IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, joined Earnán O’Cléirigh of Irish Aid, Nick Chisholm of University College Cork, Connell Foley of Concern Worldwide, Nora Owen of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) and Rajul Pandya-Lorch of IFPRI at a seminar organized by the IIEA on November 17 in Dublin
Experts meet to discuss IFPRI’s resilience research agenda
On November 3, 2014, resilience practitioners and experts gathered at IFPRI for a workshop to help develop IFPRI’s resilience research agenda.
Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and Weather Shocks
“As the food system grows more fragile, climate change and increasingly volatile weather are reducing agricultural productivity globally… There is an urgent need for strategies to build resilience for the world’s farmers in order to adapt to these changing conditions to achieve both global food security and nutrition security.”
The way forward for building resilience for ending hunger and malnutrition
Resilience is much more than the latest buzzword in development. It has real and practical meaning and application in our work, and will play a key role in bridging the divide between short-term relief and long-term development goals. In his closing remarks IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan shared lessons learned from the conference and >> Read more
Building a green and resilient economy in Ethiopia
“For us, anticipating, adapting to, and recovering from shocks are essential to our future.” With those words, H. E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, highlighted the importance of resilience for his country. In his inaugural address at the opening of the 2020 Conference on “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” Thursday evening, >> Read more
Strengthened resilience can help end hunger
Shocks, whether man-made or natural in origin, are a fact of life for citizens of both the developed and developing world. Building resilience in the face of growing threats such as extreme weather events, rising and highly volatile food prices, and the effects of global climate change is more important than ever. If we are >> Read more
Day One in Photos
The resilience dividend
“Resilience will pay dividends for fragile communities who today face environmental, economic and nutritional bankruptcy. For the people in communities affected by droughts, floods and other shocks, a resilience approach allows multiple entry points for action that can both restore the productivity of lands and significantly improve well-being. Empowering resilient families to withstand shocks can >> Read more
Building resilience from within: Highlights from the opening session of the 2020 Conference
“If the past is any guide, we will face a barrage of shocks, both natural and man‐made, in the coming years. In just the past five years, we have seen a major earthquake in Haiti; drought in the Horn of Africa; earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan; and conflicts that have left millions of >> Read more
#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
