There has been growing emphasis on impact evaluations of programs and policies, but how do those impact evaluations actually lead to change? To answer this question, at @ifpri.org we recently commissioned an impact assessment of our impact evaluations- blog here www.ifpri.org/blog/ifpri-a...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

New blog on our research on overcoming obstacles to digitizing agricultural payments, from a midstream perspective www.ifpri.org/blog/overcom...

Depressed about the Bears loss last night? Or the slide into authoritarianism? Pick yourself up by reading our now published article in the Journal of Development Economics, on transfers and management advice in Malawi w @kateambler.bsky.social & Susie Godlonton www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Your daily reminder that US economic data is of extremely high quality even when compared to other advanced nations and the envy of the world

Bear down!

If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.

🆕 Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @jo-swinnen.bsky.social & Purnima Menon (@ifpri.org @cgiar.org) review the last 50 years of research on food policy – and what it means for the future of food (in)security: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Challenge: Post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.

Indicative of a lot of the economy right now

🆕interactive story on our #blog: 🌱 🔄Shaping strategies for Rwanda’s agricultural transformation: Successes from evidence-informed investments for agriculture-led development. 🖊️ By Maria DiGiovanni, James Warner, and Serge Mugabo. 🔗 www.ifpri.org/blog/shaping... @cgiar.org

New blog up at @ifpri.org with @jo-swinnen.bsky.social on conditions necessary to make agricultural value finance work in Low and Middle Income Countries- part of our new Finance Blog Series www.ifpri.org/blog/agrifoo...

Honestly, the NYT siding with Idi Amin and saying that Indian-Ugandans are not Africans is not something I saw coming.

Hey @nytimes.com can you give me one good reason not to cancel my subscription after publishing this as a “news” article? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

It's blog week around here. Here's a piece on work with @kateambler.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social @mehrabbakhtiar.bsky.social & Eduardo Maruyama on financial innovation in agrifood systems, part of the new @ifpri.org series on Financing Food Systems Transformation www.ifpri.org/blog/four-le...

Today, we're launching a new blog series, "Financing Food Systems Transformation," which will explore the scale of financing needed to make food systems healthier, more equitable, and sustainable. 🧵👇

While you are waiting for the depressing Senate vote, check out our latest @ifpri.org Making a Difference blog on our work helping Rwanda work on agricultural transformation www.ifpri.org/blog/shaping...

Today is Micro-, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises #MSMEDay IFPRI researchers are working to identify solutions to help MSMEs overcome business challenges and deliver nutrient-dense foods to consumers. Learn more in this 🆕 blog by @adebrauw.bsky.social: on.cgiar.org/45Jd4T4 @cgiar.org

Happy MSME day! We highlight some of our @ifpri.org research on MSMEs here: www.ifpri.org/blog/micro-s...

"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...

Blair joining in the ICE protests today www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Hope they give the Pope controlling interest

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

🚀 The 2025 Global Food Policy Report has just launched! As IFPRI marks its 50th anniversary this year, our #GFPR2025 reviews the evolution of policy research: 📰#PressRelease: on.cgiar.org/3Fu2Efa 💻 on.cgiar.org/4mBFfsO 📘 hdl.handle.net/10568/174108 @cgiar.org #IFPRI50

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Teams up 2-0 are 76-6 in nba conference finals. One of those 6: the 1993 Knicks (vs the Bulls)

Everything was better in the old days…

Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast

This is the Bears’ year now, it’s a sign from Rome

It was great to present my work with Jacobus Cilliers and Nour Elashmawy on PDS Lasso in field experiments at BREAD this weekend. Several people requested the slides afterwards, so I have put them up on my webpage - glad people found the talk useful: drive.google.com/file/d/1NFly...

Trump Argues Toy Shortages Easily Overcome By Making Servants Dance

Our latest “Faces of IFPRI” video features Tigist Gedeb, Senior Finance Manager, who discusses her favorite things about working at IFPRI and the projects she is most proud of contributing to in her 23 years at the Institute. 🌱 🌍 📽️ Watch the video here: on.cgiar.org/4mcDVwH #IFPRI50 #FacesofIFPRI

Whiskey Pete’s Signal: ✈️🌊😢🇺🇸⏰4🥃🥃 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Some good reading

Does this make him eligible to be a cabinet secretary? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/n...

If Whiskey Pete does a press availability today, they should ask whether he likes Shedeur Sanders to the Browns with the 35th pick at +160... (what a DUI hire this guy is! Embarrassing and dangerous...)

Since tariffs are high, can we put a massive tariff on this stuff? And triple it if it's coming from the penguins....

Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing theonion.com/trump-opens-...

🙏🏼 Payton wrote: “With deep sorrow, I share that Steve McMichael passed at 5:28 PM after a brave fight with #ALS, surrounded by loved ones. I’m grateful to have been with him in his final moments. Please keep Steve and his family your prayers. 🙏🏽 #Bears”.

True Americans are planting vanilla orchids next to their chicken coops, banana groves, and coffee trees rather than looking for vanilla substitutes www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/04...

Wishing we could include coffee in the “healthy food” (in Fiumicino, taken yesterday)

A Medici statue looks distraught as his same game parlay goes down in flames

Galileo depicted on his tomb looking towards the heavens wondering why he thought the world would not end revolving around a gaudy tasteless social club in south Florida

1688 globe by Vincenzo Coronelli mislabeling the Gulf we all know as the “Gulf of México” (in the Galileo Museum in Firenze)

Are the penguins still paying 10 percent?

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Excited to be in the launch of the new Better Diets for Nutrition Science Program of @cgiar.org in Nairobi

Some initial analysis of the new US tariffs on agriculrural trade from @ifpri.org trade team www.ifpri.org/blog/how-rec... bottom line is a contraction of ag trade of 3.3-4.7% with GDP declines throughout the world