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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), one of fifteen CGIAR research centers, helps to improve the lives in developing countries by encouraging more productive, sustainable maize and wheat farming. CIMMYT aims to reducing food insecurity and malnutrition, climate change and environmental destruction. CIMMYT, and its partnerships, help to build and strengthen a new generation of national agricultural research and extension services in maize- and wheat-growing nations.

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Publications

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Conference Proceedings

Navigating Sudan’s conflict: Research insights and policy implications: Proceedings of a conference

2024Ahmed, Mosab; Abushama, Hala; Siddig, Khalid; Kirui, Oliver K.; Dorosh, Paul A.; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
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Navigating Sudan’s conflict: Research insights and policy implications: Proceedings of a conference

This report synthesizes the key discussions and outcomes of the “Navigating Sudan’s Conflict: Research Insights and Policy Implications” conference, held on March 5, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya. Convening a diverse group of experts in research, development, and humanitarian efforts, the conference aimed to explore actionable solutions for the socioeconomic challenges triggered by Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Participants at the conference delved into the conflict’s adverse impacts on agriculture, markets, employment, and food security, as well as its wider regional impacts. Notably, the conference findings underscore the urgent need for supporting smallholder farmers, stabilizing markets, generating employment opportunities, and enhancing agricultural productivity within a comprehensive recovery strategy. Furthermore, conference participants stressed the importance of innovative data gathering, collaborative policy formulation, international support, and coordination to ensure effective interventions. This report succinctly presents the interventions discussed in the conference’s research and panel discussion sessions, particularly the pivotal insights offered in each to guide policy that will build peace, strengthen resilience, and relaunch and accelerate human and economic development efforts in Sudan.

Year published

2024

Authors

Ahmed, Mosab; Abushama, Hala; Siddig, Khalid; Kirui, Oliver K.; Dorosh, Paul A.; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

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Ahmed, Mosab; Abushama, Hala; Siddig, Khalid; Kirui, Oliver; Dorosh, Paul; and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2024. Navigating Sudan’s conflict: Research insights and policy implications: Proceedings of a conference. Sudan SSP Conference Proceedings. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140775

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Sudan

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Africa; Northern Africa; Armed Conflicts; Data Collection; Policy Innovation; Food Security; Agriculture; Resilience; Markets

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English

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Open Access

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Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Working Paper

What might be at stake? El Niño, global price shocks and food security in Nepal

2023Dorosh, Paul A.; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Koirala, Pankaj; Timsina, Krishna; Krupnik, Timothy J.
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What might be at stake? El Niño, global price shocks and food security in Nepal

Over the past decades, climate change has brought about numerous detrimental consequences for agricultural production in many countries, posing a substantial challenge to the economic well being of farmers while affecting national and international economies. Meteorological data specifically indicates that extreme weather events are occurring with unprecedented frequencies, intensities, and durations. This includes events associated with variations in the El Niño – Southern Oscillation of ocean currents, such as unusually dry weather in June through August in Nepal and other parts of South Asia. For example, during the El Niño year of 1992, a particularly severe drought occurred in Nepal, contributing in part to a 17.7 percent fall in rice production relative to the prior trend. Current indications are that another El Niño – related drought may already be underway in 2023 and into 2024. With the extreme weather events, global economies have experienced a number of recent shocks – for example those associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and conflicts in countries such as the Ukraine and Russia that are important exporters of agricultural inputs and goods. As such, this research note explores the implications of a range of agricultural productivity shocks including but not limited to those resulting from a possible El Niño-related drought in 2023 and extending into early 2024 (coinciding with the monsoon and post-monsoon seasons).

Year published

2023

Authors

Dorosh, Paul A.; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Koirala, Pankaj; Timsina, Krishna; Krupnik, Timothy J.

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Dorosh, Paul A.; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Koirala, Pankaj; Timsina, Krishna; and Krupnik, Timothy J. 2023. What might be at stake? El Niño, global price shocks and food security in Nepal. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Paper December 2023. Kathmandu, Nepal: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137060

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Nepal

Keywords

Asia; Southern Asia; Climate Change; Agricultural Production; Economic Aspects; Extreme Weather Events; El Niño; Shock; Drought

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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ICTforAg 2023: Cultivating inclusion

2023Koo, Jawoo; Goss, Courtney
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ICTforAg 2023: Cultivating inclusion

ICTforAg is an annual convening where agricultural stakeholders and technology experts come together to share knowledge, find solutions, and form partnerships to address challenges in agri-food systems across low- and middle-income countries. The main goal of ICTforAg is to grow communities and catalyze meaningful conversations, insights, and collaborations, increase participation of participants from the developing world, promote knowledge sharing and learning, and inspire practitioners to develop inclusive and sustainable ICT solutions. ICTforAg has a strong history since 2015 and owes its success to the contributions made by various organizations to build this community. In 2023, CGIAR and DevGlobal, in partnership with USAID Feed the Future and DAI Digital Frontiers, jointly implemented ICTforAg 2023 as a global online conference on November 7-9 with 145 speakers across 40 sessions. Out of the 2,608 individuals who registered for the event, a total of 1,778 attendees (constituting 68% of registrants) participated over the three days. In addition to the main sessions, the conference also featured the Expo, virtual exhibition space that allowed various organizations from academia, research, and the private sector to showcase their innovations interactively, the Inspire Challenge, a new Pay-for-Results program intended to increase women’s participation in digital agri-food advisory services and programs, the ICTforAg+ Satellite Events, a series of locally-led satellite events in four countries (Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, and India), and the ICTforAg Learning Network, an online platform designed to support the collaboration amongst the global ICTforAg community of practice.

Year published

2023

Authors

Koo, Jawoo; Goss, Courtney

Citation

Koo, Jawoo; and Goss, Courtney. 2023. ICTforAg 2023: Cultivating inclusion. Digital Innovation Technical Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Keywords

Stakeholders; South-south Cooperation; Inclusion; Information and Communication Technologies; Conferences

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Digital Innovation

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Brief

Events

Virtual Event - Building back better: How can public food and agricultural research institutions be strengthened and rebuilt after the COVID-19 pandemic?
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February 2, 2021, 9:30 – 11:00 am

Virtual Event – Building back better: How can public food and agricultural research institutions be strengthened and rebuilt after the COVID-19 pandemic?

How can public food and agricultural research institutions be strengthened and rebuilt after the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Blogs

What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
IFPRI Blog
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January 11, 2022

What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?

By Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere, and David Spielman

Parsing sometimes contradictory responses in household surveys.

Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda
IFPRI Blog
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May 08, 2020

Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda

By Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere, and David Spielman

A study shows that viewing videos on farming techniques has a range of gender equity benefits.

Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers
IFPRI Blog
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January 16, 2020

Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers

By Joshua Masinde

A new study uses spatial interpolation models to estimate local fertilizer prices where data are unavailable.

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