November 7, 2025 Seminar | IFPRI Program / Country Event Keynote speakers Kwaw Andam | Country Program Leader, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Sanja Pepae | Senior Economist, Department of National Planning and Monitoring (DNPM) Date: Friday, 7 November 2025 | Time: 12:30–1:30 PM (Port Moresby) | 1:30–2:30 PM (Canberra) Locations: The International Food […]
Adanced CGE modelling workshop with PNG’s Department of National Planning and Monitoring and Department of Treasury
The International Food Policy Research Institute conducted a weeklong capacity strengthening event at its headquarters in Washinton D.C, from June 28th to August 6th, 2025. The workshop was attended by policy analysts from Papua New Guinea’s Department of National Planning and Monitoring and the Department of Treasury. The session focused on refining macroeconomic models and […]
Interagency technical working group of NFSP Reformulation meeting in Port Moresby
July 7, 2025 In July 2025, the Interagency Technical Working Group of the National Food Security Policy (NFSP) Reformulation held its meeting in Port Moresby that focused on discussing the updates and the procedure required to reformulate the upcoming Papua New Guinea National Food Security Policy. The meeting was hosted by the Department of Agriculture […]
Presentation of declining purchasing power of minimum wage in urban PNG- Port Moresby
May 7, 2025 PNG’s minimum wage has been K3.50 per hour since 2016, but the PNG government recently announced that it will rise to K5.00 per hour, effective January 2026. On 7 May 2025, Ms. Kristi Mhart from IFPRI was invited by the Institute of National Affairs (INA) to present recent findings on the declining […]
Workshops for testing and refining the Food Security Simulator Papua New Guinea (FSS-PNG)
April 28, 2025 IFPRI conducted a series of two-day workshops on testing and refining the FSS-PNG. These workshops introduced the FSS-PNG and provided an opportunity for participants to collaborate on the further development of the tool. Topics included food security analysis, conducting microsimulations, demonstrations of the types of scenarios the FSS-PNG can simulate food security […]
