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In the News

September 2014

• Policymakers Turn to Smallholder Farmers as Partners in Development
  September 4, 2014 - Food Tank: The Food Think Tank

July 2014

• IFPRI 2020 Conference holds in Africa
  July 14, 2014 - Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China
• Industrialization nourishes food security
  July 11, 2014 - China Daily
• Intensified agri support in provinces urged
  July 6, 2014 – Manila Bulletin

June 2014

•  Next Briefing: Building resilience of SIDS through trade and agribusiness development
  June 13, 2014 – Brussels Development Briefings

• Progress in the Global Food Security Challenge
  June 13, 2014 – DuPont Food Security Newsletter from Jim Borel

• ‘Borne by the rest of the world’: deforestation has global impact, reduces food security
  June 13, 2014 – Mongabay.com

• 101 Facts That Make Us Hopeful About the Future of Food
  June 11, 2014 – Food Tank: The Food Think Tank

• Resilience: from conference room to conflict zone
  June 6, 2014 – Oxfam Policy & Practice

• Taking our communications to the next level? – Reflections from the Farming First and IFPRI workshop
  June 5, 2014 – Maarifa (ILRI Blog)

May 2014

•  DuPont research boosts 4,000 new products for agriculture, nutrition
  May 29, 2014 – Manila Bulletin

• IFPRI 2020 Conference: Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security
  May 26, 2014 – GFAR News

• Playing Lasarus: Gaming the path to resilience or the next unused toolkit?
  May 23, 2014 – Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog

• Social ties cushion vulnerable communities from disasters
  May 22, 2014 – Reuters AlertNet

• Upholding local knowledge and a partnership approach to building resilience
  May 22, 2014 – IFAD Social Reporting Blog

• Commentary – Resilient Smallholder Farming Systems Are Vital for Global Food Security and Nutrition
  May 22, 2014 – Global Food for Thought blog

• IFPRI Says Post-2015 Global Development Agenda Must Focus on Food Security
  May 20, 2014 – NAM News Network

• IFPRI Says Ethiopia’s Handling of Emergencies, Sustainable Development, Exemplary
  May 20, 2014 – NAM News Network

• Professor Tan Shuhao was invited to participate in the IFPRI 2020 Conference on Building Resilience for Food & Nutrition Security (Chinese)
  May 20, 2014 – Renmin University, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

• Investing in Resilience of Smallholder Farming ‘Essential’
  May 20, 2014 – Addis Standard

• Food security: ‘Renewed efforts to collaborate on building resilience is the way forward’
  May 20, 2014 – Hindu Business Line

• IFPRI holds conference on Building Resilience to End Hunger
  May 19, 2014 – Ghana News Agency

• Ethiopia’s Efforts to Handle Emergencies, Ensure Sustainable Development Commendable: IFPRI
  May 19, 2014 – Ethiopian News Agency

• L'IFPRI organise la « Conférence 2020 sur le renforcement de la résilience pour la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle » (15-17 mai 2014, Addis-Abeba)
  May 19, 2014 – Rural Hub

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
  May 19, 2014 – Meridian Institute

• FANRPAN Participates At the Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia May 15-17, 2014 hosted by IFPRI
  May 19, 2014 – FANRPAN website

• Ethiopia’s Sustainable Development, Emergency Management Commendable
  May 19, 2014 – Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency

• Food Security a Priority for Poorer Regions: Leaders
  May 19, 2014 – Jakarta Globe

• Africa: Investing in Resilience of Smallholder Farming ‘Essential’
  May 19, 2014 – AllAfrica.com

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
  May 18, 2014 – NonProfit Press

• IFPRI Conference Highlights Role of Resilience in Ensuring Food and Nutrition Security
  May 18, 2014 – Climate Change Policy & Practice

• Thought for Food
  May 18, 2014 – Addis Fortune

• Pacific and Caribbean voices echo at global research forum
  May 18, 2014 - Scoop

• PM urges Africa to build resilient agricultural system, strengthen marketing
  May 17, 2014 – The Reporter

• GTP, Green Strategy Helping to Improve Agricultural Production, Ensure Food Security: Premier
  May 16, 2014 – Ethiopian News Agency

• SIDS to discuss food and nutrition security in Samoa
  May 16, 2014 - PACNEWS

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
  May 16, 2014 – Reuters AlertNet

• Ethiopian PM urges Africa to build resilient agricultural systems
  May 16, 2014 – Africa Science News Service

• Commissioner Tumusiime addresses media on building resilience for food and nutrition security
  May 16, 2014 – African Union

• Commissioner Tumusiime discusses agricultural transformation in Africa with Dr. Shrier of the Office of Global Food Security
  May 16, 2014 – African Union

• CTA High Level Panel on Resilience for SIDS (IFPRI 2020)
  May 16, 2014 – Brussels Development Briefings

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 16, 2014 – Green Africa Directory

• The Ongoing “Resilience” Conference and H.E. Prime Minister’s Speech (Video)
  May 16, 2014 – Agri-ProFocus/Agri-Hub Ethiopia

• Building resilience critical to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025
  May 16, 2014 – Africa Green Media

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
  May 16, 2014 – noodls.com

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
  May 16, 2014 – World News (WN)

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
  May 16, 2014 – ReliefWeb

• Weather-based insurance for African farmers has issues
  May 16, 2014 – Scidev.Net

