IFPRI

📣IFPRI seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Research Fellow I/II in its Markets, Trade and Institutions Unit.

The position is based in Africa (Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia preferred) or Washington, DC.

Learn more here: on.cgiar.org/4f1DP7M

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How accurately do subjective poverty rankings identify households most in need?

A new study by Immacolata Ranucci, @KibromAbay, and Luca Tiberti compares self-, peer-, and community leader-based rankings with conventional welfare measures in Ethiopia, revealing challenges for targeting social protection.

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📱 For many rural farmers—and especially for women—access to digital tools is shaped by literacy, phone ownership, language, and entrenched socio-cultural norms.

In this recent blog, Nelson Mganga, Gertrude Nalubinga, and @EliotJonesGarc1 outline the institutional arrangements and technical capacities that must come together for women farmers to meaningfully participate in AI advisory services and why intentional, gender‑responsive design is essential: on.cgiar.org/4yWCAyT

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How effective are context-specific social and behavior change (SBC) interventions in improving child diet in Ethiopia?

This study by @TaddeseZerfu, Amare Abera Tareke, Meron Girma, Tirsit Genye, Bedassa Tessema, Frezer Zewdu, Melaku Bayable, Archana Sarkar, @TessemaMasresha, and Aregash Samuel Hafebo found that SBC interventions significantly improved dietary diversity and child growth outcomes in Ethiopia, although effects varied across regions: doi.org/10.1111/mcn.70…

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⚖️ IFPRI's fieldwork is generating an updated and transparent collection of commodity-specific measurements that anyone working with data on food consumption and production can use to turn everyday quantities into reliable statistics.

This photo essay by Cynthia Kazembe @Cee_00 and Lara Cockx follows that journey: on.cgiar.org/4idTpir

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