The benefits of irrigation go beyond impacts on yields, with large potential benefits for nutrition security, health, and women’s empowerment.
Smallholder farmers in developing countries face substantial constraints that limit their ability to reach their production potential.
Globally, 49 million children suffer from acute malnutrition, also referred to as wasting (weight-for length Z-scores (WLZ) < -2). Acute malnutrition kills 875,000 children under the age of five annually.
The Integrated Food Policy and Research Program combines policy research with capacity strengthening to tackle all four aspects of food security – availability, access, utilization, and stability – in a holistic and sustainable approach
The International Dietary Data Expansion Project (INDDEX), is a collaborative effort between the Gerald J. and Dorothy R.
This program will identify and deploy innovative approaches to achieving resilient food systems in a context of climate change.
Land-based resources generate most of the income and subsistence goods for the poor in developing countries.
There is broad consensus in the economic literature as well as within Africa on the fact that data on trade across the continent are seriously lacking.
Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.
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
As a part of the “Enabling crop analytics at scale” program, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by Te
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 e
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.
Picture-Based Insurance is a new, innovative way of delivering affordable, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand crop insurance.
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
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
Brings together and disseminates data and evidence to support policy decisions for accelerating reductions in malnutrition in India, beginning at the state level.