IFPRI Africa

Africa’s population is the youngest of any region, with more than 400 million young people aged 15 to 35 out of a total of 1.5 billion. But even though rising numbers of this cohort—a “youth bulge”—enter the labor market every year, African economies are still struggling to create opportunities for them, leading to high rates of youth unemployment across the continent. This blog outlines some of the challenges young people in Africa currently face, the potential of food systems for addressing them, and offer a research agenda to move these ideas forward: https://lnkd.in/e_EyeKMv International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) CGIAR African Union

🔍Domaine de recherche de l'IFPRI: Innovations technologiques, institutionnelles et politiques pour accroître la productivité agricole et améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle ! De nombreux efforts sont en cours pour augmenter la productivité agricole et améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition en Afrique, en abordant des questions fondamentales. Ces efforts comprennent le développement de variétés à haut rendement et résistantes aux maladies, et la restauration des zones dégradées ; la conception et la mise en œuvre d'outils, de méthodologies et de stratégies d'aide à la décision pour la sécurité alimentaire, la gestion des ressources naturelles et la maîtrise de l'eau ; la lutte contre les inégalités des genres et l'amélioration de l'accès des femmes aux ressources productives et aux marchés ; l'élaboration de lignes directrices pour les aliments nutritifs ; et la fourniture d'une aide alimentaire d'urgence et d'autres formes d'aide humanitaire.

Today is the United Nations International Day of #Rural_Women. Celebrated each year on October 15, this year’s theme is “Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All.” Rural women play an essential role in the food systems of the world. However, they do not wield equal power with men, and as a result, they earn less income, have less access to resources and experience higher food insecurity. How can we help rural women secure their resource rights? This new blog looks at the Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform (RBET) framework, a tool for advancing equity and empowerment for women. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/ei3wWERq CGIAR #RuralWomen

📢 Join us tomorrow for a #PolicySeminar on : 📌 Debt Distress and the Right to Food in hashtag #Africa ⌚ 9:30 to 11:00AM EDT - 13:30 to 15:00 GMT 📍Online 💬Speakers Diana Gichengo (The Institute for Social Accountability), Charlotte Hebebrand (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Danielle Resnick (IFPRI), Windfuhr Michael (German Institute for Human Rights),Geeta Sethi (The World Bank Group), Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo), and Michael Gabriel (Welthungerhilfe (WHH) Register here: https://shorturl.at/Blbl0

In this blog Taddese Zerfu writes about a recent study that explored the current and future challenges of Ethiopia’s rural Health Extension Program (HEP) by examining the real-life experiences of health extension workers (HEWs) on the ground. CGIAR Health Services Research & Pharmacoepi Unit Malick Dione amare abera Sibhatu Biadgilign Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)

#DYK more than half of low-income countries are at risk of debt distress or have already defaulted? This policy seminar brings together speakers from #international and #African organizations to examine the impacts of the debt crisis on realizing the RtF in Africa and consider solutions to protect and progressively realize those rights. Don't miss out, sign up now 👉bit.ly/Rightfood Welthungerhilfe (WHH) CGIAR International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

🗣#IFPRI_Africa_BrownBagSeminarSeries TODAY at @9:00 AM DC, @1:00 PM Dakar, @4:00 PM Addis ! 📌 Potential Effectiveness of Integrating Human Milk Banking and Lactation Support on Neonatal Outcomes at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Kenya 📺 Tune in later at 👉 rb.gy/423kdj CGIAR PATH UNICEF SENEGAL Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) Africa Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes African Population and Health Research Center Calistus Wilunda Rock Zagré Malick Dione Abdourahmane SY Insa Diop

🆕📰Disclosure of Violence against #Women and #Girls in #Senegal. This study reports on a survey experiment in rural Senegal randomly varying whether women and adolescent girls complete a violence module administered by enumerators face-to-face or through ACASI. ✒️By Amber Peterman , Malick Dione, Agnes Le Port , Justine Briaux, Fatma LAMESSE and Melissa Hidrobo Find out more here 👉 https://shorturl.at/ccHsx International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) UNICEF UNICEF SENEGAL IRD CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform ISRA CERAAS International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) #violence_against_women_and_girls,  #intimate_partner_violence,  #measurement,#Senegal

📢#SAVETHEDATE 📌Join us for a brown bag seminar on the ‘’Potential Effectiveness of Integrating #Human #Milk Banking and #Lactation Support on Neonatal Outcomes at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, #Kenya“ 🎙️Presenter: Taddese Zerfu, Research Fellow at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Thursday, Sep 12, 2024 from 1:00 PM GMT - 4:00 PM EAT #online at 👉https://rb.gy/423kdj This presentation will be based on a study by✏️ Calistus Wilunda, Kiersten Israel-Ballard, milka njoki wanjohi, Nelson Langat, Kimberly Mansen, mary waiyego, ]Minnie Kibore, Eva Kamande, Taddese Zerfu, Angela Kithua, Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando, Juliana Muiruri, Elizabeth Maina, Emily M. Njuguna, Faith Njeru, Laura Kiige, Patrick Codjia, Betty Samburu, ESTHER MOGUSU, #Thomas_Ngwiri, #Waithira_Mirie, and Elizabeth Kimani-Murage CGIAR African Population and Health Research Center International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) PATH Concern Worldwide ---------------- #breast_milk, #milk_bank, #lactation_support, #low_birth_weight, #newborn, #preterm

Don't miss the session: Harmonising actions: How Africa’s food future can benefit people, climate, and biodiversity happening today wednesday, 4th September 2024 at the #Africa Food Systems Forum 2024 Summit, oganized by World Wildlife Fund and CGIAR’s Nature Positive Solutions. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)'s Sedi Anne Boukaka, Research Coordinator will deliver a keynote on Nature-Positive Solutions: Evidence on smallholder farmers and nature-positive production from Kenya baseline survey. Find out more here 👇 https://lnkd.in/dW2XWi73