Africa RISING offers demand-driven, locally tailored, and resource-saving agricultural innovations for sustainable intensification to improve household welfare and at the same time enhance sustainability.
Focusing on strengthening the capacity of targeted ASEAN Member States (AMS) to develop policies and programs addressing food security and agricultural development and enhancing cooperation on R&D, food safety, and quality standards.
Achieving agricultural transformation in a country – the transformation of an agri-food system from a high prevalence of subsistence farming to high productivity, so that poverty falls and food security increases – is contingent on man
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.
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 stra
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.
The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) was established in 2009 to support national and regional efforts to improve cereal production growth in South Asia.
The Ceres2020 partnership works to provide the donor community with a menu of agricultural and food policy options for directing their investments, backed by the best available evidence and economic models
Trade restrictions in periods of uncertainty have contributed to food price crises, so this project tracks policies restricting food exports to highlight their impacts on prices, food security, and vulnerable people.
The primary objective of the project is to simulate and analyze the impacts of lifting quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice imports on the Philippine agriculture sector and to the economy.
Water is a shared resource, which requires coordination between resource users, but in many cases the necessary collective action to manage water does not emerge.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI) project aims to benefit farmers of Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania by improving effective use of scarce water supplies through
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 Simulator is an innovative, easy-to-use MS-Excel-based tool for assessing the potential short-term impacts of food price or household income shocks on food security and people’s diets.
International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) is a network of linked economic, water, and crop models.
Teaming with local partners on price data across 5 markets, IFPRI produced a food security monitoring tool to explore and compare prices of different food items in Papua New Guinea.
The benefits of irrigation go beyond impacts on yields, with large potential benefits for nutrition security, health, and women’s empowerment.
Land-based resources generate most of the income and subsistence goods for the poor in developing countries.