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Enhancing farm productivity and rural livelihoods through ICT interventions in Malawi
New opportunities as mobile phone use grows in farming areas.
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Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record (The Conversation Africa)
July 08, 2024
An op-ed by IFPRI’s Khalid Siddig and Rob Vos analyses Sudan’s ongoing severe food crisis: “After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record. The latest situation report, released on 27 June, reveals a grim picture: more than half the population of 47.2 million is […]
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Pivotal: Confronting hunger and poverty in Nigeria (Africa Independence Television)
July 08, 2024
Nigeria’s current economic crisis continues to attract media attention. On 26 June 2024 Africa Independence Television (AIT) hosted a panel discussion on the television program “Pivotal” focused on confronting hunger and poverty. The panel, moderated by Nabila Usman, included Kwaw Andam, Country Program Leader, IFPRI-Nigeria, Andrew Mamudu, Country Director, Action Aid, and Abdullahi Mohammad, Associate, […]
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Opportunities and challenges for coffee production in Papua New Guinea’s highlands
Survey insights on production, pests, and marketing.
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How does agricultural productivity growth affect agrifood system transformation goals? Exploring trade-offs using IMPACT
Co-organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight
Agrifood systems are complex and changing, so it is critical to explore different potential futures to inform decisions today that can put the world on a better path for livelihoods, health, and the environment. In the coming decades, changes in population, income, and diets will put increasing pressure on agrifood systems to meet evolving food […]
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IFPRI Insights: June 2024
Food Crisis Monitor: Gaza and Sudan; Topic in Focus: Climate Change; World rice prices and protection; New IFPRI.org; & more!
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Global crisis: 1.7 billion people in urban and peri-urban areas face food insecurity
July 02, 2024
New UN report highlights urgent need to strengthen urban and peri-urban food systems for global food security and nutrition.
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GFPR Southeast Asia Launch: Improving Diets and Nutrition through Food Systems: What Will it Take?
Improving Fruit and Vegetable Production and Consumption across the Food Value Chain
Across Southeast Asia, the double burden of malnutrition—hunger and micronutrient deficiencies, plus overweight and obesity—is widely evident, and is driven by unhealthy diets. Fruits and vegetables are an important part of healthy diets, but consumption of these healthy foods falls well below recommended levels across the region. The drivers of poor diets include the relatively […]
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Sudan’s food crisis deepens as conflict intensifies
A new famine warning.
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Risk of famine remains high in Gaza
After a reprieve, more dangerous conditions are reemerging.
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Improving Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition in Nigeria: Policies and Actions
The Nigeria presentation of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report
Despite significant progress in addressing hunger and undernutrition in the early 2000s, malnutrition, in all its forms, remains a major challenge in all regions of the world. Unhealthy diets remain the primary drivers of many forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Today, the number of people who […]
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Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition: The MENA launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report
This event is hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) as part of CGIAR’s National Policies and Strategies (NPS) Initiative
Unhealthy diets are a major driver of all forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity. Despite increasing global efforts to address malnutrition, as many as 3 billion people globally cannot afford healthy diets. The need to transform our food systems to ensure sustainable healthy diets for everyone is more urgent than […]
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2024 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
IFPRI is participating in the 2024 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting on July 28 – July 30, 2024. The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics. AAEA members are primarily employed by academic […]
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2024 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)
Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from Monday, July 8, to Wednesday, July 17, 2024, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. This includes the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from Monday, July 15, to Wednesday, July 17, 2024 as part of the High-level Segment of the […]
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NUTRITION 2024: Where the best in science & health meet
IFPRI is pleased to participate in the NUTRITION 2024 conference. The conference program will feature scientific symposia and educational sessions, unpublished oral research study presentations, poster sessions and flash talks. As well as award lectures delivered by distinguished leaders, professional and career development opportunities, and events with ASN’s vibrant scientific communities known as Groups Engaging […]