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How best to deliver aid programs in fragile contexts and whether donors can support resilience in these contexts are long-standing questions among development practitioners and scholars.
Food systems must go through a fundamental transformation if they are to become environmentally sustainable, generate nutritional benefits and improve economic equity.
Political and economic drivers of Sudan's armed conflict: Implications for the agri-food system
This study assesses the political economy of the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that brought out in April 2023, resulting in massive violence, displacement, and threats to food security.
2022 annual report
IFPRI’s 2022 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work in low- and middle-income countries and on global challenges.
The United Nations Food Systems Summit, aimed to move food systems transformation to the top of the global policy agenda.
Political constraints and opportunities for agricultural investment in Sudan [in Arabic]
قدمة تستعرض هذه المذكرة المشهد السياسي المعاصر في السودان،وكيفية تأثيرهعلى جدوى الاستثماراتفي القطاع الزراعيالتي تشتد الحاجة إليها لتحقيق التحول الزراعي في البلاد.
This note reviews Sudan’s contemporary political landscape and how it affects the viability of much needed investments central to the country’s agricultural transformation.
Clusters for high-value crops are ubiquitous in China and in African countries.
Measuring women’s empowerment and gender equality through the lens of induced innovation
Part of the Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies book series (EESIPS)
Accelerating technical change through ICT: Evidence from a video-mediated extension experiment in Ethiopia
Despite enthusiasm around applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to smallholder agriculture in many lower-income countries, there are still many questions on the effectiveness of ICT-based approaches.
Efforts to increase smallholder access to improved varieties and quality seed is often central to agricultural development, economic growth and poverty reduction in low-income countries.
The political economy of reforming agricultural support policies
Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide.
In 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping solemnly declared that China's poverty alleviation battle has achieved a comprehensive victory.
The challenge of the ‘youth bulge’ The global youth population is growing. Youth account for the largest share of the population in many countries. This phenomenon is often referred to as the ‘youth bulge’.
Honduras: The impact of COVID-19 and other shocks, and policy implications: Final report
Two previous reports (Díaz Bonilla, Laborde and Piñeiro, 2021, and Diaz-Bonilla, Flores, Paz, Piñeiro, and Zandstra, 2021) covered the evolution and impacts of the pandemic on food systems in Honduras until the time of their writings (which togeth
HarvestPlus improves nutrition and health by working with partners worldwide to develop and promote biofortified crops that are rich in vitamins and minerals, and providing leadership on biofortification evidence and technology.
The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in September of 2021, aimed to move food systems transformation to the top of the global policy agenda.
2021 Annual Report
IFPRI’s 2021 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work around the world.