Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security

IFPRI 2020 Conference

The resilience dividend

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“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

Highlights from Conference Brief 3: Building resilience to conflict through food security policies and programs

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Food insecurity and conflict often go hand-in-hand: a lack of food can ignite conflict and conflict can result in food shortages and unavailability. What’s more, the scope of the problem is far reaching, as more than one and a half billion people live in areas impacted by conflict. In their 2020 Conference Brief, Building Resilience >> Read more

Building resilience from within: Highlights from the opening session of the 2020 Conference

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“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

African smallholder farm families have lost the elasticity to bounce back!

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The following post by Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Chief Executive Officer of the Africa-wide Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), is an excerpted version of a story that originally appeared on the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog as part of their month-long series on Resilience. >> Read more

Highlights From Conference Briefs 12 and 14: Building Resilience In The Face Of Conflict

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In the past few decades, food-related challenges like climate change and food and nutrition security coupled with other social and political issues have led to conflict and unrest on both the national and regional scale. Climatic shocks are considered to be one of the root causes of conflict, especially in resource-constrained settings. At the same time, conflicts tend to exacerbate existing vulnerability, leading to poverty‐conflict traps at the household, community, and national levels. In their conference brief, Margherita Calderone, Derek Headey, and Jean-François Maystadt review the research about the impact of climate change >> Read more

Pacific voices to be heard at Global Conference on Building Resilience to Food and Nutrition Security

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Voices from Small Island Developing States including the Pacific and the Caribbean will be heard at the High Level Panel on Global Conference on Building Resilience to Food and Nutrition Security which begins today in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.   The Director for the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Michael Hailu >> Read more

Can you be resilient on one acre or less?

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Our guest author, Emily Alpert, Deputy Director of Agriculture for Impact, concludes 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.   An acre is about the size of a football pitch. That might seem like a lot, but if your >> Read more

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