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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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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 of the world.

The Food Security Portal, facilitated by IFPRI with support from the European Commission, provides open access to comprehensive, country-level information on food security issues and policy developments around the world.

The portal provides key data to monitor food security situations and food prices, as well as tools for policy analysis and capacity development. The portal aims to help policymakers and other stakeholders find appropriate and timely responses to address food insecurity.

The portal has two versions: the global Food Security Portal (FSP) and the Africa south of the Sahara Food Security Portal.

The Food Security Portal also supports IFPRI’s role in the Food Security Information Network (FSIN). This technical platform consists of 16 regional and global partners  and focuses on exchanging expertise and best practices on food security and nutrition analysis. The FSIN promotes independent and consensus-based information and highlights critical data gaps and also produces the annual Global Report on Food Crises.

Project duration: 2013 – Ongoing

Contact

Betina Dimaranan

Donors and funders

European Commission (EC)

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2024 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions

2024Food Security Information Network; Minot, Nicholas; Rice, Brendan; Vos, Rob
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2024 Global report on food crises: Joint analysis for better decisions

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 confirms the enormity of the challenge of achieving the goal of ending hunger by 2030. In 2023, nearly 282 million people or 21.5 percent of the analysed population in 59 countries/territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance. This additional 24 million people since 2022 is explained by expanded analysis coverage as well as deteriorating acute food insecurity in some countries outweighing improvements in others. Palestine (Gaza Strip) and the Sudan were the most devastatingly deteriorating food crises. The number of people experiencing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity rose to over 0.7 million – almost double the number of 2022 – with nearly 0.6 million of them in the Gaza Strip. Published by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) in support of the Global Network against Food Crises (GNAFC), the GRFC 2024 is the reference document for global, regional and country-level acute food insecurity in 2023. The report is the result of a collaborative effort among 16 partners to achieve a consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in countries with food crises and aims to inform humanitarian and development action.

Year published

2024

Authors

Food Security Information Network; Minot, Nicholas; Rice, Brendan; Vos, Rob

Citation

FSIN and Global Network Against Food Crises. 2024. GRFC 2024. Rome. https://www.fsinplatform.org/grfc2024

Keywords

Food Security; Nutrition; Conflicts; Displacement

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

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Report

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Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities

2024Mamun, Abdullah; Laborde Debucquet, David
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Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities

This paper investigates the drivers of export restrictions on agricultural products based on an original dataset developed at IFPRI. We focus on four food price crises when export restrictions (e.g., ban, tax, licensing etc.) were applied: the 2008 and 2010 food price crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2022 crisis associated with the Russia-Ukraine war. Although the justifications for such trade policies have been discussed in the literature, the ability to forecast their implementation remains understudied. The probit model used in this study suggests that the inflation rate has a higher power to predict export restrictions than do international commodity prices. The probability of export restrictions increases more when price change is measured from a reference level in the long interval than the short interval. Among the covariates, agricultural land per capita, commodity share in production and export, weather condition increases the chances of imposing export restrictions. Per capita income, population density, share of agriculture in GDP, urbanization rate, political economy indicators – all have a negative influence on this likelihood.

Year published

2024

Authors

Mamun, Abdullah; Laborde Debucquet, David

Citation

Mamun, Abdullah; and Laborde Debucquet, David. 2024. Role of international price and domestic inflation in triggering export restrictions on food commodities. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2246. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140687

Keywords

Agricultural Products; Commodities; Covid-19; Export Controls; International Trade; War; Trade Liberalization; Exports

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

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Assessing the vulnerability of national food security to international food price shocks: A new index

2024Minot, Nicholas; Vos, Rob; Kim, Soonho; Park, Beyeong; Zaki, Sediqa; Mamboundou, Pierre
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Assessing the vulnerability of national food security to international food price shocks: A new index

Recent spikes in staple food prices resulting from the invasion of Ukraine have once again highlighted the difficulty faced by low-income countries that rely on imports for a substantial portion of their food supply. To better understand which countries are most affected by higher world food prices, we propose a food import vulnerability index (FIVI). One version of the index describes the vulnerability of each country to higher world prices for each of 15 major staple foods. Another version of the FIVI is a national index, aggregating across the 15 commodities. Both are based on three components, the caloric contribution of the commodity(ies) in the national diet, the dependence on imports, and the level of moderate and severe food insecurity in the country. The values of the FIVI are calculated for 2020, the most recent year for which data are available. The results indicate that countries are most adversely affected by increases in the world price of wheat, rice, and maize, followed by sugar, and vegetable oil. This is because the five commodities listed are both major contributors to the diet in many countries and because countries often depend on imports for a large share of the domestic requirements of these foods. Yemen, Djibouti, and Afghanistan are most vulnerable to increases in world wheat prices, while Liberia, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau are particularly vulnerable to spikes in rice prices. In the case of maize, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Eswatini have the highest vulnerability score. These results should help policymakers and development partners target their efforts to reduce food import vulnerability through policies and programs to strengthen resilience.

Year published

2024

Authors

Minot, Nicholas; Vos, Rob; Kim, Soonho; Park, Beyeong; Zaki, Sediqa; Mamboundou, Pierre

Citation

Minot, Nicholas; Vos, Rob; Kim, Soonho; Park, Beyeong; Zaki, Sediqa; and Mamboundou, Pierre. 2024. Assessing the vulnerability of national food security to international food price shocks: A new index. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2243. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140444

Keywords

Staple Foods; Food Prices; Ukraine; Less Favoured Areas; Vulnerability; Food Security; Imports; Price Volatility

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

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Working Paper

Blogs

Shaping global agendas: The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s pathways to impact
IFPRI Blog
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March 14, 2024

Shaping global agendas: The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s pathways to impact

By Alix Underwood, Betina Dimaranan, Abdullah Mamun, and Rob Vos

Data tools provide key insights in a time of crisis.

The Russia-Ukraine war is exacerbating international food price volatility
IFPRI Blog
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March 30, 2022

The Russia-Ukraine war is exacerbating international food price volatility

By Brendan Rice, Manuel A. Hernández, Joseph Glauber, and Rob Vos

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

Rising food prices are a concern but no reason for panic yet
IFPRI Blog
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June 28, 2021

Rising food prices are a concern but no reason for panic yet

By Sara Gustafson, Joseph Glauber, Manuel Hernández, David Laborde, Brendan Rice, and Rob Vos

The COVID-19 pandemic and other factors driving inflation.

Donors

European Commission (EC)

Team members

Rob Vos

Rob Vos

Unit Director, Markets, Trade, and Institutions, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions

Soonho Kim

Soonho Kim

Senior Data Manager, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions

Brendan Rice

Brendan Rice

Research Specialist, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions

Teunis van Rheenen

Teunis van Rheenen

Senior Director, Science Group Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization, CGIAR; Director, Business Development and External Relations, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); & Acting Chief of Staff, IFPRI, Director
General's Office (DGO)

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