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IFPRI's IMPACT model allows policy makers, analysts, and civil society to explore future scenarios for food security—including the impact of climate change on agricultural production and hunger—through an integrated system of linked economic, clim
The Global Hunger Index tracks progress in reducing hunger at the global and country levels.
Total factor productivity (TFP) provides a measure of the efficiency of agricultural production, allowing for comparisons across time and across countries.
Food policy indicators: Tracking change: Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)
ASTI provides open-access data and analysis on agricultural research investment and capacity in low- and middle-income countries as well as benchmarking tools that allow for tracking the performance of national agricultural R&D systems.
Food policy indicators: Tracking change: Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators (FPRCI)
The FPRCI database provides measures of quality and quantity of national capacity for food policy research in 33 developing countries.
SPEED tracks public expenditures in agriculture and other sectors by national governments across 109 developing countries and 35 developed countries.
The year 2017 was marked by increasing uncertainty amid mixed signs of progress. The world enjoyed a strong economic recovery, but global hunger increased as conflicts, famine, and refugee crises persisted.
As food and agricultural systems become increasingly globalized, the policy and governance issues related to food and nutrition security are becoming more complex.
IFPRI's flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2017, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2018 at the global and regional levels.
Despite global reductions in hunger, malnutrition, and poverty, food and nutrition insecurity remain a global challenge.
IFPRI Strategy
IFPRI's refreshed strategy addresses past challenges that persist while responding to new threats & opportunites related to food security & nutrition.
Important signs of progress in food security and nutrition and a commitment to sustainable development marked 2016.
Throughout the developing world, women, working together with men, play the dual roles of agricultural producers and household caregivers and are the key to securing household food security and nutrition.
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally, regionally, and by country.
Publications: Climate change
IFPRI’s mission is to provide research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. Recent publications share knowledge and data that can contribute to addressing the challenges of climate change.
2017 Global hunger index by severity
Note: For the 2017 GHI, data on the proportion of undernourished are for 2014–2016; data on child stunting and wasting are for the latest year in the period 2012–2016 for which data are available; and data on child mortality are for 2015.
IFPRI’s mission is to provide research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. Recent publications share knowledge and data that can contribute to improving food security and nutrition in Africa.
Le rapport de l’Indice de la faim dans le monde 2017 (GHI) – douzième édition - propose une mesure multidimensionnelle de la faim au niveau national, régional et international.