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Feed the Future’s Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) is looking for up to four students (advanced MA or PhD level) who are interested in working on the intersection of climate, gender and nutrition using Feed-the-Future datasets. Through the GCAN Student Challenge, these students will explore how climate, gender and nutrition intersect to…
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SPRING (Strengthening Partnerships, Results and Innovation in Nutrition Globally) will hold a webinar on April 5 on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a tool designed and tested by IFPRI, that is used to measure women’s empowerment SPRING used the tool in projects in Bangladesh, where women are relatively less empowered in comparison to…
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will release “2017 Global Food Policy Report” on March 23 in a Washington, D.C. event streamed on the internet. The report takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities of urbanization for food security and nutrition. At the event, a panel will discuss: What we know about…
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is surveying people across the globe on the state of policies addressing food and nutrition security and urbanization. The results of the survey will appear in the report “2017 Global Food Policy Report,” which will be published in March and available for free as a PDF download at…
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The International Food Policy Research Institute has received a second round of support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to adapt and validate a measure of women’s empowerment that agricultural development projects can use to diagnose key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related…
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IFPRI’s 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report calls on global institutions, the private sector, and citizens of middle income countries to reshape these countries’ food systems to focus on nutrition and health, close the gender gap in agriculture, and improve rural infrastructure—particularly sanitation—in order to ensure food security for all. By addressing hunger and malnutrition within their own…
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