Publications
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Journal Article
Revisiting development strategy under climate uncertainty: case study of Malawi
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Journal Article
From food subsidies to cash transfers: Assessing economy-wide benefits and trade-offs in Egypt
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Working Paper
Small-scale irrigation protects farmers from climate-extreme events: Insights from the 2015/2016 ENSO in Ethiopia
Blogs
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AIM4C Summit Side Event: Foresight, climate change, and agrifood systems
New insights into developing country impacts.
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The Reference Diet Deprivation (ReDD) index: A new diet quality measure for more effective nutrition-sensitive policies
Assessing how household diets fall short.
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Rising commodities prices driven by the Russia-Ukraine crisis threaten to undermine Kenya’s economy, increase poverty
Modeling shows lowered GDP and agricultural production for 2022.
Events
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ICTforAg 2024: Localizing impact
Event: May 28, 2024 – 9:00am to 5:00pm EDT. This event explores the localization of ICT, responsible AI in agriculture, the potential for AI to increase farm profitability, empowering citizen science, and harnessing digital solutions for sustainable and regenerative farming practices.
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Drivers of Agrifood System Transformation: Lessons from Feed-the-Future Country Studies
Webinar: February 28, 2024 – 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM EST. IFPRI is participating in the “Drivers of Agrifood System Transformation: Lessons from Feed-the-Future Country Studies” webinar.
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Implications of El Niño 2023/24 for Africa South of the Sahara
Virtual Event: November 29, 2023 at 7:30am-9:00am EST. IFPRI in collaboration with USAID FEWS NET and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is hosting a presentation on the potential impact of the upcoming El Niño on the global agrifood system, with special emphasis on low-income countries in Africa South of the Sahara. The event will be organized around four short talks.
News
Integrated customer experience strategies essential to enterprise growth (Nigeria Communications Week)
Nigeria Communications Week published an article stating that a report from Nigeria’s Statistics Bureau showed that the economy contracted by 6.1% year on year by Quarter 2 of 2020 alone. This decline is Nigeria’s steepest recorded in the past decade. In addition, a report from IFPRI, Coronavirus: Lockdowns across Africa creating major economic loss showed that during the lockdown […]
COVID-19: For pregnant women, it’s a tougher battle (Daily Trust)
Daily Trust (Nigeria) reported on COVID-19, nutrition, and pregnancy. Poor diet is a common experience of low-income households during the lockdown. IFPRI said poor households in low and middle-Income Countries, like Nigeria, would have dramatic income effects due to “widespread unemployment resulting from COVID-19 mitigation measures” (see blogpost, COVID-19 lockdowns are imposing substantial economic costs on countries in Africa by James Thurlow). Also reflecting both […]
Coronavirus: Lockdowns across Africa creating major economic loss (The African Report)
The Africa Report published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellow James Thurlow who writes, “It is too soon to assess the full economic impacts that COVID-19 lockdowns will have on developing countries. But early research indicates that many African economies are significantly impacted and that poorer households are struggling.” He states that though it is early into the research of […]