International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

🆕 🗞️ Toward integrated dam assessment: evaluating multi-dimensional impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on #Sudan 🖋️ By Mohammed Basheer, Khalid Siddig, Zuhal Elnour, Mosab Ahmed, and Claudia Ringler. #OpenAccess 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dAjRxk3B CGIAR IFPRI Africa

Despite the existence of many policy and technical instruments (tools) available for groundwater governance, efforts to apply them are often ineffective. In this recent IFPRI blog, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Bryan Bruns suggest it is useful to think of how key actors can use combinations of tools and approaches to improve their knowledge, motivation, and agency to solve groundwater problems. Learn more about the knowledge-motivation-agency framework for groundwater governance here: https://lnkd.in/eQqWG6Cr CGIAR #GroundwaterGovernance

Save the date! 📣 IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series:                                                                         📌 #Trade disruptions and their impacts on agricultural markets: Looking back and ahead                                                                                          📆 January 13, 9:30 AM EST 🤝 Organized by IFPRI and Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS)  🎟️Register here: https://bit.ly/-trade-  Speakers include Monika Tothova (FAO, AMIS), Nancy DeVore (DHF Team LLC), Pat O’Shannassy (Grain Trade Australia), Abdou Karim Fofana (former Senegalese Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs, and Small and Medium Enterprises), and Charlotte Hebebrand (IFPRI).  CGIAR

Global agricultural markets have been in a constant state of uproar over the past 5 years. Trade wars between major trading nations such as China, US and Australia, supply chain disruptions due to the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, crisis in the Middle East and export restrictions have diverted supplies, altered trading patterns, increased price volatility which often makes markets less efficient and more costly.  On January 13th, a seminar by IFPRI and Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) will examine the impacts of recent trade disruptions in agri-food commodities and explore how markets can build resilience to possible future disruptions. 🔍 🎫 Register here: ️ https://bit.ly/-trade- CGIAR #IFPRIPolicySeminar 

🔍 How can we increase demand for fruit and vegetables in #Tanzania? By placing communities at the center of solutions.   In partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and IFPRI, the CGIAR Research Initiative on Fruit & Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH) is collaborating with Tanzanian stakeholders to co-design strategies that make fruit & vegetables more desirable.   Using GAIN’s Human-Centered Design (HCD) Toolkit, a workshop was held in August to guide participants through the process of creating intervention concepts tailored to their communities’ needs.   📽️ Watch the full video for an inside look at the workshop, featuring insights from facilitators and participants: https://lnkd.in/eFAU9ZzZ   🔗 Learn more about FRESH: https://lnkd.in/gwWQaQQM   🔗 Access GAIN’s HCD Toolkit: https://lnkd.in/eNc6sBf7

The “From Fragility to Stability, with CGIAR” podcast series recently launched, bringing together global experts to share strategies and insights on what works to enhance the well-being of people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings, where sustaining resilient food, land, and water systems is especially challenging. Each episode features experts, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders who share insights and co-create actionable strategies for tackling the multifaceted issues of conflict, crises, and fragility. Learn more in this blog by Katrina Kosec: https://lnkd.in/eV88fBF6 CGIAR #FCMinitiative

#NowReading Low Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) among adolescents in Vietnam is due to inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables rather than high consumption of unhealthy foods 🖋️ By Phuong H Nguyen, Gabriela Fretes, Lan M Tran, Rock Zagré, Agnes Le Port, Kim Maasen, Elise Talsma, Mai T Truong, Nga T Hoang, Inge Brouwer, Alan de Brauw, Marie- Ruel, and Jef Leroy. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJtCW7hx CGIAR

HarvestPlus, a program of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), seeks a Business Manager for Budgets, Contracts, and Grants. This position will be based in Washington, D.C. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eN5dNPvs All current IFPRI vacancies: https://lnkd.in/e3T5nBHd CGIAR HarvestPlus

Groundwater is a vital common pool resource that supplies nearly half of all water for domestic use, one-quarter of irrigation water, and one-third of industrial water supply globally. While a variety of institutional “tools” (policy instruments) have been used in efforts to improve groundwater governance, examples of success—such as deliberate and effective action to halt or reverse aquifer depletion, prevent pollution, or protect groundwater-dependent ecosystems— are rare and context-dependent. Research on groundwater governance highlights the potential of promising combinations of approaches and tools. Learn more in this recent blog by Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Bryan Bruns: https://lnkd.in/esMUNear CGIAR

#NowReading Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms 🖋️ By Xinshen Diao, Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan, and Dani Rodrik. 🔗 Read the study here: https://lnkd.in/egumh4mz CGIAR IFPRI Africa