IFPRI Projects

Starting in 2016, IFPRI has led the provision of technical support to countries for next-generation National Agriculture Investment Plans (NAIPs) at the request of the African Union Commission (AUC) and NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA). Many of the first-generation NAIPs established under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) […]

As a part of the “Enabling crop analytics at scale” program, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by Tetra Tech’s AGDATA Acceleration Facility, IFPRI launched a new crop production analytics project, “Next-generation crop production analytics using smartphone 3D imaging and dynamic area sampling frames.” In this […]

Improving the quality of Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) used for Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling, the project develops toolkits and establishes common data standards, procedures, and classification systems for constructing and updating national SAMs

The Nudging for Good Project team validated FRANI for dietary assessment in adolescent girls in Ghana and Viet Nam against weighed records, the gold standard for dietary assessment, and the standard multi-pass 24 hour-recall method

Background: The World Food Programme (WFP) and IFPRI have been collaborating for several years to increase the impacts of WFP’s programs on diet, nutrition and well-being outcomes through improved program design and accompanying evaluations. As part of this collaboration, we are collaborating on operational research related to WFP’s Food assistance […]

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Papua New Guinea National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) have teamed up to support data-driven policy dialogue and formulation. This project is designed to provide an in-depth agricultural strategy report to provide the foundation for informing key agricultural development challenges and opportunities […]

Picture-Based Insurance is a new, innovative way of delivering affordable, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand crop insurance. By relying on visible crop characteristics derived from farmers’ own smartphone pictures, the project aims to minimize the costs of loss verification and detect damage at the plot level, making crop insurance more attractive and […]

Launched in 2016, this 3-year evidence-based policy support project, Assessing and Enhancing the Capacity, Performance and Impact of the Pluralistic Agricultural Extension System in Malawi, set out to analyze the demand for and supply of agricultural extension services in Malawi in order to design and undertake activities to strengthen the […]

Despite broad acknowledgement by the research community that large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is a cost-effective intervention to address micronutrient deficiencies, the uptake and implementation of LSFF regulations and supporting policies is highly variable across countries and across food different food vehicles. This project therefore examines the political economy dynamics—inclusive of […]

Brings together and disseminates data and evidence to support policy decisions for accelerating reductions in malnutrition in India, beginning at the state level.