan will share insights from Asian countries, ERS Administrator Mary Bohman will review the experience of the United States, and Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance President Marcos Jank will discuss the role of the food industry in agricultural transformation.