IFPRI Podcast

Moderator: Peter Hazell, Independent Consultant Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation ( https://doi.org/10.2499/9780198845348 ) reveals that despite over 30 years of continuous growth in per capita income and rapid urbanization, Ghana has not industrialized and most of its workers remain trapped in low productivity work in agriculture and services. Using empirical analysis of the performance of Ghana’s economy and its agriculture sector over the past four decades, the recently published book offers key insights into harnessing agriculture’s potential for transformation in the country.

Opening remarks: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs Division; & Chief of Staff, Director General's Office, IFPRI Ghana’s Economic and Agricultural Transformation ( https://doi.org/10.2499/9780198845348 ) reveals that despite over 30 years of continuous growth in per capita income and rapid urbanization, Ghana has not industrialized and most of its workers remain trapped in low productivity work in agriculture and services. Using empirical analysis of the performance of Ghana’s economy and its agriculture sector over the past four decades, the recently published book offers key insights into harnessing agriculture’s potential for transformation in the country.

Discussant: Simeon Ehui, Director, Sustainable Development, Africa, World Bank The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Discussant: Manish Bapna, Managing Director, World Resources Institute The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Rapid Fire Presentation/Speaker: Implications by Channing Arndt, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Rapid Fire Presentation/Speaker: New ideas on sustainable pest management: It takes a village by Wei Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Rapid Fire Presentation/Speaker: New innovations in agricultural extension and rural advisory services by Simrin Makhija, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Rapid Fire Presentation/Speaker: Better at strengthening women’s and men's resilience by Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Scientist, IFPRI The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Rapid Fire Presentation/Speaker: Better risk management by Claudia Ringler, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Rapid Fire Presentation/Speaker: More R&D to increase agricultural productivity by Keith Wiebe, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Introduction: Neil Watkins, Deputy Director, Agricultural Development & Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Moderator: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs & Chief of Staff in the Director General's Office, IFPRI The Global Commission on Adaptation ( https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/adapt-our-world ) seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. In this seminar ( https://www.ifpri.org/event/adapting-new-climate-realities-doing-more-better-and-new ), IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Nurul Islam’s contribution to development reflects his remarkable career—which ranged from research and university teaching, to heading a prestigious research institute, to becoming a freedom fighter, to running the first Planning Commission in Bangladesh, to serving as Assistant Director General at FAO. Speaker: Nurul Islam, Research Fellow Emeritus, IFPRI Moderator: Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs & Chief of Staff in the Director General's Office, IFPRI

PIM Webinar with Dr. Steven Lawry (CIFOR) exploring how community tenure is facilitating investment in the commons for inclusive growth, with focus on cases from Guatemala and Nepal. More information about the webinar, including recording and presentation, at http://bit.ly/2k2s6yQ PIM Webinars aim to share findings of research undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), discuss their application, and get feedback and suggestions from participants. Recordings and presentations of the webinars are freely available on the PIM website: http://bit.ly/PIM-Webinars

Discussant: Jacob Kurtzer, Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow of Humanitarian Agenda, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) An impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition program provides new evidence of the benefits of “cash plus” transfer programs to meet nutritional needs in conflict situations—a context in which rigorous evidence is scarce. This event ( http://www.ifpri.org/event/impacts-cash-transfers-preventing-malnutrition-yemen ) will review the findings on the combination of cash transfers with nutritional education provided by the Yemen Social Fund for Development and its positive impacts on key measures of child and maternal nutrition.