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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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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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Climate change and food security in Africa’s drylands

2024Ghanem, Hafez; Ehui, Simeon; Omamo, Steven Were; Jenane, Chakib
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Climate change and food security in Africa’s drylands

Year published

2024

Authors

Ghanem, Hafez; Ehui, Simeon; Omamo, Steven Were; Jenane, Chakib

Citation

Ghanem, Hafez; Ehui, Simeon; Omamo, Steven Were; and Jenane, Chakib. 2024. Climate change and food security in Africa’s drylands. In Climate Change and Sustainable Agro-Ecology in Global Dryland, eds. A. S. El-Beltagy, R. Lal, and Kauser A. Malik. Chapter 8, p. 161-185. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800624870.0008

Country/Region

Senegal; Gambia; Mauritania; Guinea; Mali; Burkina Faso; Niger; Chad; Cameroon; Nigeria

Keywords

Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Climate Change; Food Security; Poverty Reduction; Resilience

Language

English

Access/Licence

Limited Access

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https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800624870.0008 Source record

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Book Chapter

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Improving resource targeting in Niger: Joint financial analysis and food system mapping

2024Ulimwengu, John M.; Gbossa, Nadine
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Improving resource targeting in Niger: Joint financial analysis and food system mapping

This policy brief combines the results of a food system mapping exercise with an analysis of financial flows into Niger’s food system from 2019 to 2022 to inform policymaking for food system transformation. The food system mapping reveals several critical points of failure, from low agricultural productivity and inefficient supply chains to poor nutritional outcomes and environmental degradation. Analysis of domestic and international financial flows to the food system reveals that climate adaptation and nutrition are underfunded areas. Understanding these weaknesses can help policymakers and development partners take a more coordinated and strategic approach to addressing the challenges facing Niger’s food system and can inform more effective resource allocation, ensuring that resources support long-term food security and sustainability.

Year published

2024

Authors

Ulimwengu, John M.; Gbossa, Nadine

Citation

Ulimwengu, John M.; and Gbossa, Nadine. 2024. Improving resource targeting in Niger: Joint financial analysis and food system mapping. IFPRI Policy Brief November 2024. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159745

Country/Region

Niger

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Targeting; Food Systems; Cartography; Agricultural Production; Nutrition; Economic Policies

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

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Brief

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Report

Integrated and enhanced datasets on food security and household coping strategies in the G5 Sahel Countries (2018-2023)

2024Marivoet, Wim; Hema, Aboubacar
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Integrated and enhanced datasets on food security and household coping strategies in the G5 Sahel Countries (2018-2023)

This report describes the methodology and output behind the integration and enhancement of nationally representative household surveys on food security and coping strategies implemented in the G5 Sahel countries between 2018 and 2023. Whereas the data integration process involves the harmonization of variables across multiple cross-sectional surveys, the enhancement procedure focuses on adding shock data on multiple dimensions of political violence, food price anomalies, and climate- and weather-related events. Despite shortcomings in data quality and exhaustivity, the resulting datasets represent a unique playground to study the interaction between shocks and stressors on the one hand and household coping strategies and their impact on food security on the other hand.

Year published

2024

Authors

Marivoet, Wim; Hema, Aboubacar

Citation

Marivoet, Wim; and Hema, Aboubacar. 2024. Integrated and enhanced datasets on food security and household coping strategies in the G5 Sahel Countries (2018-2023). Initiative on Fragility, Conflict, and Migration – Metadata report. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Country/Region

Burkina Faso; Chad; Mali; Mauritania; Niger

Keywords

Africa; West and Central Africa; Sahel; Climate; Food Security; Households; Violence

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Source

Source record

Project

Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Report

Datasets

Dataset

ACLED Conflict Index G5 Sahel (2018-2023)

2024International Food Policy Research Institute
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ACLED Conflict Index G5 Sahel (2018-2023)

This dataset contains the ACLED conflict index, its classification, and related underlying dimensions and rankings of deadliness, danger, diffusion, and fragmentation for the 279 second-level administrative areas of Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad between 2018 and 2023. Following a slightly modified version of ACLED’s conflict index methodology, the dataset is generated based on ACLED’s curated dataset for Africa (5 January 2024) and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’s (OCHA) geographic dataset for the Sahel (including P-codes).

