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
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
Tough Love: Making Resilience Meaningful
Our guest author, Jon Kurtz, Director for Research and Learning for Mercy Corps, continues 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. Resilience has an Achilles’ heel: By being all things, it risks being nothing new. Resilience casts >> Read more
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.
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
Reframing Resilience for Pastoralists: Coping with drought matters, but is not the only thing that matters
Leading up to the 2020 Conference, Farming First in partnership with IFPRI has initiated a series of guest blog posts on resilience. In this first post, Lance Robinson, an environmental governance and resilience specialist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), reflects on what resilience means for pastoralists in the context of drought emergencies.
#2020Resilience Twitter Chat April 16
Join experts from Farming First and IFPRI on Twitter at 10am EDT on Wednesday, April 16, to discuss how poor people and communities can build resilience to shocks that threaten their food and nutrition security.
Brochure on “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security”
What does resilience mean? What shocks can we expect in the future? Whose resilience needs to be built? What has worked to improve resilience for food and nutrition security in the past, and what are the key knowledge gaps?
