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Tag: IFPRI

Opinion: Food Security & Nutrition

Jon Kurtz: Tough Love – Making Resilience Meaningful

Jon Kurtz

Global: Our guest author, Jon Kurtz, Director for Research and Learning for Mercy Corps, continues our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. Resilience has an Achilles’ heel: By being all things, it risks being nothing […]

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Opinion: Gender

Prabhu Pingali: Women’s Groups as Conduits Towards Resilient Communities

Prabhu Pingali

Asia: Our guest author, Prabhu Pingali, Professor of Applied Economics & Director of the Tata-Cornell Agriculture & Nutrition Initiative at Cornell University, continues our series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” 15-17 May 2014. Women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are […]

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News: Food Security & Nutrition

Highlights from IFPRI’s 2013 Global Food Policy Report

Farming First

Global: This week, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) launched its 2013 Global Food Policy Report, reviewing major trends and developments from the past year, and setting an agenda for action for 2014 and beyond. Whilst post-2015 development discussions are focusing on eliminating extreme poverty by 2030, the report argues that ending hunger and undernutrition […]

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