Save the date! 📆 April 13⏰ 10:00 AM EDT

📌 Philanthropy and the future of food security

🤝 @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social @climateresilience.bsky.social @acscowcroft.bsky.social @cgiar.org and IFPRI.

🎟️Register here: www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/philanthropy-and-t...

This recent study with contributions from IFPRI’s @abhimishr.bsky.social, Timothy Sulser, and Keith Wiebe, found that ozone reduction could reduce the negative impact of a 1.5 °C-consistent climate change mitigation policy on global hunger by 15% in 2050: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-026-01322-3

📣 Starting soon – don’t miss this AI for Food Systems Research #webinar: 

 📌 Breaking the Silence: Deploying Automatic Speech Recognition for Agricultural Advisory

📆 April 9, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EDT


🎫 https://on.cgiar.org/3Qi5XuS

@cgiar.org 

Integrating nutrient supplements and WASH into agriculture programs improves child micronutrient status in Burkina Faso New IFPRI-led research finds that adding nutrient supplements and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions into gender-sensitive agriculture programs can significantly improve young childre...

#NewPublication 🧪 in The Journal of Nutrition!

An important evidence to the ongoing policy debate about how to design and target cost-effective, scalable strategies to reduce child anemia and micronutrient deficiencies in low-income settings ⏬

www.ifpri.org/news-release...

📣 Don’t miss this upcoming hybrid event:

📌 Three Years of Conflict: What the Evidence Tells Us and What Recovery Requires

📆 April 14 to 15, 2026, from 9:00 am – 5:30 pm (Africa/Cairo)

📍 Hybrid event

🎟️ https://on.cgiar.org/4squ3kK

@cgiar.org

Peer-reviewed publications from IFPRI researchers This week's featured articles examine how public price information affects farm incomes in Ethiopia; assess zinc absorption from biofortified, fortified, and conventional rice among children in Bangladesh; analyze how conflict and weather shocks shape p...

📚 Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn!

🖱️ Read more here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/peer-reviewed-publ...

@cgiar.org

World Health Day 2026: Trade wars reshape nutrition security opportunities World Health Day 2026 is globally celebrated following the theme “Together for health. Stand with science.” This year’s One Health campaign underscores the interconnectedness of huma...

How do global shocks impact nutrition and health?

On #WorldHealthDay, IFPRI’s Purnima Menon highlights how conflict and economic disruptions shape food systems—and why evidence-based policy matters.

Read more: https://on.cgiar.org/4cgDT2t

@cgiar.org @pmenon1.bsky.social

Will the Iran crisis lead to another round of food price spikes? Key differences from past crises.

🆕 #Blog Will the Iran crisis lead to another round of food price spikes?

🖊️ By Shawn Arita and Joseph Glauber.

🖱️ Learn more here: https://on.cgiar.org/4tuJKrT

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📢 There is still time to register for this #webinar in the AI for Food Systems Research series:  

📌 Breaking the Silence: Deploying Automatic Speech Recognition for Agricultural Advisory

📆 April 9, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EDT


🎫 https://on.cgiar.org/3Qi5XuS

@cgiar.org

This hybrid policy seminar on April 16 will highlight how policy attention and investment remain essential, despite past challenges in sustaining agricultural insurance markets:

👉🎟️ bit.ly/AG-Insurance

@cgiar.org

Generative AI-powered voice technology in agricultural advisory services: Lessons from India How developers built an app for smallholders.

🆕 #Blog Generative AI-powered voice technology in agricultural advisory services: Lessons from India

🖊️ By Suresh Babu and Praveen Ramadugo.

Read more: https://on.cgiar.org/4t1lhdZ

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How did the 2025 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit help to cement #nutrition as a core development priority? 🔍

Learn more at the 35th annual #FormanLecture with Her Excellency Éléonore Caroit at IFPRI on April 15: bit.ly/35FormanLecture

#IFPRIonNutrition @cgiar.org

📢 Save the date!  

📌 Breaking the Silence: Deploying Automatic Speech Recognition for Agricultural Advisory

📆 April 9, 9:30 – 10:30 am EDT

🎫 Register here: https://on.cgiar.org/3Qi5XuS

@cgiar.org

The hunger crisis is set to get worse in West and Central Africa—why and what to do about it Chronic problems of climate change, conflict, and fragile safety nets.

Countries in West and Central Africa are facing a food crisis with multiple causes.

In this blog, IFPRI researchers @oliverkirui.bsky.social and Chibuzo Nwagboso explain how serious the situation is: https://on.cgiar.org/3PM8Cgs

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🆕 🗞️ Ozone pollution reduction partially offsets the negative impact of climate change mitigation efforts on global hunger

🖊️ Contributions from IFPRI’s @abhimishr.bsky.social, Timothy B. Sulser, and Keith Wiebe.

