IFPRI Blog

Bridging science and policy for effective humanitarian action.

Building equity into food systems.

Bridging the gap between research and policymaking.

Productivity erodes amid turmoil.

Assessing impacts on global markets and African consumers.

The power of bundled solutions

Integrating more fruits, vegetables, and other high-quality crops into food systems.

IFPRI researchers on urbanization.

How development organizations think about gender.

A new research agenda.

Building on improvements in Infant mortality.

Starch-heavy diets, the reach of extension instruction, and other issues.

Meeting challenges of the coming growing season and beyond in South America.

IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report on a key paradigm shift.

Avenues to empowerment.

Key steps to strengthen institutions and relationships

Problems of feeding more than 2 million people in a war zone.

Disruptions ahead for some developing countries exporting to the U.S.

Examining the effectiveness of vouchers and marketing information.

Nutritional benefits of enhanced biofortification.

Insights into buying behavior.

Many dimensions of combating climate change.

A study points to reforms.

Improving market incentives.

Enfoques para el desarrollo de políticas del sistema alimentario.

Tools for food system policy development.

Integrating key goals of food system transformation.

Charting economic paths forward.

Creative policy solutions to difficult problems.

Navigating an economic crisis.

Promise for boosting yields and income.

A key staple for low-income consumers in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions.

Our study tested two behavioral interventions—budgeting and sales planning—to understand and mitigate this paradox.

Does the threat of climate change significantly undermine strategies focusing on agriculture?

Insights from the new report by the UN High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition.

Transforming food systems is promising but complex, requiring strong evidence and rigorous evaluations to ensure effective interventions.

Tradeoffs must be carefully managed.

Collaborating to make food systems more inclusive.

New opportunities as mobile phone use grows in farming areas.

Survey insights on production, pests, and marketing.

A new famine warning.

After a reprieve, more dangerous conditions are reemerging.

Surfacing the most promising innovations.

Five key ways to promote adaptation.

More than 20 million face acute food insecurity.

Integrating reforms with global goals.

The downsides of emergency trade measures.

Targeting interventions to benefit public health.

Food imports can make up for shortages if quick action is taken.

The 2024 Global Food Policy Report focuses on the pivotal role of nutrition.

IFPRI’s work in catalyzing innovation.

Key elements to growth.

A new tool developed by IFPRI and IFAD.

Tools for understanding global trends.

Effects of climate change and El Niño.

A contintental summit offers an important opportunity.

Over-processing removes essential nutrients.

Women in rural coffee production face opportunities and obstacles.

What an array of studies shows about a key nutritional challenge

Positive impacts of a program in Kenya.

New data on diets.

Harvest shortfalls caused by severe drought conditions.

With harvests of a key staple falling, some positive signs.

Impacts of shifting market flows.

The struggle to recover amid conflict.

Weather and other factors trigger volatility.

Evolving practices with potential impacts for nutrition.

Country experiences show the way forward.

Evidence-driven policymaking yields progress on key goals.

Overlapping impacts on indigenous communities and a key ecosystem.

Assessing impacts of war and resilience strategies.

Assessing impacts of war and resilience strategies.

Addressing global crises through a gender lens.

Assessing the impacts of recent spikes.

A new analysis shows a deteriorating situation.

Data tools provide key insights in a time of crisis.

Fostering cooperative natural resource management.

Why simplified linear approaches may fall short.

Research on gender and women’s empowerment in food systems and global development is central to IFPRI’s mission. Here we mark International Women’s Day (March 8)—with the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress”—with an account of our continuing efforts to develop and deploy metrics on women’s empowerment in agriculture. The 2015 adoption of Sustainable Development Goal […]

Safety nets can buttress households against climate shocks.

Comprehensive change can yield broad benefits, a new report shows.

New evidence quantifies significant negative health effects.

A mixed picture for prices and food security.

Examining a promising avenue for development programs.

The humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

Benefits of a TV show’s positive messages.

Six months after India introduced a set of export restrictions on rice with the aim of holding down domestic prices, global rice markets continue to feel the impact. The benchmark Thai white rice price (5% broken) has risen 22% since India’s export ban on non-basmati white rice took effect in July 2023 (Figure 1). Global […]

A major research and policy effort transitions to African leadership.

Keeping up global momentum.

The many advantages of traditional food items.

Delay has a range of positive impacts.

Potential fallout from Houthi attacks.

Local effects of global shocks persist.

Impacts of a large-scale approach.

An experiment shows women face disadvantages.

Compelling personal stories as a learning and motivational tool.

The food insecurity situation in the Gaza Strip is becoming increasingly dire. A recent blog of just 10 days ago and based on an assessment by the World Food Programme pointed out that during October and November, 80 percent of the population in Gaza was displaced and more than 80 percent suffered food deficiencies. A […]

Building resilience by diversifying risk.

Helping smallholders tap new technologies.

Soda taxes and warning labels produce results.

Complex challenges for farmers amid a continuing food crisis.

Local impacts of a national development strategy.

