Smallholders often struggle to connect with actors in the middle of the food supply chain as a result of limited access to land and inputs and lack of capacity to scale up or implement new practices.
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African governments have made youth employment a policy priority, and African youth are demanding policies that improve their job prospects.
Regional developments
Building inclusive food systems to help reach the goal of ending hunger and malnutrition globally will require innovation and investment at the regional and country levels.
Refugees and conflict-affected people: Integrating displaced communities into food systems
Humanitarian interventions that have the greatest likelihood of success involve investing in local agrifood systems and including conflict-affected people in strategies for building, reviving, or strengthening these systems.
Redesigning food systems to be inclusive of poor and vulnerable people is a moral imperative.
Ensuring that women’s contributions to food systems are recognized—by their families, communities, policymakers, and society more broadly—and that women can make strategic choices about their involvement in food systems has benefits for all of soc
Food policy indicators: Tracking change
Decision-makers and policy analysts need solid evidence and timely information to develop and implement effective food policies.
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy developments and decisions of the past year, and looks ahead to 2019.
2019 Global food policy report: Regional developments: Central Asia
Food security in Central Asia continues to be largely shaped by international commodity markets and developments in the region’s major trading partners.
2019 Global food policy report: Regional developments: Central Asia [in Russian]
Продовольственная безопасность в Центральной Азии по-прежнему во многом определяется международными товарными рынками и событиями в странах, являющи- мися крупнейшими торговыми партнерами этого региона.
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy developments and decisions of the past year, and looks ahead to 2019.
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy developments and decisions of the past year, and looks ahead to 2019.
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy developments and decisions of the past year, and looks ahead to 2019.
Food policy indicators: Tracking change
IFPRI develops and shares global public goods, including datasets and indicators, as part of its mission to provide research-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition.
2018 was a somber and unpredictable year, not only for food and nutrition security, but also for global political stability and international development.
Employment and livelihoods: Connecting Africa’s rural and urban areas for rural revitalization
Improvements in rural employment opportunities, both on-farm and off-farm, are essential to rural revitalization.
Poverty, hunger, and malnutrition: Challenges and breakthroughs for rural revitalization
The first two Sustainable Development Goals call to end poverty, hunger, and malnutrition by 2030. This chapter looks at trends in rural poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and the potential to put the world on course to meet these SDGs.
Rural revitalization requires that all members of society, including women, be able to participate in and benefit from growth and transformation of rural areas.
Rural areas are critical to the provision of ecosystem services.
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, and considers challenges and opportunities for 2019.