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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI is a CGIAR research center (@cgiar.org). www.ifpri.org
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📢TMRW @ 9:30 AM EST

📌 Promoting Resilience through Improved Varieties, Quality Seed, and Better Seed Systems: Lessons from #Nigeria

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@cgiar.org @oxfamnovib.bsky.social @bioversityciat.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Don’t miss this panel tomorrow at the 2026 Future of Food Summit in London:

📌 Closing Panel: How to build resilience in the food chain?

📆 February 10, 17:45 – 18:15 (Europe/London)

🗨️ Speakers include @jo-swinnen.bsky.social, IFPRI Director General

🖱️https://on.cgiar.org/3LTppfZ

@cgiar.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
A new IFPRI study published in Economic Modelling introduces a Systematic Risk Profiling (SRP) framework to better understand how developing economies are affected by multiple, simultaneous shocks—from global commodity price swings to climate-driven yield volatility and capital flow disruptions.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
📢 There is still time to register for this #webinar in the AI for Food Systems Research series: 

📌 From Lab to Field: Designing and Testing Agricultural LLMs

📆 February 12, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EST

🎫 https://on.cgiar.org/3Msen1g

@cgiar.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
3️⃣ days until this #IFPRIPolicySeminar:

📌 Promoting Resilience through Improved Varieties, Quality Seed, and Better Seed Systems: Lessons from #Nigeria

🗓️Feb 11 from 9:30 to 11:00AM EST

📍Online

Register here: bit.ly/SeedNG

@cgiar.org
February 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
🆕 #Blog: When caseloads matter: Community health workers, home visits, and child survival in Mali

🖊️ By @jealleniv.bsky.social.

🖱️Read more here: https://on.cgiar.org/4r2alvD

@cgiar.org
When caseloads matter: Community health workers, home visits, and child survival in Mali
What works best when resources are stretched?
on.cgiar.org
February 7, 2026 at 5:10 PM
🔍 How did Denmark achieve consensus on green policy when other governments have struggled to do so?

Learn more in this post in the 🆕 IFPRI blog series “Political Economy in Practice: Lessons from food system reforms around the world.”
🖊️ By @danielleresnick.bsky.social: https://on.cgiar.org/4aBxcaD
Making climate policy action a political reality: Lessons from Denmark's Green Agreement
Overcoming obstacles to consensus.
on.cgiar.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
📢 Save the date!  

📌 From Lab to Field: Designing and Testing Agricultural LLMs

📆 February 12, 9:30 – 10:30 am EST

🎫 https://on.cgiar.org/3Msen1g

@cgiar.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
There’s still time to join this upcoming #IFPRIPolicySeminar!

📌 Promoting Resilience through Improved Varieties, Quality Seed, and Better Seed Systems: Lessons from #Nigeria

🗓️Feb 11 from 9:30 to 11:00AM EST

📍Online

🎟️ bit.ly/SeedNG

@cgiar.org @bioversityciat.bsky.social @oxfamnovib.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
IFPRI’s Director General @jo-swinnen.bsky.social will participate in the upcoming 2026 Future of Food Summit in London on February 10, 2026:

📌 Closing Panel: How to build resilience in the food chain?

⏰ 17:45 – 18:15 (Europe/London)

🖱️ Learn more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3LTppfZ

@cgiar.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
🌧️ This 🆕 study investigates the compounded effects of armed conflicts and climate-induced disruptions on agricultural input use in Ethiopia, a country experiencing significant fragility due to both factors: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70083

@cgiar.org
February 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
🤝IFPRI and @cimmyt.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deepen collaboration on strategic #research and policy initiatives aimed at addressing today’s complex food security challenges.

Read more in our joint #pressrelease ➡️ https://on.cgiar.org/49ZR9J2

@cgiar.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Don’t miss this upcoming #IFPRIPolicySeminar: 📢 On Feb 11, speakers will discuss how improved seed can help farmers improve productivity & resilience in #Nigeria.

Register here👉 bit.ly/SeedNG

@cgiar.org

February 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
📚 The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn!

🖱️ Read more here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/peer-reviewed-publications-from-ifpri-researchers-ifpri-p2vte

@cgiar.org
Peer-reviewed publications from IFPRI researchers
This week's featured articles spotlight new research that projects future mortality risks from high‑tide flooding among older adults in U.S.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:10 PM
🆕 #Blog 50th Anniversary Impact Assessment Report: Highlights of IFPRI’s policy impact

🖋️ By Peter Hazell, Frank Place, and Maria DiGiovanni.

🖱️ Read more here: https://on.cgiar.org/45O59mF

@cgiar.org
50th Anniversary Impact Assessment Report: Highlights of IFPRI's policy impact
How research has helped to guide food systems strategies.
on.cgiar.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM
How do smallholder farmers make decisions when the weather is increasingly unpredictable? 🌦️

Learn more in this blog by Joseline Kiogora, Amanda Grossi, @berberkramer.bsky.social, and @carlytrachtman.bsky.social: https://on.cgiar.org/4qR94Yb

@cgiar.org
From games to gains: How climate forecasts help farmers shape the future
Timely, trusted, and accessible climate information can transform how farmers manage risk, especially when women and men are equally empowered to use it. In Zambia, this vision is being advanced through innovative methods such as gamification, which all...
on.cgiar.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
#ICYMI Have you watched the most recent webinar in IFPRI’s AI for Food Systems Research series?

📌 From Foundations to Field: Lessons from Microsoft and Reply’s Work in Agriculture

📺 Watch the recording here: https://on.cgiar.org/4bkDz3Q

@cgiar.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:35 PM
🔍 Did you miss this #webinar?

📌 Evidence-Informed Impact: Unpacking the Untapped Potential of the School Feeding Labor Force

🤝 Co-organized by IFPRI and @gcnf.org

📺 Watch the recording here: https://on.cgiar.org/49YBbxE

@cgiar.org

February 1, 2026 at 4:04 PM
#NowReading 🌧️Armed conflict and climate-induced weather disruptions in agricultural input use: Evidence from Ethiopia

🖊️ By Hailemariam Ayalew, Guush Berhane, Meseret Wondale, and Clemens Breisinger.

🖱️Read the study here: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70083

@cgiar.org
January 31, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Save the date! February 11⏰9:30AM EST

📌#IFPRIPolicySeminar: Promoting Resilience through Improved Varieties, Quality Seed, and Better Seed Systems: Lessons from Nigeria

🤝Part of the Fragility to Stability Seminar Series

📍In-person or online

🎟️ Register here: https://bit.ly/SeedNG

@cgiar.org
January 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by International Food Policy Research Institute
Last week I attended the #WorldEconomicForum in #Davos where I engaged with public & private sector leaders on food systems and resilience. I joined a COP16 Presidency UNCCD panel, highlighting how data & research inform policy around drought, agricultural resilience, and food systems.

@cgiar.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:23 PM
📣 Starting soon - don't miss this #webinar in the AI for Food Systems Research series:  

📌 From Foundations to Field: Lessons from Microsoft and Reply’s Work in Agriculture

📆 January 29, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EST

🎫 Register here: https://on.cgiar.org/4bkDz3Q

@cgiar.org
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
📣Starting now: 

📌 Evidence-Informed Impact: Unpacking the Untapped Potential of the School Feeding Labor Force

🤝 Co-organized by IFPRI and the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF)

🎟️ Learn more here: https://on.cgiar.org/49YBbxE
  
@cgiar.org @gcnf.org
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM