Facilitating Anticipatory Action with Improved Early Warning

26 September 2023. Seminar, Facilitating Anticipatory Action with Improved Early Warning

This seminar took stock of existing early warning, early action systems (EWEAs) and examined whether they provide sufficient guidance to policymakers and decisionmakers keen to enhance anticipatory action and is featured under the IFPRI-AMIS policy seminar series on Making Sense of Food and Agricultural Markets.

• Opening Remarks Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR; Director General, IFPRI
• Global Food Crisis: Where do we Stand and How is the GRFC Servicing Early Warning Systems? Sara McHattie, Global Coordinator of Food Security Information Network (FSIN) (Presentation)
• How to Identify Food Crisis Risks? Early Warning Systems for Global Market Shocks and for acute Food Insecurity Rob Vos, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions (MTI), IFPRI (Presentation)
• What Works and What Does not Work with Existing Early Warning Systems to Inform Preventative Action? Arif Husain, Chief Economist, World Food Programme (WFP)
• Agricultural Market Early Warning Mechanisms for Identifying Global Risks to Food Security Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow IFPRI and Secretary of AMIS (Presentation)
• How can Improvements/Integration of EWEAs better Facilitate Anticipatory Action? Sandra Ruckstuhl, Senior Researcher at International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and co-lead CGIAR initiative on Fragility, Conflict and Migration (FCM)
• Global Network Against Food Crises and Early Warning, Early Action to Address Food Crises Leonard Mizzi, Head, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, European Commission
• Moderator Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI