Season's Greetings from IFPRI! Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear Mr. Sagar, As 2014 comes to an end, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your support and collaboration during this exciting and fulfilling year. Nutrition figured prominently on the global stage and was a centerpiece of three signature publications: the Global Food Policy Report, which calls for an end to hunger and undernutrition by 2025; the Global Hunger Index, which features an essay on hidden hunger; and the inaugural Global Nutrition Report, launched at ICN2, which provides a comprehensive narrative on global and country-level progress on all forms of nutrition. Technology options for sustainable food production continued to be highly debated in 2014. IFPRI helped move the conversation along with two publications: Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity, which provides guidance on various technology strategies to fight hunger as competition for resources grows, and the Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development, which highlights the ubiquitous role of smallholders in Africa. The WTO negotiation and national trade policy finally made significant progress with India’s approval of the Trade Facilitation Agreement. IFPRI provided much-needed analytical support toward this effort. IFPRI continued its strong presence in countries and regions. The country strategy support programs in Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Pakistanassisted with countries’ transformation agendas in agricultural and rural areas.  IFPRI held two signature events in Africa: the 17th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, hosted by the Dakar office, and the annual ReSAKSS conference, hosted by the Addis Ababa office. Both events brought together hundreds of policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders within and outside of Africa to review progress, identify policy and investment gaps, and set future agendas for achieving more open trade, stronger agricultural growth, and enhanced food security and nutrition. Gender is a cross-cutting theme that underpins much of our work. IFPRI, USAID, and OPHI published the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index: Baseline Report, which covers 13 countries from five regions. Finally, we held another successful 2020 Policy Consultation and Conference, focused on building resilience for food and nutrition security, in Addis Ababa in May. We hope that IFPRI’s work contributes to our mutual quest to end hunger and undernutrition, and look forward to collaborating with you in 2015. Best wishes from our family to yours, Shenggen Fan