Publications
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Journal Article
Famine in Gaza, questions for research and preventive action
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Brief
Outsource agrifood service MSMEs facilitating pivoting by fruits & vegetables farmers, wholesalers, and retailers
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Journal Article
Food systems transformation requires strategic attention to political economy
Blogs
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Famine in Gaza
A new analysis shows a deteriorating situation.
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The path forward on global food system transformation
Comprehensive change can yield broad benefits, a new report shows.
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We must build food system resilience before the next crisis
Useful approaches to heading off shocks.
Events
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Famines and Fragility: Making humanitarian, developmental, and peacebuilding responses work
Virtual Event: June 11, 2024 – 9:30 AM- 11:15 AM EDT. This seminar will take stock of what we know of key drivers about protracted food crises and persistent fragility and about the obstacles to successful HDP action.
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Tackling the Hidden Costs of our Food Systems
Hybrid Event: June 6, 2024 at 9:30am-11:00am EDT. This event will have a discussion on the hidden costs of food systems and the remedies to reduce economic burdens, while moving toward more sustainable, health-promoting, and socially inclusive food systems.
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Understanding the New Dynamics of Agrifood Trade, Perspectives by Pascal Lamy
Hybrid Event: May 30, 2024 at 2:30pm-4:00pm EDT. Please join us for a lecture by IFPRI Board Chair Pascal Lamy, a foremost expert in international trade matters, who served as the European Union’s Trade Commissioner and as the World Trade Organization’s Director General. The lecture will be followed by comments from a panel of international trade experts and a Q&A session.
News
The 2024 Global Food Policy Report Stresses Urgent Need for Transformative Action to Achieve Sustainable Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition
Washington DC, May 29, 2024: In the face of growing challenges posed by unhealthy diets, all forms of malnutrition, and environmental constraints, the 2024 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) — released today by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) — underscores the importance of transforming complex global food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for all. Progress […]
NITI Aayog and IFPRI sign Statement of Intent to strengthen policy frameworks for agricultural transformation and rural development
This press release was distributed by the Press Information Bureau, Government of India The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) signed a Statement of Intent (SoI), aiming to fortify policy and program frameworks contributing to India’s developmental objectives. The five-year SoI grants IFPRI a broad mandate to […]
The IPC expands global partnership to further tackle food insecurity and malnutrition – IFPRI, UNDP, World Bank and WHO
November 16, 2023, Rome — The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative reaches a new milestone today as it expands its global partnership to include four new partners – the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) – and establishes […]
Research
Awards
- 2021 AAEA Quality of Communication Award for his book with A4NH Director John McDermott, COVID-19 and global food security.
- 2018-2021 IAAE Honorary Life Members Award
- 2019 Book Award from the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) for his book “The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).”
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Göttingen, 2017
- Outstanding Article in Applied Economic Policy and Perspectives 2015 (Best AEPP paper in 2015 awarded by AAEA)
- President, International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2012–2015
- Quality of Policy Communication Award of the European Association of Agricultural Economics, 2014 (with Kym Anderson and Gordon Rausser for paper “Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets”, in Journal of Economic Literature)
- Methusalem Research Award 2015–2023 (for the KU Leuven’s most distinguished researchers)
- President-elect, International Association of Agricultural Economists, 2009–2012
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Nitra, 2012
- Fellow of the American Association of Agricultural and Applied Economists, 2012
- President, Beeronomics Society, 2011
- Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, 2009
- Methusalem Research Award 2008–2015 (for the KU Leuven’s most distinguished researchers)
- Francqui Chair, University of Gent, 2009, KU Leuven Centre of Excellence Award 2005
- Quality of Research Discovery Award of the American Agricultural Economics Association, 2004 (with Scott Rozelle for outstanding paper “Success and Failure of Reforms: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture” in Journal of Economic Literature)
- International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium PhD Dissertation Award 1993 (for PhD thesis “Essays on the Political Economy of Agricultural Policies”)
- G.F. Warren Award (for outstanding publication “A Positive Theory of Agricultural Protection”), Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University 1992
- Michele Sicca Fellowship of the Cornell Western Societies Program 1990
- Joyce Graduate Fellowship of the (US) National Agricultural Biotechnology Council 1989
- Belgian American Educational Foundation Honorary Fellowship 1988
- Dissertation Award of the Alumni Association of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, KU Leuven, 1985 (for MSc Dissertation)