Food system impacts of war,

Ongoing market disruptions hit vulnerable populations.

Navigating policy challenges to feed a hungry planet.

Helping farmers purchase and sell livestock.

Global prices have moderated but many countries still face difficulties.

Balancing nutrition and climate.

Introducing the Food Import Vulnerability Index (FIVI).

IFPRI assessments provide key information for policymakers.

A chatbot experiment.

Continuing pressures on food security in low- and middle-income countries.

Guiding agricultural transformation among smallholders.

Research for real-world solutions that can make a difference.

Impacts of an unfolding humanitarian emergency.

This time, market disruptions could have public health benefits.

How food systems fared amid disruption.

Closing the finance gap for food systems.

Fostering cooperative local governance.

New insights for scaling up efforts in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.

Why women are key to building resilience.

New customs duties reverberate in communities.

Addressing the global problem of hidden hunger.

Overcoming challenges to helping smallholders.

Encouraging scientific understanding for sustainability.

Ways to scale innovations for sustainability and resilience.

Twenty years of HarvestPlus programs have a lasting impact.

A meta-analysis shows that broadly, IPV programs work.

This year’s theme: “Water is LIfe, Water is Food, Leave No One Behind.”

A new tool to address the gender data gap in agricultural development.

Navigating the complexities of diet and nutrition solutions.

A study shows changed patterns of deforesation.

Worries mount over continued high prices.

Growing and underappreciated risks.

Documenting a shifting landscape of commerce.

Identifying optimal paths for transformation.

Providing subsidized lunches for 250,000 Nairobi students.

Addressing rising climate risks.

A new project focuses on building resilience.

Stakeholders grapple with rapid change.

Explaining a case of tariff arbitrage.

Links between infrastructure and improved nutrition and health.

Developing the tools of resource management.

A promising approach to micronutrient deficiencies.

Potential limits of in-person interviews.

Potential limits of in-person interviews.

A key connection between water, diets, and public health.

What may happen as trade in wheat and other commodities is interrupted again.

Many problems with a policy common in oil-producing countries.

Will the 2024 13th WTO Ministerial Conference bring real change?

New commodity market risks.

How can trainings help to overcome social and economic barriers?

New problems as a key agricultural trade route is cut off.

Benefits of climate-smart strip-planting.

Refining understanding and management options for a key resource.

New insights into developing country impacts.

A complex resource resists unitary assessments.

A region key to feeding the world faces an era of global crisis.

A region key to feeding the world faces an era of global crisis.

Quinoa, acai, and other foods can expand markets and improve diets.

Changes in nitrogen dioxide emissions reflect migration, other changes.

Shedding light on a key segment of the food system.

Improving nutrition in Bangladesh farming households.

Creating a healthier food environment.

Using videos to test skewed perceptions of improved crop varieties.

Evolving rules on farm subsidies.

Exploring the significance of World Refugee Day and the complex dynamics of global migration.

Assessing how household diets fall short.

The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam and the damage of the ammonia pipeline renew worries about the deal termination.

An experiment suggests survey fatigue can skew results.

The promise of sorghum, kale, and other traditional food items.

Integrating AI into the policy process.

Ways to feed the world and meet Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for carbon reductions.

An expanding toolkit for assessing key gender issues in development projects.

Evaluating the impacts of workfare.

Closing the gender data gap in agricultural development.

Education programs for parents yield continuing benefits.

After a period of relative tranquility, trouble looms.

Launching an Innovation Sprint on Gender and Climate Action.

Strategies and policies to build food system resilience.

Promoting a sustainable and inclusive food, agriculture, and trade transformation.

Strong evidence of the relationship between small-scale irrigation, food security, diet quality, and nutrition.

A key tool in the battle for better nutrition and health.

More war-related agricultural market disruptions.

Advantages of Community-Based Conservation.

A better understanding of changing gender dynamics in agriculture and beyond.

Useful approaches to heading off shocks.

The Ukraine war resurrects an important policy debate.

Testing ways to expand digital financial inclusion.

Charting the post-Soviet rise of two major exporters.

Innovations and other efforts to maximize food preservation from farm to fork.

Analyzing effects on attitudes toward government assistance.

As farmers struggle, production of key export crops remains low.

Effects continue to reverberate around the world and in individual countries.

Key takeaways from the recent event organized by IFPRI South Asia and Research and Information System for Developing Countries.

A nine-country effort to manage a delicate resource.

A nine-country effort to manage a delicate resource.

The diverse benefits of repurposing support programs.

Persistent biases hold back women shop owners.

Positive health and nutrition results persist even in adverse circumstances.

Continuing market stresses from the Russia-Ukraine war.

Practical ways to evaluate and advance women’s empowerment.

Global agriculture contends with major disruptions.

Examining complex relationships around a key resource.

How markets and food systems have fared in a dangerous crisis.

A problem for the growing dairy industry.

How can we transform agrifood systems to be sustainable, inclusive, and resilient for a more food-secure future?

Revisiting a key policy debate in light of high food prices.

