I wrote an IFRPI blog summarizing expert views on the status of the #SDG2 #ZeroHunger. Check it out! 👇.

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🖥️ Can #AI help predict #food crises? 🌽. Early signs point to yes! 🆕 AI-informed model trained to predict the % of people in food crisis. 🔵 Sensitivity: 94% of food crises identified.🟢 Precision: 78% of cases experience food crisis within 12 months. Links below @IFPRI @CGIAR

Revise & Resubmit: Life goals edition. #EconTwitter

💥 Can ag modernization spur conflict? Yes, finds 🆕 #openaccess paper in JDE. 🧑‍🌾 Following intro of GE soy seed & market reforms, #Brazil municipalities w/ more soy-producing potential (1 SD more) saw increases (54%) in land occupations. Paper link:

🌞📘Summer book recommendation📖. WB Impact Blog reviews book on African music’s global cultural influence. Perfect for someone who loves music 🎹, admires the Malian blues 🎸, & likes global-spanning non-fiction🌍. Book: Review:

Such evidence is being used by @worldfish.bsky.social to advocate for discussion of small-scale fisheries at the UN Ocean Conference #UNOC3 wrapping up today in Nice, France. They also highlight the challenge of balancing global food security and environmental sustainability.

🐟 A recent @NaturePortfolio on small-scale fisheries estimates that they globally contribute: .1️⃣ 40% of fisheries’ catch.2️⃣ 2.3 billion people with key nutrients.3️⃣ 60.2 million jobs, of which 20.9 million go to women.4️⃣ 491.8 million livelihoods. Link:

🐮How many cows do you have? 🐮. 🆕 #openaccess JDE article (link 👇) finds that direct counting (vs. household reports) of livestock in #Ethiopia increased the survey's measurement of total livestock ownership by 39%! . @KibromAbay & co-authors

How to design studies that scale up? 🤔. Michael Kremer (@UChicago, @DILatUChicago) presented this today at @IFPRI: Among early projects at former USAID DIV, those that scaled successfully were usually:.💲 Cheaper: unit cost <$3USD.🚷 Did NOT sell to consumers.💻 Evaluated by RCT

🚦How it started vs. how it’s going. 😃IFPRI’s first 40 years (1975-2015): Unprecedented progress in reducing hunger and poverty. 🫣Last 10 years (2015-2025): Stagnation and reversal. Still more work to do!. Live update from @IFPRI #GFPR2025. Watch here:

RT @CGIAR_EMD: 🌍 Ending hunger by 2030 needs urgent action—only 5 years left for #SDG2. 👥 Global collaboration.🍽️ Food systems reform.📊 Da….

Tomorrow @IFPRI launches the 2025 Global Food Policy Report #GFPR2025. Since 2020, each report has a central theme on a global priority. This year, it's "Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World". Register to attend in-person or online:

Link: Paper goes further using climate models to project that “Under models forecasting more frequent droughts… CHW adoption could reduce all-season infant mortality by between 52% and 65%”, making it an important adaptive investment for #climatechange.

🆕 #openaccess paper in JDE by @bjorkmanmartina, @TCarnap, @a_guariso, & Svensson shows how #CHWs in #Uganda help mediate weather shocks. 👶“The risk of infant death increases following low growing-season rainfall, but access to community #healthcare reduces this risk by 46%.”

Learned a new word today: polycrisis. Def: multiple, simultaneous, interconnected crises. Ex: Global food security faces a polycrisis, from conflict, climate change, and aid shortages. The more you know! 💫.

RT @vox_dev: 🆕 What broad lessons have we learned from 115 studies on unconditional cash transfers?. Today on VoxDev, @TommasoCrosta, @dean….

Insightful @vox_dev podcast following @WorldBank's claim that 🌍 needs 780 million more jobs in the next 10 yrs. 👩‍🏭 Research shows that improving worker safety, reducing on-the-job hazards & enhancing worker voice can increase productivity📈 & profits 💵while reducing poverty.

“The share of the global population living in extreme poverty fell dramatically from an estimated 44% in 1981 to 9% in 2019”📉Mostly over lifetimes, not over generations. I recommend "How Poverty Fell" @PaulFNiehaus @vinnyarmentano & T Vogl. 📄: 📺:👇.

What reduces #stunting in children under 5? New paper draws lessons from 10 LMIC success stories @exemplarshealth. Figure below shows how most countries analyzed saw a reduction in stunting inequity over time. Good settings to find a policy experiment?.