Isabelle Osman
Executive Assistant in the Office of the Chief Scientist
Executive Assistant in the Office of the Chief Scientist
The next livestock disease outbreak rarely announces itself. It begins quietly: a sick animal at a market, a delayed vaccination, a weather shift that changes where disease-carrying vectors thrive.
In 2025, as IFPRI marked its 50th anniversary, it commissioned a review titled Taking Stock: Impacts of 50 Years of Policy Research at IFPRI to evaluate its standing as an international research institution and the influence and impact of its policy research and capacity-strengthening activities.
Natural language processing (NLP), a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses computational techniques to interpret, analyze, and generate human language, encompasses a range of tasks and techniques.
Over the last three years, the My Farm Trees project has evolved from a bold idea into a transformative model for forest-landscape ecosystem restoration, socio-economic empowerment, climate action and improved livelihoods.
The Himalayan Agroecology Initiative (HAI) continued its state-level engagements with consultations across three different states in India, seeking to strengthen and refine the draft roadmaps that will soon guide the thinking and action of high-level decision-makers and key stakeholders toward enhancing food systems resilience in the country.
Over the last five years, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT has made significant strides in transforming the food systems landscape in Vietnam. Through the Food Environment and Consumer Behavior (FECB) research team, the Alliance and national partners continued to accelerate their efforts to transcend changes across the Southeast Asian region.