• African smallholders ‘need techs to spur food security’
  May 16, 2014 – Scidev.Net

• Ethiopia hosts food security talks
  May 16, 2014 – Africa Review

• Ethiopia: Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition By 2025
  May 16, 2014 – AllAfrica.com

• Global conference hails Ethiopia’s resilience building efforts
  May 16, 2014 – Walta Information Center

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
  May 16, 2014 – World Food Programme

• Addis Ababa to host Africa food security meet Thursday
  May 15, 2014 – Anadolu Agency

• Building resilience high on agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 15, 2014 - PACNEWS

• Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security. IFPRI 2020 Conference
  May 15, 2014 – Environment Conflict and Cooperation (ECC)

• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 May 2014 – Secretary-General’s video message to the IFPRI 2020 Policy Consultation and Conference ‘Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition’
  May 15, 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General

• Keynote address by IFAD President to the IFPRI 2020 conference: Building resilience for food and nutrition security
  May 15, 2014 – IFAD Website

• Africa’s small farmers key to reducing poverty, increasing food security, IFAD’s President tells Ethiopia gathering
  May 15, 2014 – IFAD Website

• Side Event “Nutrition as an input and an outcome of Resilience”, IFPRI 2020 Resilience Conference
  May 15, 2014 – FAO News

• African awakening will avert future food crises
  May 15, 2014 – IFAD Social Reporting Blog

• Caribbean delegates among SIDS attending conference on food and nutrition security
  May 15, 2014 – Antigua Observer

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 15, 2014 – Addis News

• Building resilience from within: Highlights from the opening session of the 2020 Conference
  May 15, 2014 - Wyiyit

• IFPRI Conferencia 2020: Evento paralelo sobre el Fortalecimiento de la resiliencia en tierras secas de África: Hacia una Agenda para el Desarrollo Compartido
  May 15, 2014 – CostaricaOn.com

• IFPRI Conferencia 2020: Evento paralelo sobre el Fortalecimiento de la resiliencia en tierras secas de África: Hacia una Agenda para el Desarrollo Compartido
  May 15, 2014 – PanamaOn.com

• African Awakening Will Avert Future Food Crises
  Op-ed by Shenggen Fan and Kanayo F. Nwanze
  May 15, 2014 – Allafrica.com

• Revue de la presse quotidienne internationale africaine (RPQI- Afrique)/ 1
  May 14, 2014 – Maghreb Arabe Presse Agency (MAP)

• Conférence internationale sur la sécurité alimentaire, du 15 au 17 mai à Addis-Abeba
  May 14, 2014 – Maghreb Arabe Presse Agency (MAP)

• IFPRI 2020 Conference, May 15-17 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  May 14, 2014 – FCRN – Food Climate Research Network

• International Conference to Be Held in Addis Tomorrow: Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security
  May 14, 2014 – Agri-ProFocus/Agri-Hub Ethiopia

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 14, 2014 – Addis Standard

• IFPRI 2020 Conference: Side Event on Enhancing Resilience in African Drylands: Toward a Shared Development Agenda
  May 14, 2014 – African Agricultural News

• Ethiopia to host global food security conference
  May 14, 2014 - Zegabi

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 14, 2014 – Ethiosports

• High Level Panel on Small Island Resilience (IFPRI 2020), Ethiopia – Thursday 15 May 2014
  May 14, 2014 – capacity4dev.eu

• SIDS well represented at IFPRI 2020
  May 14, 2014 – capacity4dev.eu

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia (IFPRI – International Food Policy Research Institute)
  May 13, 2014 – World News (WN)

• Education can break the Horn of Africa's climate-conflict cycle
  op-ed by Jean-François Maystadt and Derek Headey
  May 13, 2014 - Reuters AlertNet

• Resilient Policies for Nutritional Security
  May 13, 2014 – Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition

• The IFPRI 2020 Conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security on 15-17 May, 2014 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  May 13, 2014 – APAARI News

• Building Resilience for Food Security and Nutrition
  May 13, 2014 - Agrilinks

• Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security IFPRI 2020 Conference
  May 13, 2014 – University of Hohenheim

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 13, 2014 – NonProfit Press

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 13, 2014 – GFAR News

• Resilience
  May 13, 2014 – Farming First

• IFPRI 2020 Conference on Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security
  May 13, 2014 – Farming First

• Ethiopia to host food and nutrition security meet
  May 13, 2014 – Hindu Business Line

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 13, 2014 – noodls.com

• Africa: Building Resilience Tops Agenda At Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 13, 2014 – AllAfrica.com

• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
  May 13, 2014 - Agrifeeds

• People-focused approach needed for sustainability, food security
  May 13, 2014 – CGIAR News

• IFPRI Reviews Opportunities to Reduce Climate-related Conflict
  May 2, 2014 – Climate Change Policy & Practice

April 2014

• CTA High-Level Panel on ‘Enhancing resilience for food and nutrition security in small-island economies’
  April 30, 2014 – capacity4dev.eu

• High Level Panel on Small Islands Resilience, Ethiopia
  April 30, 2014 – CTA Brussels Office weblog

 

Press Release:

• Building Resilience Critical to End Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025
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• Building Resilience Tops Agenda at Global Conference in Ethiopia
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Media Advisory:

“Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security”
Global conference organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - May 15-17, 2014

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