Continuing uncertainties for 2023.

Building incentives to foster more effective teaching and learning.

Uncertainties include lingering high domestic food prices in many countries.

Prospects for addressing climate change, food system transformation, and other issues.

Closing gender gaps in agricultural knowledge.

Approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other problems.

A new way to offer targeted extension information.

Developing a tool to assess gender and policymaking.

High inflation threatens nutrition and livelihoods.

Gender roles shift slowly in the post-Soviet era.

Making markets work for the poor.

Challenges and opportunities for women to engage in more profitable work.

Research links high food prices to wasting and stunting.

Focus groups and other approaches help clarify what works.

A key to improving economic prospects in rural areas around the world.

Leveraging expanding cell phone use.

A tenuous food security situation faces shifting pressures.

Impacts of cash assistance programs reach beyond spending power.

Prospects for fostering mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.

Prospects for fostering mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.

Shifting tides of international trade.

Economic programming policies to drive the violence prevention agenda.

Tracking how food and nutrition organizations are doing on internal diversity and inclusion.

Insights into resilience, well-being, and trust in institutions.

Data show a mixed picture for exempted products.

An opportunity for action as the global climate conference gets underway.

Approaches to climate adaptation in a vulnerable region.

Innovations to address current hardships and speed food system transformation.

New stresses on global food security.

New stresses on global food security.

New stresses on global food security.

New stresses on global food security.

New stresses on global food security.

New stresses on global food security.

Confronting wicked problems from the ground up.

Countries grapple with high food prices and persistent hunger and malnutrition.

Future food production depends on addressing gender issues.

Workshops explore how to better support workers.

Seeking big ideas for sustainability.

Continuing fallout from the the Russia-Ukraine war.

The best places for grid-based, solar, and diesel powered equipment.

The importance of digital financial inclusion.

Addressing growing risks from climate change, conflict, and other problems.

Accelerating policies and investments to contend with shocks and build resilience.

Billions of dollars in assistance require a focus on gender.

Benefits of a “nudge” approach.

Addressing a humanitarian disaster without borders.

Effects of lost income and food insecurity linger, particularly for for women, a study shows.

A show set in a maternal health clinic offers perspectives on women’s health.

A show set in a maternal health clinic offers perspectives on women’s health.

Impacts from COVID-19, climate change, and conflicts including the Russia-Ukraine war continue to push more people into food insecurity.

The deal to resume agricultural exports could help alleviate food insecurity and stabilize markets.

The Food Prices for Nutrition project provides new food security indicators.

Strategies for China’s agricultural transformation.

A new phase in understanding how such programs can empower women.

Southeast Asian countries pursue greater regional integration.

Benefits of scaling up integrated pest management.

A pilot program promotes and studies mobile banking.

Steps to address export restrictions and stockholding issues.

Modeling shows lowered GDP and agricultural production for 2022.

Problems for a country that imports 99% of its wheat.

Rising prices and uncertain supplies affect agriculture worldwide.

Ambitious commitments must be backed by action and funding.

A new research initiative takes aim at a major nutrition challenge.

Five key points to improve water sustainability in the 21st century.

An important tool for managing food policy in a time of crisis.

Six policy priorities that can—and should—be implemented now.

Working to improve trade and agrifood systems.

High food prices and shortages pummel an already suffering population.

High prices and supply issues hit an important global food item.

The poor are particularly vulnerable to rising prices of food, vegetable oils, and fertilizers.

The importance of research partnerships.

Widening impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Disruptions in wheat, vegetable oil, and fertilizer markets drive up prices and threaten supplies.

Disruptions in wheat, vegetable oil, and fertilizer markets drive up prices and threaten supplies.

Measures to protect domestic markets have broader impacts.

Do’s and don’ts to avoid collateral damage.

The power of consumer opinion.

Chronic economic disruptions meet the market impacts of a distant war.

Chronic economic disruptions meet the market impacts of a distant war.

Rising global market prices pose the most serious threat.

Rising global market prices pose the most serious threat.

On top of rising costs for consumers, an additional threat to food security.

The poor in developing countries face severe impacts.

When the impacts of one war compound those of another.

When the impacts of one war compound those of another.

Findings from a new IFPRI-World Bank report.

Translation option: Dans un article publié récemment sur ce blog, nous avons analysé comment la propagation de la maladie associée au nouveau coronavirus (COVID-19) peut détériorer l’économie mondiale, entraînant des effets sur   la sécurité alimentaire et aux efforts de réduction de la pauvreté. Nous avons souligné que les répercussions économiques de la pandémie actuelle seront […]

Modeling shows the promise of ag-tech innovation, opening trade, and other changes.

A promising method to gauge agricultural output.

A country heavily dependent on wheat faces supply disruptions and spiking prices.

Steps for limiting damage and building resilience for future shocks.

The importance of bringing innovations to low-income countries.

An essential tool in assessing gender disparities driven by COVID-19, climate change, and other factors.

Potential supply disruptions and price spikes.

Wheat and tomato crops see very different outcomes.