The photo-infographic series below has been produced by Farming First in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in conjunction with the 2020 Conference.
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
Highlights from Conference Brief 1: Measuring resilience in a risky world
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. In applying a popular business adage to an international development-based resilience framework, researchers Chris Barrett and Derek Headey the case for long-term, high-frequency measurement and analysis of individual, household, and community resilience in the world’s most vulnerable regions. Their conference brief and related 2020 conference paper outline >> Read more
Resilience Quiz
Are you a resilience genius? See how you score on our 2-minute resilience quiz! Share your final score on Twitter (#2020resilience), and challenge your colleagues to beat you. To see the correct answers AFTER you have taken the quiz, click here.
#2020Resilience Twitter Chat Summary
The following post is a slightly modified version of a story that originally appeared on the Farming First website. To warm up for the global conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” taking place in Ethiopia in a few weeks time, Farming First and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held a >> Read more
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