Yes, G-CAN! Endorsing Food Security With Gender-Responsive and Climate-Resilient Agriculture
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Join this special webinar and discover how the Feed the Future Gender-Sensitive Climate-Smart Agriculture for Nutrition (G-CAN) initiative aims to support USAID on the new Global Food Security Strategy.
Specifically, G-CAN plans to achieve the following outputs:
- A framework for integrating gender and nutrition into climate smart agriculture decision-making to support the three objectives of the Global Food Security Strategy 2017-2021
- A process and template for Feed the Future focus countries to help identify and understand elements of climate responsive agriculture that integrates nutrition and gender
- Enhanced use of Feed The Future open data to improve the understanding of climate change-agriculture-gender-nutrition linkages for better program planning
- Tailored research and analyses and summaries of existing and new research on these linkages
Webinar participants will be able to weigh in on the draft framework, share insights on the intersection of these three themes based on their own experiences, and identify critical research gaps that are needed to support their own development.
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Speakers
Claudia Ringler
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Claudia Ringler is Deputy Division Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). She also manages IFPRI’s Natural Resource Theme and co-leads the Institute’s water research program. She works on enhancing resiliency of human and natural systems as a flagship co-lead under the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). Over the last two decades, Claudia’s research has focused on the implications of and trade-offs between growing natural resource scarcity and water, energy and food security in developing counties. She has more than 100 publications in these areas. Claudia holds an M.A. degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany.
Elizabeth Bryan
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Elizabeth Bryan is a Senior Research Analyst in the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) where she is conducts policy-relevant research on sustainable agricultural production, natural resource management, small-scale irrigation, climate change adaptation and gender. Her current work focuses on trade-offs and synergies across the intersection of climate-smart agricultural production, nutrition, gender, and the environment. Prior to joining IFPRI, Elizabeth worked as a consultant for the Poverty Reduction Group of the World Bank and the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has published numerous articles on climate change adaptation, gender and climate change and trade-offs in biomass energy uses in sub-Saharan Africa. Elizabeth holds an M.A. in International Development with a concentration in Development Economics from American University.
Jessica Fanzo
Johns Hopkins University
Jessica Fanzo is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University. She also serves as the Director of the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Jessica was an Assistant Professor of Nutrition in the Institute of Human Nutrition and Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University. She also served as the Senior Advisor of Nutrition Policy at the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute. Prior to coming to academia, Jessica held positions in the United Nations World Food Programme and Bioversity International, both in Rome, Italy. Prior to her time in Rome, she was the Senior Nutrition Advisor to the Millennium Development Goal Center at the World Agroforestry Center in Kenya. Her area of expertise is on the linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and the environment in the context of sustainable and equitable diets and livelihoods. She was the first laureate of the Carasso Foundation’s Sustainable Diets Prize in 2012 for her work on sustainable food and diets for long-term human health. Jessica has a Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of Arizona.
Timothy Thomas
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Timothy Thomas is a Research Fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He currently leads the IMPACT modeling team. IMPACT is a global economic model which evaluates the impact of climate change on agriculture, food availability and under-nutrition, taking into account GDP, population and change in agricultural technologies. He was one of the lead authors of three books on climate change and agriculture in Africa and has done similar studies for the Pacific Islands, Latin America and Central Asia. Prior to coming to IFPRI, Tim worked a number of years at the World Bank, studying tropical deforestation and rural development. Tim has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Maryland College Park.
Meredith Soule
USAID Bureau for Food Security
Meredith Soule is the Technical Division Chief within the USAID Bureau for Food Security's Country Strategy and Implementation Office. In this role, she provides strategic direction for BFS investments in nutrition, gender, climate smart agriculture and agricultural innovation systems. Before joining USAID, she worked at the USDA Economic Research Service and the International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Nairobi. She holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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