
Johan Swinnen
@jo_swinnen
Director General of @IFPRI and Global Director of Systems Transformation at @CGIAR. Working together toward a world free of hunger and malnutrition. #OneCGIAR
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The latest issue of the #IFPRIInsights #newsletter is out, featuring: 🎉 IFPRI's 50th Anniversary 🆕 CGIAR Research Portfolio 📈 ️ Food Security Simulator 🎫 Events, Blogs & more: ifpri.org/newsletter/ifp… CGIAR IFPRI_Africa IFPRI South Asia IFPRI-Bangladesh @IFPRI_Mena IFPRI LAC










📢 Tomorrow at #CGIARScienceWeek: 📍 A New Chapter for CAADP: The Kampala CAADP Declaration and CAADP Strategy and Action Plan, 2026-2035 🗓️ April 10, 12:30-2:30pm EAT 🗨️ IFPRI Speakers include Johan Swinnen, Steven Were Omamo, and Samuel Benin 🔗 on.cgiar.org/3EeuawF CGIAR



It was great to meet with the WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala alongside my IFPRI colleagues JoeGlauber--IFPRI | @jwglauber.bsky.social and Ruth Hill this week to discuss the work IFPRI is doing on agricultural trade negotiations with the @WTO. I look forward to many more productive discussions.



📚In this 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI', we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy 📰 which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use 🌱, soil health management 🌍, and economic shocks 📉 in various agricultural systems: on.cgiar.org/45Pnz7b

Enjoyed an engaging trip to Beijing last week for the joint launch of #GFPR2025 and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences flagship report. It was also a pleasure to meet with the IFPRI Beijing office, former DG Shenggen Fan, and leaders of the DRC, CAU, and IAED.


Today, we're launching a new blog series, "Financing Food Systems Transformation," which will explore the scale of financing needed to make food systems healthier, more equitable, and sustainable. 🔎 In this first post, Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, Geeta Sethi & Johan Swinnen lay out key funding

