Events

Date/Time: July 8, 2024 / 9:00 AM – 11:30 PM Location: Cairo, Egypt Venue: Fairmont Nile City, Downtown, Cairo Background Despite the increasing global efforts to address hunger and malnutrition, unhealthy diets are still a key driver for malnutrition worldwide, in which 3 billion people can’t afford healthy diets. The need to transform our food […]

Digitalization has the potential to revolutionize smallholder agriculture by providing farmers with access to valuable information, resources, markets, and tools. From real-time weather updates and crop management tools to price monitoring and direct market access, digital tools are set to transform the way farmers work, leading to improvements in farmers, productivity, efficiency, and livelihood.

Vulnerable communities and households in the Arab world and the MENA region face a myriad of challenges ranging from protracted conflicts, resource scarcity, and severe inequality that further the effects of these challenges. Keeping the lenses of the SDGs; the regions’ gains in sustainable development indicators are scarce and often overturn, leaving the most vulnerable communities in the Arab world and MENA experiencing various faces poverty. 

Stemming from the core belief in the crucial role rigorous evidence can play to advise climate risk related policies and programs, IFPRI aims to host a panel discussion during MENA Climate Week that brings researchers, implementing partners, and government officials to forge partnerships, share experiences and lesson learned, and bridge evidence with policymaking to better inform decisions and policies related to sustainable rural livelihoods and climate risks in the MENA region.