🖱️ Read the full study here:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-026-01322-3

@cgiar.org

The Iran war's impacts on global fertilizer markets and food production Supply chain disruptions reverberate.

🆕 #Blog The Iran war’s impacts on global fertilizer markets and food production

🖊️ By Charlotte Hebebrand, Joseph Glauber, Rob Vos, and Brendan Rice.

🖱️ Read more here: on.cgiar.org/4bZFE3M

@cgiar.org

#NowReading Effects of an experiential learning game on groundwater resource governance in northeastern Ghana

🖊️ By Ivy Blackmore, Hagar ElDidi, Emmanuel Obuobie, Margaret Akuriba, Wei Zhang, Claudia Ringler, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick.

🖱️ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103975

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Peer-reviewed publications from IFPRI researchers This week's featured articles examine the rapid rise and impacts of agricultural drones globally; analyze links between nutrition and academic performance among schoolchildren in Ethiopia; evaluate how seed marketing approaches influence smallholder see...

📚 Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn!

Read more here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/peer-reviewed-publ...

@cgiar.org

Hope, hard lessons and the path to better nutrition - Nature Medicine Nourishing people demands collaboration across sectors, political cycles and countries.

and here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@cgiar.org @natureportfolio.nature.com

#Nutrition #Malnutrition #ResearchforAction #Research

#JustOut in ‘Nature Medicine’! A powerful viewpoint + call to action from @pmenon1.bsky.social.

Read to learn why 30 years of global nutrition progress bring her awe, optimism, and frustration—and why we should still hold onto hope.

Read the article here:👉 rdcu.be/faUaJ

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Don’t miss this upcoming webinar:

📌 Beyond Treatment: Integrated Strategies to Prevent Child Wasting and post-treatment Relapse

🤝 IFPRI, @edesianutrition.bsky.social, Eleanor Crook Foundation

📆 April 1, 2026, from 1:00-2:30 pm (Dakar/Bamako/Ouagadougou)

🖱️ https://on.cgiar.org/4sVYgJD

@cgiar.org

How AI can help reduce food loss and waste in Nigeria's tomato value chain Using photos to analyze when and where produce goes bad.

🍅 A pilot assessment in Jos, Nigeria, collected extensive visual and other data across multiple tomato varieties to train and validate an AI image analysis system that will evaluate tomato quality and quantify post‑harvest losses.

🖱️ Learn more in this blog: https://on.cgiar.org/48bal50

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📣 Save the date! The 35th Annual Forman Lecture will take place on April 15 from 10:00 - 11:00 AM EDT.

This year’s Forman Lecture will be delivered by Her Excellency Éléonore Caroit, France’s Minister Delegate to the Minister for
Europe and Foreign Affairs.

👉 bit.ly/35FormanLecture

@cgiar.org

#ICYMI Did you miss this #webinar in the AI for Food Systems Research series?

📌 Farmer-Centric AI for Livestock Systems: Design, Explainability, and Responsible Innovation

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

@cgiar.org

How school meals are transforming education in Zamfara State, Nigeria Scaling up a promising program.

#JustOut on our #blog:

How school meals are transforming education in Zamfara State, Nigeria

🖋️Oliver Kirui, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Asabe Maidawa & Aisha Ololade

www.ifpri.org/blog/how-school-meals-ar...

@cgiar.org

Co-designing AI agents for agricultural policy Generating insights for a rapidly-changing world.

AI agents have the potential to be important tools in policy development, and in agrifood policy in particular.

Learn more in this recent blog by Kristin Davis, Eliot Jones-Garcia, Hlamalani Ngwenya, Arielle Rosenthal, Amanda Grossi, and Mia Speier: https://on.cgiar.org/4uCMgh8

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📣 Starting soon – don’t miss this AI for Food Systems Research #webinar:   

 📌 Farmer-Centric AI for Livestock Systems: Design, Explainability, and Responsible Innovation

📆 March 26, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EDT

🎫 https://on.cgiar.org/4ltqBDT

@cgiar.org 

How AI can help reduce food loss and waste in Nigeria’s tomato value chain Using photos to analyze when and where produce goes bad.

Nigeria loses nearly half of its tomatoes before they reach the market. 🍅💔
Can AI help fix this? 🤖 @cgiar.org #foodloss #ai
New from IFPRI: www.ifpri.org/blog/how-ai-...

Scaling up crop insurance in Africa for climate resilience and agricultural transformation Advantages of risk management for smallholders.

In this blog, Ruth Hill and @berberkramer.bsky.social outline the state of current knowledge and the opportunities and priorities for increasing the availability and use of insurance in African agriculture: https://on.cgiar.org/4sI1PTa

@cgiar.org

What’s Really Driving Your Grocery Bill Up? YouTube video by CGTN America

Watch full episode here: youtu.be/nQlKj8Kovn4?...