Publications
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Brief
From promises to action: Strengthening global commitments to fight hunger and food insecurity
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Journal Article
African domestic supply booms in value chains of fruits, vegetables, and animal products fueled by spontaneous clusters of SMEs
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Journal Article
Famine in Gaza, questions for research and preventive action
Blogs
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Sudan’s food crisis deepens as conflict intensifies
A new famine warning.
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Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself?
The downsides of emergency trade measures.
Events
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32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists
The triennial International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE-2024), centred on the theme “Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems” is scheduled from August 2-7, 2024, in New Delhi, India. The conference offers a distinctive platform, providing a golden opportunity for the agricultural academic institutions and researchers to convene in person, exchange knowledge, and actively contribute to the […]
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Famines and Fragility: Making humanitarian, developmental, and peacebuilding responses work
Virtual Event: June 11, 2024 – 9:30 AM- 11:15 AM EDT. This seminar will take stock of what we know of key drivers about protracted food crises and persistent fragility and about the obstacles to successful HDP action.
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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.
News
Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record (The Conversation Africa)
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 […]
Crisis resilience ‘critical’ to stem rising hunger (SciDev.Net)
“A shift towards permanent ‘crisis resilience’ from short-term aid is crucial to mitigate increasingly frequent shocks to the global food system and tackle rising global hunger, say food policy researchers,” writes SciDev.Net in a piece featuring IFPRI’s 2023 Global Food Policy Research. “Crises, shocks, and volatility are no longer exceptions and may become the new normal,” says Johan Swinnen, […]
G-20 members stressed on increasing climate finance to help farmers take up adaptation measures, says Agriculture Secy (Press Trust of India)
The G-20 members stressed the need to increase climate finance to help farmers take up adaptation measures to mitigate the climate change impact on the farm sector, Indian Agriculture Secretary Manoj Ahuja said addressing the media on the concluding day of the G20 first Agriculture Deputies’ Meeting in Indore, India, according to a press-release by […]
Research
Projects
Awards
- Distinguished Research Professor, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Ecuador, 2019