Event
IFPRI Policy Seminar
Learning Support for a Multi-Country Climate Resilience Programme for Food Security
Organized by CGIAR with support from World Food Programme (WFP) and The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
November 5, 2024


The Learning Support for a Sub-Saharan Africa Multi-Country Climate Resilience Program for Food Security, launched in 2023, aims to enhance food security and climate resilience across 14 African countries. This collaboration among CGIAR, the World Food Programme, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) has three pillars: scaling disaster risk financing, transforming food systems with sustainable school meals and clean cooking, and supporting smallholder farmers. This work leverages CGIAR’s extensive experience in strategic program support, impact evaluations, and knowledge product development, and integrates the CGIAR’s Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) and Seed Equal initiatives. Ongoing efforts include strategic reviews, resilience assessments, and evaluations of WFP’s nutritional and crisis resilience interventions.

The event aims to disseminate research findings and showcase the partnership’s significant contributions to food security and climate resilience. Speakers from CGIAR, WFP, and Norad will present an overview of the program and highlights of research projects and findings, followed by a panel discussion by experts from several African countries.

Introduction and Opening Remarks
Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI; Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR
Arif Husain, Chief Economist and Director of Analysis, Planning and Performance, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Daniel van Gilst, Senior Agriculture Adviser, The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

An Overview of the CGIAR-WFP Activities Funded by Norway
Daniel Gilligan, Director, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI), IFPRI

Highlights of Selected Research Projects and Findings
Jessica Leight, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Alan de Brauw, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI  
Peter Läderach, Program Leader, Co-lead CGIAR Climate Security / Principal Climate Scientist, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT (ABC)
Wolde Mekuria, Senior Researcher, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Panel Discussion

Moderated by: Sandra Ruckstuhl, Senior Researcher, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

David Kamau, Programme Officer, World Food Programme (WFP), Kenya
Lynett Ochuma, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Kenya
Christian Grassini, World Food Programme (WFP), Mozambique
Serene Philip, Social Protection Specialist, World Food Programme (WFP), Somalia
Adeyinka Jacob Timothy, Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Officer, World Food Programme (WFP), Nigeria

Closing Remarks 
Katrina Kosec, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Moderator
Mulugeta Bayeh, Web Communications Manager, IFPRI

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Learning Support for a Multi-Country Climate Resilience Programme for Food Security

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

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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

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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.

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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 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.

Learning Support for a Multi-Country Climate Resilience Programme for Food Security

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