Gender justice – a precondition for resilience
Women and girls in poorer countries are affected in particular ways by the multiple crises the world is currently facing.
Women and girls in poorer countries are affected in particular ways by the multiple crises the world is currently facing.
Climate change and conflicts co-exist in many countries with significant welfare and socio-environmental implications.
The current structure of the global food system is increasingly recognized as unsustainable.
The book emphasizes that the viability of reforms requires joint consideration of both the complexity of local, national, and global food systems and the increasingly polarized political and institutional contexts in which food policy decision-making occurs
The paper provides a review of the work on financing the transformation of food systems done by the author and colleagues at IFPRI.
The 21st Century has been marked by increased volatility in food prices, with global price spikes in 2007-08, 2010-11, and again in 2021-22. The impact of food inflation on the risk of child undernutrition is not well understood, however.
Nitrogen (N) is an important nutrient for crop growth. However, the overuse of N fertilizers has led to a series of devastating global environmental issues.
This paper addresses women's empowerment in agriculture, innovations in its measurement, and emerging evidence. We discuss the evolution of the conceptualization and measurement of women's empowerment and gender equality since 2010.
Since its launch in 2012, the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) has been widely used in USAID projects to prioritize and target activities that aim to promote women’s empowerment.
Food prices spiked sharply in 2007–2008, in 2010–2011 and again in 2021–2022.
The geographic distribution of natural ecosystems is afected by both climate and cropland.
Inclusive governance and policies can promote adaptation to climate change as well as resilience of women in the agrifood system.
An evolving literature evaluates the inferential and behavioral implications of measurement error (ME) in agricultural data. We synthesize findings on the nature and sources of ME and potential remedies.
The CGIAR biofortification program, HarvestPlus, was founded with the aim of improving the quality of diets through micronutrient-dense varieties of staple food crops.
We analyse whether global value chains (GVCs) reduce trade barriers in the agricultural and food sectors as they affect lobbying and government incentives.
This document describes the steps involved in generating the value of production in the Ag-Incentives database.
About the Excessive Food Price Variability Tool