GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
2023 Global Food Policy Report: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses
Hybrid Global Launch Event
APR 13, 2023 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM EDT

Economic crises, epidemics, conflicts, and extreme weather events can wreak havoc on food systems, in particular when several of these shocks overlap. Food system shocks risk increasing food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition, and can disrupt livelihoods, increase poverty, and further diminish prospects for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Governments and the international community, including research organizations such as IFPRI, support efforts to better predict, monitor, and respond to crises as they arise, but these efforts often are not sustained when the crises end. Addressing the “new normal” of possibly more frequent and compounding crises requires rethinking food crisis responses to drive renewed and broader efforts to prevent, mitigate, and recover from crises in ways that build long-term resilience.

Please join us for the launch of IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Report, which explores evidence-based policy and governance solutions that can provide better early warning and rapid response, increase resilience of food systems, protect the livelihoods of women and marginal groups and ensure their inclusion in crisis response, and address the impacts of conflict and migration. Following a presentation of the report’s key findings and recommendations, a distinguished panel of experts will address how best to align crisis response with resilience building for greater impact.

Introduction
Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI

High level overview of GFPR findings and recommendations
Katrina Kosec, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Rapid Fire Presentations
Early Warning Systems: Arif Husain, Chief Economist / Friederike Greb, Economist, World Food Programme (WFP)
Anticipatory Action: Sikandra Kurdi, Research Fellow, IFPRI
Social Protection: Kalle Hirvonen, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Forced Migration: Manuel Hernandez, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Panel Discussion
US Perspectives on Crisis Response: Dina Esposito, USAID Assistant to the Administrator for Resilience and Food Security, U.S. Feed the Future Deputy Coordinator for Development, and Global Food Crisis Response Coordinator
Examining the Role of the G20 in Global Food Crisis Response Coordination: Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research, and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa: Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson and Acting Managing Director, AKADEMIYA2063

Moderator
Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI

Links:  Science And Innovations For Food Systems Transformation Book:  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5

More about this seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/global-launch-event-2023-global-food-policy-report-rethinking-food-crisis-responses

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2023 Global Food Policy Report: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses

Introductory Remarks by Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Coordinator, Embrapa, Labex-USA
 
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.

IFPRI Special Event:  Transforming Agriculture - 5/15/2018 - GMartha

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.

IFPRI Special Event:  Transforming Agriculture - 5/15/2018  - M.Jank

What happens when a child is malnourished? Can such a child ever “catch up” later in life? Why does urbanization and obesity seem to go hand in hand—and what does this mean for food production? We’ll explore big picture food system questions today on the Leading Voices in Food with our guest Dr. Shenggen Fan.

The Leading Voices in Food

Shenggen Fan on Hunger, Climate Change and the Hope of Innovation

Speaker: William A. Masters, Professor, Tufts University

Interventions and innovation can lower the price of individual foods, but healthy eating depends on access to a mix of foods from diverse sources. How has the overall cost of meeting dietary needs changed over time worldwide, and in Africa and South Asia specifically? What determines the cost of a healthy diet? And how does affordability affect dietary intake and health status in different locales?

To answer these questions, Changing Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa and South Asia (CANDASA) (https://sites.tufts.edu/candasa) has been using new food price indexes that account for food substitutions to meet nutritional needs to evaluate food systems all over the world, including in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malawi, and Tanzania.

This seminar will present the outcomes of CANDASA’s work to date, with a panel discussion featuring field researchers from each country to discuss the local and global implications of their results.

Research by Tufts and IFPRI on this topic is supported by UKAid and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

IFPRI Policy Seminar:  What is the Cost of a Healthy Diet? - 5/29/2019 - WMasters

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Established in 1975, IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 50 countries. It is a research center of CGIAR, a worldwide partnership engaged in agricultural research for development.

2023 Global Food Policy Report: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses

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