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Today is #WorldSoilDay 🌱

A recent Food Policy Special Issue—featuring IFPRI and partners—examines fertilizer volatility, soil fertility trends, and policy solutions to help protect farmers and ecosystems from future shocks: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🦋IFPRI is excited to join @bsky.app! Colleagues, partners, friends @cgiar.org and beyond - who's there? 👋 Welcome to our cloud!
December 5, 2024 at 6:11 PM
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. To celebrate this milestone, we will be sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving #foodsystems.

Today, we feature the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade, or IMPACT 🌍
February 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hi! I'm a new migrant to this site. I work on gender, intrahousehold issues, women's empowerment, & economic development at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Curious to know who else is here!
September 27, 2023 at 1:37 AM
Excited to share a new @ifpri @ifpri.org WP: tl;dr - trees are high-return, + encouraging extremely poor households to adopt climate-smart agroforestry practices may be highly beneficial. #econtwitter #econsky
January 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Today, on #IDWGS2026, we highlight the work of @berberkramer.bsky.social, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow.

In this Faces of IFPRI video, Berber shares career advice, what keeps her passionate about her work, and her favorite hobby – triathlons!

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvtJ...
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Faces of IFPRI: Berber Kramer
YouTube video by IFPRI
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February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Cotton seeds (Gossypium spp.; #Malvaceae) contain gossypol, a terpenoid aldehyde, that interferes with some dehydrogenase enzymes. That’s not good for cellular metabolism. #seeds #toxin : IFPRI Milo Mitchell CCBYNCND2 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
March 26, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Our latest “Faces of IFPRI” video features Agnes Quisumbing @agnesq.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, who reflects on 30 years of policy research based on extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. 🌱 🌏

📽️ Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxR...

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Faces of IFPRI: Agnes Quisumbing
YouTube video by IFPRI
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March 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
IFPRI Nonresident Fellow John Hoddinott has been named a 2026 @aaea-economics.bsky.social Fellow.

Congrats on this well-deserved honor, John, & thank you for your enduring contributions to IFPRI and the global development community! 👏
#AAEA #FoodSystems #Nutrition #SocialProtection @cgiar.org
July 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I'm very late on cool young researcher this week, but not giving up yet! Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Hailemariam Ayalew, my colleague @ifpri @ifpri.org, who works on topics related to agriculture + development esp in SSA
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Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh
Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Cited by 225 - Impact Evaluation - Applied Microeconometrics - Development Economics - Agricultural Economics
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February 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is the second video in the “Faces of IFPRI” series, a new series of interviews with IFPRI colleagues around the world, showcasing the diversity of talent, geographies, and research interests across the Institute.

📽️ Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyjp...

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Faces of IFPRI: Oliver Kirui
YouTube video by IFPRI
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March 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
All right, trying Bluesky again after a while. . fascinating new papers on gender-related topics out in EDCC! From my colleagues at IFPRI: cash transfers meaningfully ⬇️ women's engagement in decision-making as well as ⬇️ women's decision-making power
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
September 9, 2024 at 4:44 PM
In 2025, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. To mark this milestone, throughout this year, we will be sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving food systems.

Today, we feature the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) 🌍
March 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New IFPRI Issue Brief: “Gender and age employment gaps within agrifood value chains in Bangladesh and Uganda” hdl.handle.net/10568/162977
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Save the date! 📅March 12⏰9:30AM EDT

📌IFPRI Policy #Seminar: No time to waste: Moving from Commitments to Action on Food Loss and Waste.

🤝Co-organized by IFPRI, @worldresources.bsky.social
& the Embassy of Denmark

🎟️ Register here: bit.ly/FoodWaste-

@cgiar.org #FoodLossAndWaste
March 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With deep sadness, we share the news of the passing of Alberto Valdés, an accomplished agricultural economist and long-standing friend to many of us at IFPRI. He joined IFPRI in 1976 and served as a Program Director of the Food Trade & Food Security Program until 1989. 📰 https://on.cgiar.org/3SjIRpb
In Memoriam: Alberto Valdés (1935–2026)
IFPRI mourns the passing of Alberto Valdés, an accomplished agricultural economist and a long-standing colleague and friend.
on.cgiar.org
August 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Icymi. . .@ifpri is on fire in the latest issue of JDE (well, soon-to-be the Jan 2026 issue of JDE) with six separate papers from 7 different researchers
September 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In this new “Faces of IFPRI” video @oliverkirui.bsky.social, an IFPRI Research Fellow based in Nairobi, Kenya, describes his work in the Sudan Strategy Support Program, shares important advice he received early in his career, and explains how IFPRI has helped him grow professionally.

🧵 👇
March 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What really drives #foodpolicy decisions? 🤔

A new IFPRI blog series will go beyond theory to unpack the #politicaleconomy behind real-world food policy wins and setbacks—through practical case studies.

Read the intro post by @danielleresnick.bsky.social ▶️ www.ifpri.org/blog/what-re... @cgiar.org
What really drives food policy decisions? A new blog series on practical political economy
Case studies can point the way to success.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A new paper in @science.org by Jo Swinnen (IFPRI), Loraine Ronchi (World Bank), & Thomas Reardon (MSU/IFPRI) stresses the critical role of #agrifood value chains in supporting #climate adaptation & #mitigation at the farm level: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧪 #ResearchPublishing #EconSky @cgiar.org
Harness agrifood value chains to help farmers be climate smart
Incentives and structures exist to improve farming practices
doi.org
December 6, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Watch our new video to learn about the work of
@kalraghunathan.bsky.social, an IFPRI Research Fellow based in New Delhi, India, and hear her advice for the next generation of young researchers:

on.cgiar.org/40X4WtU
Faces of IFPRI: Kalyani Raghunathan
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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February 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I was thrilled to see our familiar green @ifpri
logo when I finally made it to Mekele + excited for this field visit!
December 4, 2024 at 2:18 PM
👏IFPRI congratulates Marie Ruel and Jef Leroy for their recent awards from the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) @nutritionorg.bsky.social.

Marie Ruel will be inducted into the 2025 Class of Distinguished Fellows of ASN: on.cgiar.org/3E4Jgog
April 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This hybrid conference will convene the global nutrition community to build knowledge, strengthen advocacy, and sustain nutrition progress in a changing world: www.ifpri.org/event/ifpri-...

#IFPRIonNutrition #MNF2026 @cgiar.org
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September 25, 2026 at 9:33 PM