Smallholder agriculture: “It’s a cool business!”
Expert panel discussed expanding commercial opportunities for the poor at recent CGIAR Development Dialogues Today nearly 450 million farmers work on less than 2 hectares of land. Collectively, these...
View ArticleAfrican Dairy Value Chain Seminar: lessons, tools, approaches to African...
As we've already reported earlier, in September 2014, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU(CTA) organized a dairy...
View ArticleCrop System Models training at ICRISAT
As part of its activities under PIM and the Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program, the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) organized a five-day...
View ArticleStrengthening capacity of National Agricultural Research Institutes
The budgets of national agricultural research institutes (NARIs) in developing countries are subject to constant scrutiny, requiring these institutions to continually justify their spending. This...
View ArticleIFPRI turns 40
Forty years ago, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), PIM's lead center, was founded to provide research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and...
View ArticleCommons tenure for a common future
PIM supported CAPRi program will co-host a discussion forum titled "Commons tenure for a common future" as part of the Global Landscapes Forum happening this week in Paris. The role of tenure security...
View ArticleHubbing for impact
PIM’s Latin America and Caribbean Regional Value Chain Hub meeting with the Learning Alliance Peru PIM’s work on value chains (VC) generates much more than academic research and analysis. It includes a...
View ArticleBuilding capacity and a forum for collaboration
As part of its work under PIM (Flagship 1) and the Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) project, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) organized a five-day training...
View ArticleConference: Agriculture and Food Systems, Climate Change and Nutrition in CIS...
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Eurasian Center for Food Security, the World Bank and two IFPRI-led CGIAR Research Programs - Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)...
View ArticleTesting a new approach to drive inclusive business in Peru
Originally posted on the DAPA blog CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) has worked successfully for many years on the development of models for inclusive business culminating in the...
View ArticlePIM at the GCARD3 Global Event
The GCARD3 Global Event held in South Africa during 5-8th April 2016, a culmination of the third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (process taking place in 2015-2016), brings...
View ArticleWebinar: Collecting sex-disaggregated agricultural data through surveys
Date: April 21, 2016, 1pm-2:30pm EST PIM Gender team members Cheryl Doss and Caitlin Kieran invite participants to discuss how the "Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis"...
View ArticleIFPRI/PIM team receives World Bank Group, SVRI Award for Innovations to...
Adapted from the original World Bank post PIM is excited to congratulate our current and former IFPRI colleagues Akhter Ahmed, Melissa Hidrobo, John Hoddinott, and Shalini Roy with the reception of the...
View ArticleInternational conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Linking...
PIM is co-organizing (with CIRAD and other partners) the international conference on Agri-Chains and Sustainable Development: Linking local and global dynamics (AC&SD 2016) to be held on 12-14...
View ArticleCGIAR gender research training with Penn State features PIM and RTB research...
Cross-posted from RTB Research and lessons learned from a collaboration between the CGIAR Research Programs on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), and Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) to produce...
View ArticleCIMMYT gathers partners to discuss biotic stress and crop model integration
When crops are damaged by other living organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, insects and other pests, weeds or even cultivated plants competing for space and nutrients, we talk of the biotic...
View ArticleWorkshop: Innovative methods for measuring adoption of agricultural technologies
A workshop on "Innovative methods for measuring adoption of agricultural technologies: Establishing proof of concept and thinking about scaling up" will take place on August 3-4 in Boston, USA...
View ArticleKaren Brooks a keynote speaker at The Crawford Fund’s annual conference
PIM Director Dr Karen Brooks will be one of the two keynote speakers at The Crawford Fund’s annual conference this year. Titled “Waste Not, Want Not: The Circular Economy to Food Security”, the 2016...
View Article“We are all part of the problem”: Karen Brooks’ keynote address at The...
"This is my fridge; we are all part of the problem", admitted our director, Dr Karen Brooks, showing the first slide of her presentation to the participants of The Crawford Fund’s annual conference...
View ArticleDiscussing challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities in...
The session “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” organized by IFPRI with support from PIM took place on 29 September as part of the...
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