IFPRI Projects

Agrifood systems (AFS) play a potentially central role in driving economic growth and transformation in low- and middle-income countries. From a national accounting perspective, an agrifood system can be defined as the sum of value added in primary agriculture and all agrifood-related processing, trade, and transport sectors. To better understand […]

Agrifood systems (AFS) play a potentially central role in driving economic growth and transformation in low- and middle-income countries. AFS can encompass the value added in not just primary agriculture but all agrifood-related processing, trade, and transport sectors up and downstream. Expansion of the AFS’s off-farm components is seen as […]

Provide locally relevant solutions to agriculture-related development challenges in Africa.

Alive & Thrive is a multi-year initiative that began in 2009 to combat global child undernutrition through interventions to support appropriate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. The initiative began with work in Viet Nam, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh as first-phase countries to demonstrate proof-of-concept models. The Alive & Thrive […]

Animal-source foods—such as meat, poultry, fish, and dairy—are important components of diverse diets and provide high-quality proteins and other essential nutrients that promote optimal growth and development. As populations and incomes grow, the global demand for animal-source foods is projected to increase substantially, particularly in many low- and middle-income countries. […]

ANEW will develop and validate measures of women’s empowerment for use by projects engaged in marketing agricultural products using collective-based organizations.

Public private partnerships (PPPs) have the potential to bring much-needed financial, technical, and managerial resources to the irrigation sector in Africa south of the Sahara and are explicitly identified in the food security and irrigation strategies of Tanzania and Ghana. However, previous experience with PPPs suggests that governments and communities […]

Nearly 93% of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is currently rainfed and a large share of the rural population is subject to the vagaries of climate to grow crops and support livestock production. Yields for both crops and livestock have stagnated or grown only slowly for decades; as […]

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Advancing the research agenda linking cash transfers and IPV, in order to effectively leverage cash programming for IPV prevention among poor and vulnerable women in low- and middle-income settings.