Before government programs and international aid efforts, people coped with disasters, famine, conflicts, and other shocks by coming together as a community and relying on their networks—in other words, using social capital. Social capital, in the form of community-based organizations and social networks, has traditionally played an important, but largely unexplored, role in building resilience. >> Read more
Highlights from Conference Brief 18: Strengthening the links between resilience and nutrition
In the field of food policy, nutrition and resilience are strongly interlinked conceptually—and now Charlotte Dufour, Domitille Kauffmann, and Neil Marsland are trying to bind the two much more tightly in practice. Resilience, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is “the ability to prevent disasters and crises as well >> Read more
Highlights from Conference Brief 16: Building a resilient global food system by lowering food price spikes and volatility
Why should we be concerned about volatility and spikes in global food prices, particularly since they have subsided in recent years?
Highlights from Conference Brief 8- Resilience: a primer
Resilience, a term once reserved for such fields as ecology and psychology, is now being referenced in international development circles. Does it add anything new and useful to development theory and practice or is it simply more jargon? IFPRI senior research fellow John Hoddinott prefaces his conference brief with a definition of resilience in >> Read more
Bouncing back: building resilience for food and nutrition security
The following post by Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head of IFPRI's 2020 Vision Initiative, was originally published on the Global Food Security blog. We need to be better prepared for shocks, says Rajul Pandya-Lorch of the International Food Policy Research Institute. Poor countries and vulnerable people are being hit hard by a barrage of shocks: >> Read more
Tough Love: Making Resilience Meaningful
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 Farming First 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 new. Resilience casts >> Read more
2020 conference to be held May 15-17, 2014,in Addis Ababa
We are pleased to announce the IFPRI 2020 Conference on “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in May 2014.
Policy consultation launched on "Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security"
IFPRI and its 2020 Vision Initiative have launched a two-year global consultative policy process on “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security.”
Chris Barrett on a Theory of Resilience
During the first lead-in policy seminar for the 2020 policy conference, Dr. Christopher Barrett, Professor of Economics, Cornell University, presented a theory of resilience for international development.
Brussels Briefing on Agricultural Resilience
On March 4, 2013, IFPRI co-organized the 30th Brussels Briefing on “Agricultural resilience in the face of crisis and shocks” at the European Economic and Social Committee.
