The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invite development practitioners, researchers working in food security, and others to provide insight on research investments to support the U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS).
Workshop: The Role of Information in Improving Rural Services and Governance
This workshop aims to shed light on whether and how greater access to information stemming from institutional or technological innovations can improve rural service delivery and governance. It brings together a diverse group of researchers who will present work examining a variety of different services and aspects of rural governance and exchange feedback.
IFPRI Egypt Seminar in partnership with WorldFish: The Role of Aquaculture in Improving Food Security, Income & Employment in Egypt
March 28th, 2017 Location: Climate Change Information Center and Renewable Energy (CCICRE) - within the headquarters of the Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt The Seminar Series provides a platform for all people striving to identify and implement evidence-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. The series is part of the United […]
Pathways Less Explored – Locus of Control and Technology Adoption
Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse of ESSP gave a presentation on Pathways Less Explored – Locus of Control and Technology Adoption at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) on March 24, 2017.
POSHAN Delivering for Nutrition 2016: Session on Self-Help Groups and Rural Livelihood Programs
Women’s self-help groups (SHG) are fast emerging as an ideal platform to effect change in health and nutrition behaviors. The unique design of group-based interventions presents opportunities to simultaneously tackle multiple basic, underlying and immediate causes of malnutrition laid out in the UNICEF Conceptual Framework of Malnutrition. As forums of adult women, they directly reach […]
