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New Year, New Interactive: With a new interactive graphic, we are pleased to present some highlights of IFPRI’s 2022 research and outreach efforts.
We are grateful to all the partners who collaborated with us during the past year to address the complex challenges facing our food systems, including conflict, climate change, and COVID. As 2023 gets underway, we look forward to continuing to build evidence to end hunger and malnutrition. (Explore the Interactive)
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Transforming Kenyan Food Systems: The new Kenyan government faces a complex domestic and global environment, and it is widely expected to address key food and agricultural challenges with a new set of policies and programs. Our new policy brief presents 10 key research-based recommendations to leverage the country’s Bottom Up Economic Plan for food systems transformation. ( Read Policy Brief) ( Read Blog)
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Relatives, Neighbors, or Friends?: Dawit Mekonnen, Seid Yimam, Tiruwork Arega, and colleagues investigate the role of different social ties in information exchanges between farmers about new on-farm water management tools. They find that friendship and field proximity are key determinants of information flow. (Read Article)
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By Design: By reviewing institutional records and conducting interviews in 50 irrigation communities in South India, Sechindra Vallury, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and colleagues examine institutional arrangements for successful water governance through the lens of Elinor Ostrom’s “design principles.” (Read Article)
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Review and Renew: Through modeling, the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) estimates the survival, health, and nutritional impacts of scaling up maternal and child nutrition intervention coverage in LMICs. Hannah Tong, Ellen Piwoz, Marie Ruel, and colleagues performed an in-depth review of such interventions in LiST and made updates that enable users to better estimate the potential benefits of investing in nutrition. ( Read Article)
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Food Prices and Egyptian Diets: Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world food prices and trade shocks triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As part of CGIAR’s National Policies and Strategies Initiative, our researchers have been analyzing how these shocks affect poor households in Egypt.
Survey results indicate that many poor households cut back on consumption of some unsubsidized nutritious foods (meat, eggs, chicken, fish, milk), while consumption of subsidized foods (bread, sugar, oil, pasta) remained unaffected, suggesting an important role played by the national food subsidy program. The shift away from high-protein foods and toward less nutritious foods may contribute to the double burden of malnutrition and exacerbate the already high rates of overweight and obesity in Egypt. ( Read Blog)
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Introducing WEAGov: IFPRI is developing a new conceptual framework, the Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Systems Governance (WEAGov), to examine women’s empowerment across the agrifood system policy cycle—from framing a problem and adopting a solution to implementing and evaluating the policy. (Read Blog)
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Coordination Is Key: Promoting agricultural value chain efficiency and increasing gender inclusiveness in Papua New Guinea (PNG) should go hand in hand because when women participate in off-farm activities, the whole household benefits. On the IFPRI blog, researchers discuss new findings and why they matter for policymakers and stakeholders in PNG. (Read Blog)
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Analyzing Agency: New research shows that women in Tajikistan contribute significantly to agricultural production and marketing. But their involvement in the agriculture sector does not necessarily translate to more decision-making power in other areas, such as household economic issues or women’s health and mobility. (Read Blog)
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Remote Recommendations: A new picture-based advisories (PBA) service, developed by IFPRI, uses smartphone photos uploaded by farmers to provide individually tailored, expert agricultural advice. This system enables unprecedented levels of targeting and timeliness in remote agricultural extension. (Read Blog)
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Climate Resilience: Insights from research in Uganda detail the benefits and challenges of a video-based extension intervention aiming to increase women smallholders’ climate resilience capacities. The researchers conclude that videos should be integrated with other extension strategies to support farmers’ learning processes. (Read Blog)
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‘Very, very worried’: Another bleak year expected for food security: Subsidies are expensive and “ not smart,” said David Laborde, IFPRI senior research fellow, in an interview with Devex. “Other interventions, like increased access to extension services, technical expertise, and data about soil quality, are a better use of government funds.”
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Food price spike may fuel nutrition crisis: Nigeria’s The Nation features recent analysis by IFPRI’s Derek Heady and Marie Ruel, which finds that food inflation poses larger wasting risks for children of poor and landless rural households, exacerbating existing inequalities.
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On rice schemes, how Naveen Patnaik has been one step ahead of Centre: Indian Express, in an article about the progress Odisha state is making to move into the next leg of its National Food Security scheme, quotes the 2020 report published by IFPRI and the Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiative, which showed Odisha had made more rapid progress in reducing child undernutrition than several richer states.
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 No one is arguing for the total elimination of [agricultural] subsidies, but new approaches are required. Current support should be better targeted to reduce the cost of nutritious food, increase sustainability, make trade freer, and increase farmers’ income.” – Nelson Illescas, Director, INAI Foundation (Fundación INAI).
(Event: Harmful Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies) (Read Blog)
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