Ensuring a Focus on Women and Girls in the Global Food Crisis Response

26 October 2022 Ensuring a Focus on Women and Girls in the Global Food Crisis Response. This is the seventh event in an IFPRI seminar series on Food and Fertilizer Price Trends: Impacts on global food security. Co-organized by United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Feed the Future Initiative, IFPRI, and the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.

The International Food Policy Research Institute’s Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN), with support from USAID, recently convened a roundtable of concerned donors, academics, and practitioners and the recommendations were published in a Nature Comment.

• Jennifer Horsfall, RFS Global Food Security manager and Feed the Future Crisis Team Lead, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Opening Remarks 
• Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Scientist, IFPRI - Recommendations from the Roundtable on Addressing the Gendered Impacts of the Global Food Crisis
• Hannah Wachira, Champion Farmer, GROOTS, Kenya Perspective from the Ground

Panel: Responding to the Gendered Impacts

• Sahar Alnouri, Senior Director for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, Mercy Corps
• Nicole Lefore, Director, Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture in College Station, Texas A&M University
• Reema Nanavaty, Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
• David Laborde Debucquet, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Nicoline de Haan, Platform Director, CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform - Reflections
• Moderator Vivian Atakos, Global Engagement and Policy Specialist, CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform, International Potato Center (CIP)