On November 3, 2014, resilience practitioners and experts gathered at IFPRI for a workshop to help develop IFPRI’s resilience research agenda. In an agenda that included a series of interactive breakout sessions, participants discussed research priorit... Source: Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security
Groundbreaking Index Launched to Empower Women and Fight Hunger
Washington, D.C.—A significant new breakthrough in the measurement of women’s empowerment in developing countries is launched today. The “Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index” (WEAI) is the first measure to directly capture women’s empowerment and inclusion levels in the agricultural sector. Source: Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)