The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is the first-ever direct measure of women’s empowerment and inclusion in the agriculture sector. In response to demand from designers and implementors of agricultural development projects, IFPRI developed the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) to track the impacts of these projects on women’s empowerment.

To monitor and evaluate nutrition-sensitive and market inclusion interventions, IFPRI developed two sets of add-on indicators that are designed to complement the pro-WEAI in assessing women’s health and nutrition-related agency and to identify the constraints that women face as value chain and food system actors. The project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for health and nutrition (pro-WEAI+HN) includes the pro-WEAI indicators plus additional indicators capturing women’s health and nutrition agency. The pro-WEAI for market inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) includes the pro-WEAI indicators plus additional indicators to investigate barriers to market access and inclusion for different value chain actors. Both sets of add-on indicators were validated using cognitive interviewing and qualitative work, and the health and nutrition indicators have also undergone psychometric validation. 

This Policy Seminar will introduce the new health and nutrition (HN) and market inclusion (MI) indicators and explain how they can guide nutrition-sensitive and market inclusion elements of agricultural development projects. A panel of stakeholders-project implementors, researchers, and donors-will offer comments on these new tools and their relevance. 

Opening Remarks

• Purnima Menon, Senior Director for Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR; Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI 

Keynote Speakers

• Shakuntala Thilsted, Director, CGIAR Nutrition, Health & Food Security Impact Area Platform
• Inge Brouwer, WUR and IFPRI, CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) 

Pro-WEAI+HN

• Jessica Heckert, Research Fellow, IFPRI

Pro-WEAI+MI

• Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI 

Panel Discussion

• Elizabeth Kirkwood, Research Fellow, the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
• Rahma Adam, Social Inclusion & Market Scientist, and East & Southern Africa Regional Focal Point for the One CGIAR Research and Development Initiatives, WorldFish
• Geoffroy Gantoli, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
• David Spielman, Senior Research Fellow/Program Leader-Rwanda, IFPRI

Closing Remarks

• Farzana Ramzan, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Moderator

• Dan Gilligan, Deputy Director of Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, IFPRI

Joignez vous à nous pour une présentation de Xinshen Diao et James Thurlow de l'Institut International de Recherche sur les Politiques Alimentaires (IFPRI) sur leur dernière étude de modélisation de l'impact sur les pays. 

Cette analyse examine l'impact des chocs mondiaux récents et potentiels sur la pauvreté, la faim et les régimes alimentaires dans 17 pays. Ces chocs comprennent la pandémie de COVID-19, les niveaux élevés des prix des produits de base et un ralentissement économique mondial potentiel en 2023.

Cette présentation donnera une vue d'ensemble des analyses réalisées à ce jour ainsi qu'une discussion modérée sur les implications de la réponse de l'USAID. Nous espérons que vous vous joindrez à la conversation.

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A high-performing, resilient, and competitive agrifood processing sector can create remunerative employment opportunities, link producers to growing and lucrative urban markets, and help to ensure that consumers have access to sufficient and healthy food. Africa’s food processing sector is growing in response to growing demand for processed and high-value foods in the continent. However, processing firms, many of them small and informal enterprises, still face serious constraints. The 2022 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) examines Africa’s agrifood processing sector and its role in sustainable food systems on the continent. The report examines available evidence on the current status and performance of the sector, discusses key challenges, and identifies required policy actions to maximize its contribution to achieving sustainable food systems for all.

Please join us for this seminar where key research findings and policy recommendations of the 2022 ATOR will be presented and discussed by a distinguished panel of representatives from academia, the private sector, and international and regional organizations engaged in strengthening Africa’s agri-food processing sector.

Welcome Remarks

• Johan Swinnen, Managing Director of Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI
• Godfrey Bahiigwa, Director of Agriculture and Rural Development, African Union Commission (tbc)

Setting the Scene

• Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson and Acting Managing Director, AKADEMIYA2063

Key Research Findings and Recommendations

• Getaw Tadesse, Director of Operational Support, AKADEMIYA2063

Panel Discussion

• Thomas Reardon, Nonresident Fellow, IFPRI
• Janet Edeme, Head of Rural Development Division, Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (DARBE)
• Atsuko Toda, Director of Agricultural Finance and Rural Development, African Development Bank
• Dejene Tezera, Director of Department of Agribusiness Development, UNIDO
• Ashish Pande, Country Head, Olam Nigeria

Moderator

• Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI

L' Organisation Mondiale de la Santé estime que chaque année, 600 millions de personnes tombent malades et beaucoup meurent à cause d'aliments insalubres. Jusqu'à 38% des personnes touchées sont des enfants de moins de cinq ans et 53% des personnes vivant dans des Pays à Revenu Faible ou Intermédiaire (PRFI). Pour combler cette lacune, EatSafe Innovation Challenge vise à encourager le développement de solutions de sécurité alimentaire ou de produits alimentaires plus sûrs dans le but d'améliorer la sécurité alimentaire des consommateurs sur les marchés traditionnels, un cadre où la majorité des consommateurs des PRFI ont accès à des aliments nutritifs. 

