Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security

IFPRI 2020 Conference

Highlights from Conference Brief 5: Are Shocks Actually on the Rise?

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From extreme weather events to rising and highly volatile food prices, poor and vulnerable populations are subject to a bevy of shocks that threaten their basic food and nutrition security. In the face of global climate change and other recent food price spikes, it seems to many that such events are occurring more and more >> Read more

Highlights from 2020 Conference Brief 7: Nongovernmental organizations’ approaches to resilience programming

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Stories of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) providing emergency relief in the aftermath of natural disasters and other humanitarian crises are familiar parts of the news. When NGOs such as CARE or Mercy Corps support medical services in South Sudan or bring food to people affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, we are not surprised. Less >> Read more

Highlights from Conference Brief 4: Local sources of resilience

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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

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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 8- Resilience: a primer

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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

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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

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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

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