Year published

2024

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2024. ACLED Conflict Index G5 Sahel (2018-2023). Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139799

Country/Region

Mauritania; Mali; Burkina Faso; Niger; Chad

Keywords

Western Africa; Africa; Middle Africa; Conflicts; Migration; Fragility

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/t6ut9o Source record

Project

Fragility, Conflict, and Migration

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Dataset

Dataset

COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Niger, Round 2

2021International Food Policy Research Institute
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COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Niger, Round 2

This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Niger. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. To capture these various effects on household welfare, this phone survey was conducted with (around) 500 individuals randomly drawn from an existing list of phone numbers collected from previous household surveys. The same individuals were also interviewed during other rounds to generate a longitudinal panel allowing to analyze the impact of COVID-19 through time.

Year published

2021

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2021. COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Niger, Round 2. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AGKINY. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Niger

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Covid-19; Rural Areas; Men; Women; Health; Shock

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/agkiny Source record

Project

Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

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Dataset

Dataset

COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Niger, Round 1

2021International Food Policy Research Institute
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COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Niger, Round 1

This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Niger. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. To capture these various effects on household welfare, this phone survey was conducted with (around) 500 individuals randomly drawn from an existing list of phone numbers collected from previous household surveys. The same individuals were also interviewed during other rounds to generate a longitudinal panel allowing to analyze the impact of COVID-19 through time.

Year published

2021

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2021. COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Niger, Round 1. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AHULYK. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Country/Region

Niger

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Covid-19; Rural Areas; Men; Women; Health; Shock

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/ahulyk Source record

Project

Gender

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Dataset

Blogs

Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks
IFPRI Blog
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May 12, 2021

Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks

By Jawoo Koo, Claudia Ringler, Aniruddha Ghosh, and Carlo Azzarri

An analysis of 12 low- and middle-income countries shows potential pandemic hotspots.

Policy seminar: Building resilience by fostering gender equity at the household level
IFPRI Blog
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July 17, 2018

Policy seminar: Building resilience by fostering gender equity at the household level

By Grace Collord

Resilience and sustainability begin in the home, where development programs must address gender and decision making – a discussion.

Managing the tensions between herding and farming in the Sahel
IFPRI Blog
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April 27, 2017

Managing the tensions between herding and farming in the Sahel

By Thor Windham-Wright

As more residents of the Sahel region shift to from livestock herding to cultivating the land, research shows there are ways to manage both practices sustainably.

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Events

Assessing Progress toward Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Development Projects
IFPRI at External Event

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September 19, 2023, 1:30 – 4:30 pm

Assessing Progress toward Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Development Projects

Hybrid Event: September 19, 2023 – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM CEST. This event will provide a platform for implementers and partners to discuss approaches that have worked to empower women across projects and identify implications for future programming and scaling up.

Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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July 11, 2023, 9:00 – 10:30 am

Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger

Virtual Event: July 11, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EDT. WFP, IFPRI and IPD are jointly offering this webinar to disseminate the study’s findings on social cohesion in Niger and Burkina Faso to create an opportunity for interested actors to discuss their feedback and the way forward.

Policy Responses to the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in the Africa Region
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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November 16, 2021, 8:00 – 10:00 am

Policy Responses to the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in the Africa Region

Virtual Event: Nov 16, 2021 – 08:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST. This policy dialogue explores the gender-differentiated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on men and women in rural areas of selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 

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News

June 23, 2023 | In the News

WFP resilience program builds ‘buffers’ for Sahel in response to instability (UN News) 

WFP’s resilience programs in Burkina Faso and Niger in response to climate crises and anthropogenic shocks boosted food security and social cohesion, improving prospects for peace in both countries, new research shows, writes UN China.  The study, “Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger in the Sahel,” was published jointly by WFP, the International Food […]

June 21, 2023 | Press Release

WFP resilience programmes in Sahel act as buffer against instability, build peace and social cohesion – study finds

DAKAR – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)’s efforts to build resilience to climate-related and human-made shocks and stressors have been shown to boost food security, while also strengthening social cohesion and improving the prospects for peace in Burkina Faso and Niger – a new study reveals.  The “Sahel Social Cohesion Research in Burkina […]

April 12, 2022 | In the News

West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict (Telos)

Telos (France) published an op-ed by senior research fellows Antoine Bouet and David Laborde, and research fellow Fousseini Traoré about how food security in West Africa has been deteriorating since 2015.  Now, like the rest of the world, the region faces rapidly growing impacts from Russia’s war in Ukraine, including spiking food prices and disruptions […]

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Projects

COVID-19: Measuring Impacts and Prioritizing Policies for Recovery

COVID-19: Measuring Impacts and Prioritizing Policies for Recovery

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Land Resource Management for Poverty Reduction

Land Resource Management for Poverty Reduction

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Food Security Portal

Food Security Portal

Volatile food prices, climate-change-driven shocks, conflict, economic downturns, and high population growth continue to raise serious concerns about food security and nutrition in many parts……

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