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Keynote Speech: Dr Shenggen Fan, Director General (IFPRI)

Dr Shenggen Fan, Director General of IFPRI

> Keynote Speech: Improving Food and Nutrition Security Information for Better Measurement and Effective Decision-making

> Presentation

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Panel 1 – Measures of global hunger and food insecurity

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> Abstracts of panelists' presentations

Carlo Cafiero	Advances in hunger measurement
Gero Carletto	Coordinate or Perish! Using Household Surveys for the Measurement and Monitoring of Food Security
Derek Headey	Measuring food security in times of crisis

Panel 2 – Building the evidence base for policy and programs: innovative approaches to analysis

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Agnes Quisumbing	Generating evidence on individuals’ experience of food insecurity and vulnerability
Nancy Mock	From complexity to food security decision-support: novel methods of assessment and their role in food security information systems
John Newman	Empirical associations of the adequacies of food, health and care with nutritional outcomes

Panel 3 – Food and nutrition security information - evidence generation is not enough

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Howard White	Understanding the steps between research and policy: ensuring and measuring policy influence
Ricardo César Aparicio Jiménez	Institutionalized evidence-based approaches to policy making: the case of Mexico’s food security index
Edoardo Masset	Use of systematic reviews to understand the impact of programmes and policies on food and nutrition security

The “Improved Global Governance for Hunger Reduction” programme is funded by the European Union with additional resources provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The programme is managed by FAO and collaborates with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP)”