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🌍 IFPRI is pleased to announce that Steven Were Omamo Steven Were Omamo has been appointed IFPRI’s Director for #Africa. 📣 #PressRelease: on.cgiar.org/42hLd8S CGIAR IFPRI_Africa IFPRI Malawi IFPRI Rwanda IFPRI-ESSP

🆕#Publication: Economic and welfare implications of the reduction of US foreign assistance in Malawi ✍️By Lara Cockx, Joachim De Weerdt, Jan Duchoslav, Andrew Jamali, Joseph Nagoli, Karl Pauw and James Thurlow. 🔗Read here bit.ly/4jdcxN7 CGIAR IFPRI National Planning Commission (Malawi)

#ICYMI 📢 The March 2025 IFPRI Malawi Maize Market Report is out! 🌽📊 Explore key trends in maize prices, trade flows, and market dynamics across Malawi. 👉bit.ly/44L7JKa

🚨Join AWARD Fellowships, African Forum For Agricultural Advisory Services. & #CAAD_XP4 at #AAEW2025 for a hybrid side event on scaling gender-responsive agri extension for inclusive food systems! 🗓️ May 12 | 16:30 – 18:30 CAT |17:30-19:30 EAT |15:30-17:30 WAT 🎙️Keynote: Dr. Susan Kaaria 🔗 Register:

📉 IFPRI Malawi Maize Market Report – April 2025 Retail maize prices dropped 21% in April with new harvests & lower-cost imports driving the fall. Prices were below the govt. set price in 21 of 26 markets. 🔗 Full report: bit.ly/4m8eI6o

📢 IFPRI Malawi is excited to join stakeholders at the Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week! We're here to share insights on evidence-based policy, innovation, and inclusive extension systems that empower farmers across the continent. 🌍🌱 MaFAAS African Forum For Agricultural Advisory Services. #AAEW2025

🟡Empowering rural farmers with knowledge, tools, and innovation is key to unlocking food security and nutrition across Africa. This week, we join delegates from across the continent in Malawi to explore rebranding extension to drive #GoodFood4All. #AgriAfrica #AAEW2025

🟡In his opening remarks for #AAEW2025, African Forum For Agricultural Advisory Services. chair, Dr Nahdy (Dr. Silim Mohammed Nahdy) has called upon African govts. to deliver their commitments on the newly launched #CAADP strategy and invest in extension workers to expedite food systems transformation and end hunger. #GoodFood4All

🆕 #Blog Beyond the hype: Centering humans in CGIAR’s genAI research 📝 By Eliot Jones-Garcia 🔗 Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/3YPvtt8 CGIAR

🔟 days until the launch of IFPRI's 2025 Global Food Policy Report! 📆 May 28, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT 📍In-person and online 🎫 Register here: bit.ly/GFPR2025 CGIAR IFPRI_Africa IFPRI-Bangladesh IFPRI South Asia #GFPR2025 #IFPRI50

Have you registered for the #GFPR2025 launch? 📆 May 28, 2025, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT 📍In-person and online. 🗨️ Johan Swinnen Ruth Hill Steven Were Omamo Agnes Quisumbing David Spielman Dr. Purnima Menon Alice Ruhweza Ramesh Chand 🇮🇳 Chris Barrett Ismahane Elouafi Joan Matji 🎫

How can national data systems drive gender equity in agriculture? 📊🌍 Explore how the Women's Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) is being applied to inform better policies and close the gender gap. 👉 bit.ly/3GV0o0Y

🆕 What role can (should) economists play in shaping the future of AI? 📢 Today on #VoxDevTalks w/ Tim Phillips Talk Normal, D. Yanagizawa-Drott (Economics at Zurich) discusses how economists should think about the future of AI: youtube.com/watch?v=tD7-aD…

“Collecting data on women’s empowerment is critical—even if not nationally representative.” Shelton Kanyanda, Malawi’s Commissioner of Statistics, on integrating #WEMNS into national surveys — and why district-level data matters for empowering women. 👉 bit.ly/3GV0o0Y

“Data is not a finish line, it is a starting point.” - Dr Jemimah Njuki, UN Women’s Chief of Economic Empowerment, on the new #WEMNS tool that helps integrate women’s empowerment metrics into national data systems. 👉 bit.ly/3GV0o0Y

📚🌍📈 Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn! 🔗Read more here: on.cgiar.org/4mKjjMn CGIAR IFPRI South Asia IFPRI-Bangladesh IFPRI_Africa IFPRI Malawi IFPRI LAC

📊 IFPRI Malawi Monthly Maize Market Report – May 2025 🌽 Retail maize prices bottomed out in May 📈Prices rose in southern Malawi despite continued imports 💰Maize retailed below the gov’t-set price in 25 of 26 markets 🔗Read the full report: bit.ly/3FHLyKT

🐟 Fisheries are vital to coastal communities' livelihoods & food security. But #ClimateCrisis, pollution, overfishing & other threats make earning an income as a fisher hard. 💡 Why Food and Agriculture Organization's #SocPro4Fish is working to expand #SocialProtection for fishers👇 #UNOC3 #SaveOurOcean

📢 New series alert! The CGIAR Policy Innovations brings you a webinar & dialogue series for evidence-based policymaking. Missed our July 15 session (Youth Jobs in Africa)? Mark your calendar for July 23: Book launch on the Future of Food Systems! bit.ly/40X2GUl IFPRI

Successful 2-day "Social Science & Policy Research" training in Laos (June 25-26)! IWMI representing the CGIAR Policy Innovations science program & NAFRI's PTT empowered 30 researchers (16 women) building capacity and bridging policy-research gaps. CGIAR Rajalakshmi Nirmal