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.

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.

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.

At a 2012 meeting of the World Health Assembly, all 193 UN member nations committed to achieving global nutrition targets by 2025. So far, the number of countries on course to meet the global targets is much too low.