Ce webinaire est la deuxième partie d'une série soulignant l'importance des solutions innovantes en matière de sécurité alimentaire et leur applicabilité aux pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire, en particulier sur les marchés traditionnels et tout au long de la chaîne de valeur alimentaire . Dans la première partie de la série, les participants ont découvert les approches centrées sur le consommateur dans la recherche sur la sécurité alimentaire. Au cours de cette session, les conférenciers interviendront sur l'application, la mise en œuvre et la pratique de solutions innovantes pour la sécurité alimentaire, y compris les points saillants des finalistes du EatSafe Innovation Challenge. Un accent particulier sera mis sur les marchés traditionnels, un cadre où la plupart des habitants des pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire ont accès à des aliments frais et nutritifs. 

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The new Kenyan government faces a complex domestic and global environment. Rapid population growth and urbanization with limited structural transformation present major challenges to Kenya’s ability to achieve food security for all and become a higher-middle-income country in the medium term.  If recent economic trends are any indication, the country risks not having enough jobs to support the projected increase in the labor force. Another key consideration for the Kenyan government is how to feed the country’s rapidly growing population in an increasingly volatile global environment complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

The government is widely expected to address these challenges with a new set of policies and programs as part of its Bottom Up Economic Plan. This seminar will discuss results from an ongoing effort by KIPPRA and CGIAR’s National Policies and Strategies Initiative to model the expected impacts of implementing the plan on key socioeconomic outcomes such as the food system, diets, jobs, poverty, and inequality. To highlight the important links between the plan and food systems transformation, the seminar will also present recommendations from a new policy brief entitled “Transforming Food Systems in Kenya for a New Era of Growth and Prosperity.”

Welcoming remarks

• Rose Ngugi, Executive Director, KIPPRA
• Channing Arndt, Senior Director, Transformation Strategies, CGIAR and Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Keynote address 

• Njuguna Ndung’u, Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury and Economic Planning (Invited)
• Mithika Linturi, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (Invited)

Estimated impacts of implementing the Bottom Up Economic Plan on food systems and social outcomes

• KIPPRA/IFPRI

Transforming food systems in Kenya: Policy options for a new era of growth and prosperity

• Joseph Karugia, Principal Scientist – Agricultural Economist and Policy Expert, ILRI/CGIAR

Panel discussion and reflections on the study  

Q&A

Closing remarks

• Clemens Breisinger, IFPRI Country Program Leader & Lead, CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies
• Rose Ngugi, Executive Director, KIPPRA

Join USAID’s Private Sector Engagement Secretariat and USAID’s Rwanda and Bangladesh Missions on Thursday, October 27, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. ET to learn about promising practices for engaging the private sector to advance and sustain inclusive, agriculture-led economic growth and a well-nourished population, especially among women and children.

This webinar will feature a panel of practitioners to discuss how the private sector can supplement public sector interventions in the agricultural sector, as well as highlight private sector partnerships in Rwanda and Bangladesh with a special focus on nutrition. 

The Feed the Future Rwanda Orora Wihaze activity, supported by USAID/Rwanda, works with local partners and private sector actors in the country to sustainably increase the availability, access, and consumption of animal-sourced foods through the development of a profitable market. The Feed the Future Bangladesh Nutrition Activity, supported by USAID/Bangladesh, works with private sector partners to empower and support market and community actors to address underlying causes of malnutrition in the country.

Join this webinar to learn more!

Unprecedented extreme weather events linked to climate change are contributing to the current global food and energy price crisis and severely impacting livelihoods and food and nutrition security. In this context, expectations are high for the 27th Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) taking place under the Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

As a major agricultural producer in a highly climate-stressed region, Egypt brings a unique perspective to food system resilience. This presentation will highlight the Egyptian Presidency’s strategic objectives on climate change and food systems for COP27 and the climate challenges facing Egypt’s food system. CGIAR’s team will showcase its new global research portfolio on climate change and outline its objectives for COP27.

A panel of distinguished speakers will comment on Egypt’s priorities for COP27, actions specific to Egypt’s agrifood sector, and CGIAR’s research portfolio and plans for COP27.

