Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia,” by Bernard, Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social), Orkin, Schinaia, and Taffesse (@astaffesse.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
I had you penciled in for Skeleton in 2030
📢 Launching the Sustainable Evidence Infrastructure Commitment — a global effort to strengthen how impact evaluation evidence is produced, shared and used.
🤝 Signatories: @cega-uc.bsky.social, COS, IDinsight, @ifpri.org, 3ie and PIRC.
Read commitment: bit.ly/4aqj5WA
Why it matters: bit.ly/4aLQxWG
🆕 #Blog 50th Anniversary Impact Assessment Report: IFPRI’s capacity sharing work
🖊️ By Maria DiGiovanni, Peter Hazell, and Frank Place.
🔗 Read more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3OALqAZ
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In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
🆕 #Blog 50th Anniversary Impact Assessment Report: Highlights of IFPRI’s policy impact
🖋️ By Peter Hazell, Frank Place, and Maria DiGiovanni.
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Boulder
If I had enough followers I’d do a poll to see what people’s willingness to pay to see the Melania movie is, starting from $0 and going down to say -$100
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
Only if you can dig yourself out! 💀
To be fair I doubt that they own a plow truck
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
Thanks for pointing this paper out Michael- I recall talking with field supervisors about going into those areas for surveys… will read for sure!
Starting in 18 minutes…
🔔 TODAY @ 9:30 AM EST 🔔
Join us in-person or at any of these links:
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📢TMRW @ 9:30AM EST
📌 Reducing Food Loss and Waste: A Food Systems Perspective
📅 Jan.13 🕘9:30 AM – 11:00 AM EST
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Your luxury saturated fat consumption - approved by the current government!- has gotten easier
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
🐻⬇️!!!
New blog on @cgiar.org Better Diets and Nutrition research- @bvancampenhout.bsky.social et al. show a combination of improved screening & incentives for fat content -> higher quality milk deliveries in Uganda, especially in the dry season www.ifpri.org/blog/when-mi... @ifpri.org @cimmyt.bsky.social
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Fantastic…
Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, has been caught using fake AI-generated citations in their textbooks
3️⃣ days until this special event:
📌 Shaping Food Policy in a Changing World: Research Priorities for Greater Impact
📆 December 15, 2025, from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm EST
📍 This event will take place in-person at IFPRI HQ and online.
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Hola Arepa on my list for the next time I’m visiting my son in the Twin Cities :)
Wait when did Messi get his Scottish passport?
