There is a wide recognition that building the resilience of the rural poor—the most vulnerable group—requires helping the affected recover from various shocks, such as weather and nutritional shocks.
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?
Farming First and IFPRI Photo-Infographic Series
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
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
IFPRI 2020 Mobile App Now Available!
We are pleased to announce the debut of the "IFPRI 2020" mobile app for use before, during and after the conference.
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.
Women’s groups as conduits towards resilient communities
By Prabhu Pingali, Professor of Applied Economics & Director, Tata-Cornell Agriculture & Nutrition Initiative (TCi), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Everyday emergencies: How social protection schemes can build resilient children, families and communities
By Sheri Arnott, Senior Policy Advisor Food Assistance/Food Security, Food Programming and Management Group, Sustainable Health, World Vision International
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