Opening Remarks

• Michael Baum, Deputy Director General, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Egyptian Presidency COP27: Vision and Key Planned Outcomes from COP27 in the Agriculture and Food Systems space

• H.E. Ambassador Ayman Tharwat, Minister Plenipotentiary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt

Climate Change Challenges Facing Egypt's Food System

• Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

The CGIAR Climate Change Research Portfolio

• Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI

CGIAR SLT Rep on CGIAR's COP27 objectives and Food Pavilion

• Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT

Reflections based on the 2022 Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC

• Aditi Mukherji, Principal Researcher, IWMI-IPCC

Implementing climate change goals on the ground in Africa

• Reem Abdel Meguid, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees: The association for sustainable quality of living (Estidama) & Lead of the Africa Grows Green Initiative – COP27

USAID Climate change priorities and COP27

• Kathleen Kirsch, Climate Integration Lead, Office of Economic Growth, USAID/Egypt

Closing Remarks

• Michael Baum, Deputy Director General, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Moderator

• Roula Majdalani, Climate Change Advisor, ICARDA

The world is facing a potential food crisis worse than any seen since World War II. With Russia’s devastating war on Ukraine, a historic drought and heat wave in China, and an irregular monsoon season in South Asia, food supplies from several of the world’s largest granaries are highly uncertain and concerning. Global hunger has been rising since 2015, and the number of people facing acute, crisis-level food insecurity has doubled to well over 200 million. Famine is threatening the lives of large populations in the Horn of Africa, Yemen, and South Sudan. Already, climate change is compounding the global risks to food security.

In response to this “code red for global food systems,” the world community is beginning to coalesce around several action areas set forth by the Declaration of Leaders’ Summit on Global Food Security, the Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS) convened by the G7 Development Ministers, and the French Initiative for an International Food and Agriculture Resilience Mission (FARM), among others. At the G20 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting, held in Bali on September 27th, serious concerns were expressed about the global food security situation, but members stopped short of announcing concrete, concerted efforts to address the crisis. This may still come at the joint G20 Agriculture and Finance Ministers’ meeting on October 11, 2022.

What can the G20 do to help, and should it play a role in enhancing, strengthening, and coordinating initiatives to help avoid a potential food catastrophe and prevent future threats by making food systems resilient and sustainable?

This seminar will address these questions and consider the proposals made by the Task Force on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture of the Think20 (T20).

What can the G20 do to address the global food security crisis? 

• Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR and Director General, IFPRI

Panel Discussion

• Godfrey Bahiigwa, Director of Agriculture and Rural Development, African Union Commission
• Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, IICA Visiting Fellow, IFPRI
• Damayanti Buchori, Lead Co-chair, Task Force Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture T20 
• Arif Husain, Chief Economist, World Food Program (WFP) 
• Mari Pangestu, Managing Director World Bank 

Q&A

Closing Remarks

• Rob Vos, Director of Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, IFPRI

Moderator

• Valeria Piñeiro, Acting Head of the Latin American region & Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI

The Russian war in Ukraine is hitting the global food supply chain and impacting prices of raw material (largely wheat), fertilizer, and fuel, which limit production, increase costs and depress sales. This has shaped manufacturers’ supply chain strategies and has greatly affected Africa’s food processing industry, despite being far from the conflict zone.

The session under the Alliance for Inclusive and Nutritious Food Processing (AINFP) Webinar series will bring together food processors, partners, and food industry experts from the region to engage and share experiences and opportunities in building resilience as a continent against world crises. 

Learn more about the AINFP program at www.ainfp.org and click here for more information about the event.

Africa’s agricultural trade capacity and policy are increasingly important as global volatility in agriculture and fertilizer markets is increasing risks for many importing and exporting countries. The 2022 edition of the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2022 (AATM), a flagship of IFPRI and AKADEMIYA2063, analyzes short- and long-term trends and drivers of African agricultural trade flows, including regional policies and the role of global markets. Chapters in this year’s report examine the impact of the Russia-Ukraine War, the potential of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to contribute to growth, the development of value chains for processed products and for coffee, tea, and cocoa, as well as the role of intraregional trade in the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), and makes recommendations for promoting the development of African trade.

Speakers and discussants will review the report’s key findings and implications for next steps.

Master of Ceremony

• Layih Butake, Director of Communication and Outreach, AKADEMIYA2063

Introductory Remarks

• Johan Swinnen, Global Director, CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group & Director General, IFPRI
• Hon. Dr. Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, Minister of Trade and Industry, Republic of Rwanda
• H.E. Ambassador Leonel Josefa Sacko, Commissioner, Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (AUC- DARBE) (invited)

Main Findings of the 2022 AATM report

• Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson, AKADEMIYA2063, Rwanda

AATM 2022 Video

Panel presentation of the 2022 AATM report and discussion

• Antoine Bouët, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Sunday Pierre Odjo, Deputy Director, Knowledge Systems, AKADEMIYA2063
• Chahir Zaki, Associate professor, Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University

Discussants

• Jacob Kotcho, Directeur du Marché Commun, Economic Community of Central African States
• Joseph Larrose, Director of Development, Touton
• Christiane Wolff, Counselor, World Trade Organization

Q&A with virtual audience

Closing Remarks

• Chris Shepherd-Pratt, Policy Chief, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (invited)

Moderator

• Heike Hoeffler, Project Lead, Agricultural Trade, Agribusiness, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany (invited)