The 3-year program titled “Accelerating aquaculture development in Ghana through sustainable Nile Tilapia seed production and dissemination,” (TiSeed in short) launched on February 2019 to address issues in the tilapia seed and extension system to improve productivity and profitability of tilapia cage and pond farming in Ghana, with particular focus on women and youth small-scale […]
World Water Day 2021: How can we manage better what we value most?
by Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen-Dick The theme of World Water Day 2021 (March 22) is “Valuing Water”—recognizing that unless resources are valued, they won’t be used sustainably. But Water has not one, but many values. Life could not exist without it, and it has profound spiritual, religious, and cultural associations. Water also has important […]
Virtual Event: Reflecting on IFPRI’s ‘2020 Vision Initiative’ July 8, 2020 – 09:30 am to 11:00 am EDT
Register Launched in 1993, IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative set out to develop and promote a shared vision to eradicate hunger and malnutrition while protecting the environment and to catalyze global action. Through this initiative, IFPRI hosted a landmark series of high-profile conferences, workshops, and meetings to generate debate; produced an array of publications and […]
Celebrating Women in Science
Over the past 15 years, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engaging women and girls in science, yet there is still work to be done. This slideshow is part of a social media campaign to documents the stories of women scientists in the CGIAR on the occasion of International […]
High pesticide use poses risks for health, environment: evidence from East and Southern Africa
Africa south of the Sahara is urbanizing rapidly and its real GDP is growing robustly, trends that affect all levels of the food system. Overall demand for food in East and Southern Africa (ESA) is likely to increase by a factor of 3.3 to 9 times in the next 30 years, depending on economic conditions, […]